SKELETONS IN THE ATTIC
by Judy Penz
Sheluk
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GENRE: Mystery
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BLURB:
Calamity
(Callie) Barnstable isn’t surprised to learn she’s the sole beneficiary of her
late father’s estate, though she is shocked to discover she has inherited a
house in the town of Marketville—a house she didn’t know existed. However,
there are conditions attached to Callie’s inheritance: she must move to
Marketville, live in the house, and solve her mother’s murder.
Callie’s
not keen on dredging up a thirty-year-old mystery, but if she doesn’t do it,
there’s a scheming psychic named Misty Rivers who is more than happy to expose
the Barnstable family secrets. Determined to thwart Misty and fulfill her
father’s wishes, Callie accepts the challenge. But is she ready to face the
skeletons hidden in the attic?
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EXCERPT:
Leith Hampton placed the will in front of him,
smoothing an invisible crease with a well-manicured hand, the nails showing
evidence of a vigorous buffing. I wondered what kind of man went in for a
mani-pedi—I was surmising on the pedi—and decided it was the kind of man who
billed his services out for five hundred dollars an hour.
He cleared his throat and stared at me with those
intense blue eyes. “Are you sure you’re ready, Calamity? I know how close you
were to your father.”
I flinched at the Calamity. Folks called me Callie
or they didn’t call me at all. Only my dad had been allowed to call me
Calamity, and even then only when he was seriously annoyed with me, and never
in public. It was a deal we’d made back in elementary school. Kids can be cruel
enough without the added incentive of a name like Calamity.
As for being ready, I’d been ready for the past
ninety-plus minutes. I’d been ready since I first got the call telling me my
father had been involved in an unfortunate occupational accident. That’s how
the detached voice on the other end of the phone had put it. An unfortunate
occupational accident.
I knew at some point I’d have to face the fact that
my dad wasn’t coming back, that we’d never again argue over politics or share a
laugh while watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory. Knew that one day I’d
sit down and have a good long cry, but right now wasn’t the time, and this
certainly wasn’t the place. I’d long ago learned to store my feelings into
carefully constructed compartments. I leveled Leith with a dry-eyed stare and
nodded.
“I’m ready.”
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
An
Amazon International Bestselling Author, Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery
novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose (Barking Rain Press), was published in July 2015.
Skeletons in the Attic (Imajin Books), the first book in her Marketville
Mystery Series, was published in August 2016.
Judy’s
short crime fiction appears in World Enough and Crime, The Whole She-Bang 2,
The Whole She-Bang 3, Flash and Bang and Live Free or Tri.
Judy
is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Canada, International
Thriller Writers and the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
Find
Judy on her website/blog at www.judypenzsheluk.com, where she interviews other
authors and blogs about the writing life. You can also find Judy on Facebook
(facebook.com/JudyPenzSheluk),
Twitter (@JudyPenzSheluk) and on her Amazon author page,
amazon.com/author/judypenzsheluk.
SKELETONS
IN THE ATTIC is on sale on Amazon Kindle from December 1 through December 7 for
.99 (reg. price $4.99). http://getbook.at/SkeletonsintheAttic
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