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The Deep End Paperback – February 17, 2015

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Book 1 of 14: Country Club Murders

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Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life.It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art. She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.As the body count approaches par on the seventh hole, Ellison knows she has to catch a killer. But with an interfering mother, an adoring father, a teenage daughter, and a cadre of well-meaning friends demanding her attention, can Ellison find the killer before he finds her?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084Z4Z87F
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (February 17, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8614990510
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches

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Julie Mulhern is the USA Today bestselling author of The Country Club Murders and the Poppy Fields Adventures.

She is a Kansas City native who grew up on a steady diet of Agatha Christie. She spends her spare time whipping up gourmet meals for her family, working out at the gym and finding new ways to keep her house spotlessly clean--and she's got an active imagination. Truth is--she's an expert at calling for take-out, she grumbles about walking the dog and the dust bunnies under the bed have grown into dust lions.

Action, adventure, mystery, and humor are the things Julie loves when she's reading. She loves them even more when she's writing!

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J. Swanson

Shocked I Was Not

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019

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Fun read. The 1970's setting reminded me of my mother's life and how happy I am to have escaped that whole, claustrophobic country club culture. That said, the heroine is already beginning to chafe against her constricted life and behavior when she bumps into a dead body (and only her first) on an early morning swim in the aforementioned country club pool.
While I did figure out whodunit by the last quarter of the book (and the resolution was both reasonable and well played) that really wasn't the point. Engaging characters, a funny stream of interior dialogue, excellent writing, and virtually error-free.
As for those reviewers who were shocked, I tell you shocked by the SM references in the book, no one who happily survived almost any made for HBO movie in the last five years need fear offense. SM is central to the plot, but any description is very brief (maybe a paragraph) and not graphic in the least.

217 people found this helpful

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B. A. Orzel

Ugh!

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2019

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I’m sorry I even paid $2.99 for this book. The S & M theme was just a little too descriptive for me. I only got about 25% in, and had to delete it.

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Audrey Anderson

Solid Story

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2018

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Ellison is an artist to her mother's dismay. Ellison's banker husband likes kinky sex and gets it elsewhere. On an early morning swim Ellison bumps into a corpse. Turns out to be one of the neighborhood country club crowd - one her hubby was running around with. Then another, and another - one is her husband left behind her car whom she runs over. Once again she's questioned by the handsome detective, balled out by her mother for stirring up yet more gossip. Meanwhile, she is hiding a pile of dirty pictures and information she found in her hubbys safe and snuck out - he was blackmailing people. She turns over to her handsome attorney the information making him promise not to give it to the police - all except for one envelope which has her father's name on it. Good story, good ending, good first in a series.

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A devour-able cozy, with just a touch of the exotic life, murder and mayhem, and will hook readers into the CCM series!

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017

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It’s 1974 and Ellie Walford Russell is doing fine, except for the fact that her husband is missing and his girlfriend is dead.

Ellison Walford Russell is a married housewife and artist living in Kansas City during the early summer of 1974. Following her desire to paint has left her in the midst of an unpleasant marriage, held together for the sake of her young teen daughter, Gracie. Ellison was raised in the upper fringe of society, where expensive designer clothing and tennis games at the club are the usual topics of discussion, the place where her domineering mother Frances and her estranged husband Henry would like her to stay. But when something happens to one of the least-liked women in town, even Ellison’s passion for art won’t be able to protect her from the dark and swirling clouds of gossip and intrigue.

Julie Mulhern’s book is a well-handled whodunit cozy mystery that thoroughly entertains. The main character, Ellison, or “Ellie,” sees colors and patterns and as an artist describes things using a rich and vivid vocabulary. It’s 1974, a time period when many wives struggled to be independent of their husbands and some husbands, like Ellie’s, didn’t like the change. Mulhern does a great job in setting an accurate sense of the historic period, complete with references to drinking a specific diet soda, discussing Watergate at cocktail parties, and women who might wear purple Muumuu dresses. But the era doesn’t become the centerpiece. Rather, it’s more like important background discussion, never distracting from the plot at hand but reminding readers of the changes for women during that time period, changes mirrored in Ellie’s personal growth. Ellie’s mother, Frances, and young daughter, Gracie, serve as other fine and subtle examples of society’s shift across a single generation.

