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I was favorably impressed enough by the entertainingly written sample chapters to purchase the book, but then an S&M theme came along. Had I known, and at the risk of sounding like a prude, I probably wouldn't have bought it. I kept reading and developed a sympathy for the main character and her difficulties. Except for the aforementioned sex-business thread, it was an entertaining mystery. Good character development and good, almost lyrical descriptions.
Two points for the author: 1) "y'all" in the South always refers to several people, not one person and 2) the term is "gaffe," not "gaff." (I looked it up to be sure.) All in all, a pretty good book.


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If you are looking for a wicked sense of humor along with some deviation wrapped in a whodunit..this is the book for you!
Julie Mulhern, I thought my family was the only one to refer to my mom's hamburgers as 'hockey puck's' so coined by my Dad or so I thought!
Any way this is the first entry in the Country Club Murders and it is a off to a great start. Nothing like going for an early morning swim to give your adrenalin a shot by doing the Australian crawl and hitting a dead body! And folks-we are off to the races. This is a fun and easy read, fraught with candidates good and bad who offer help a damsel in distress. A family dynamic that many can relate to and yes, some off the charts road trips in how some people spend their time in Middle America for 's...'s and giggles. I adored this book, have ordered the next one and it makes a great beach read, certain to keep your attention, even if you are easily distracted.
I wasn't familiar with this author and wasn't sure about this book, so I have had this book on my 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!
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.
Julie Mulhern had me at the first sentence “My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses.” And the year 1974. What was I doing in 1974? Not swimming with corpses. But all of a sudden, I was back in 1974, drinking Tab, watching "Kojak," thinking about Watergate, and wearing Halston Couture (in my dreams) thanks to her period detail. Mulhern cracks the whip (in more ways than one) with great pacing that makes you hate to put this book down. I love mysteries that keep me guessing "whodunnit?" until the last pages, and The Deep End did. With country club characters that reveal more than they know, a dark edge, and the possibility of romance for main character Ellison, Mulhern has created a fascinating, believable world that I can't wait to visit again in her next Country Club Murders novel!
I was favorably impressed enough by the entertainingly written sample chapters to purchase the book, but then an S&M theme came along. Had I known, and at the risk of sounding like a prude, I probably wouldn't have bought it. I kept reading and developed a sympathy for the main character and her difficulties. Except for the aforementioned sex-business thread, it was an entertaining mystery. Good character development and good, almost lyrical descriptions.
Two points for the author 1) "y'all" in the South always refers to several people, not one person and 2) the term is "gaffe," not "gaff." (I looked it up to be sure.) All in all, a pretty good book.