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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.”
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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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