The men in Mulhern’s work also have an interesting time. Ellie’s husband, unable to accept her growing artistic skills and independence, turns his controlling impulses into ones of humiliation and infidelity. Is it any wonder that Ellie’s world begins to spin out of control when her husband’s mistress is murdered and he is nowhere to be found? It seems everyone has something to say and advice to give, as more and more things go wrong.

Two men, in particular, are at odds each certain they know what Ellie should be doing. One is an old friend, a lawyer, a handsome man her mother would like to see her date. His name is Hunter Tafft, a tall and distinguished fellow who is a member of the same club. The other is a police detective, Officer A. Smith, with deep brown eyes and deeper convictions, a man who makes her blush when she’d least like to. Using this trio of characters, Mulhern sets Ellie not only in the middle between two strong-minded men but between two levels of society and two levels of the law. The tension is fruitful.

Overall, "The Deep End" is a book that will engage the reader in every chapter as they seek to solve the many crimes, both present and implied. Ellie Russell is a colorful person in more ways than one, and the other characters are more than a background to her, adding depth to the story in unusual ways.

Funny, compassionate and endearing "The Deep End" is a well-crafted cozy, with just a touch of the exotic life, murder and mayhem, and the Bundt cake brigade to hook readers into devouring the rest of Julie Mulhern’s series, The Country Club Murders.

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JLocke

Morning at the club

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019

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Five stars isn't enough to rate this book! Once you remember the "good old days" of the seventies with no cell phones, Nixon in trouble, harvest gold appliances and Starsky and Hutch to watch on tv, the fun and suspense starts! The author does a wonderful job of creating characters so real you think you know them and wish you could! There is no lack of action, suspense or heartache and the plot is very well done. The surprising dry humor makes this stand out as one of the best books I've read this year!

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May be my new favorite author!

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017

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I wasn't familiar with this author and wasn't sure about this book, so I have had this book on my Kindle for a while as I finished reading other series. Finally, one day I had nothing left and thought I would give this a try. Let me just say that if I had known what I was missing, I would have moved this to the top of the list. I was blown away by this book. I read "country club life in the 70s" and had a totally different picture in my mind of what this book would be. This author is smart, with very funny subtle humor and societal observations. The main character is incredible. I want to be her friend. A warning to those who are looking for light and fluffy - this is not that book. This book touches on deep issues and dark facets of society, but does so in a way that didn't leave me with bad feelings. I lost sleep over this book, but for the right reasons - I couldn't bear to put it down!

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IAN

Fun and funny new series...not to be missed!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2016

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Tripping back to the past, to the early 70's in this new mystery series.

For the Kansas City's well heeled gentry, membership to the Country Club is part of the norm. Where gossip is past over coffee or cocktails and no past is ever a secret!

It's 1974, and when Ellison Russell's early morning swim in the Country Club pool is cut short with the discovery of Madeline Harper's dead body floating in the pool. Ellison's life is turned upside down.

Madeline was Ellison's husband Henry's mistress (one among many). Not that it bother Ellison, as she had given up on her marriage some time ago. Her major concerns are her daughter and her art.

But Madeline's murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.

With the body count going up, Ellison need to finds the answers before the killer sends her to permanent slumber!

Loved this fun and funny new series. With a great set of characters, well plotted and written. This series is not to be missed!

Ann

Unputdownable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2022

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Not sure if that is a real word but I read this in 2 days. So much going on. Sadly I did guess the killer but it is not obvious.

Kindle Customer

I loved this book so much

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2016

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Oh, how the other half live...and die! Ellison Walford Russell goes for her morning swim at her country club and bumps into the woman who has been having an affair with her husband. Most unfortunately, the woman is dead! An absolutely hilarious whodunnit with the most lovable and detestable characters you can imagine. I loved this book so much, I bought two and three in the series! Brilliant!

Kindle Customer

Perfect read for a rainy Sunday afternoon

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2022

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I really enjoyed this novel. Good plotting, lovely heroine, and a good ending. I'll look for more from this author

Anonymouse

Read the whole book in one sitting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2022

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So many twists and turns. An easy read but absorbing. I will be looking out for more books by Julie Mulhern.