by
Judy Penz Sheluk
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GENRE:
Mystery
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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
let out a theatrical courtroom sigh, well practiced but over the top
for his audience of one. “You haven’t really been listening, have
you, Calamity?”
I was
forced to admit I had not, although he now had my undivided
attention. Marketville was a commuter community about an hour north
of Toronto, the sort of town where families with two kids, a collie,
and a cat moved to looking for a bigger house, a better school, and
soccer fields. It didn’t sound much like me, or my father.
“You’re
saying my father owned a house in Marketville? I don’t understand.
Why didn’t he live there?”
Leith
shrugged. “It seems he couldn’t bear to part with it, and he
couldn’t stand living in it. He’s been renting it out since
1986.”
The year
my mother had left. I’d been six. I tried to remember a house in
Marketville. Nothing came to mind. Even my memories of my mother were
vague.
“The
house has gone through some hard times, what with tenants coming and
going over the years,” Leith continued. “I’ve done my best to
manage the property for a modest monthly maintenance fee, but not
living nearby…” He colored slightly and I wondered just how
modest that fee had been. I glanced back at the photo of his vibrant
young family and suspected such treasures did not come cheap. There
was probably alimony for the other trophy wives as well. I decided to
let it go. My father had trusted him. That had to be enough.
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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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