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8/9/2016 11 Comments

Judy Penz Sheluk: Skeletons in the Attic

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Author Judy Penz Sheluk gives us a sneak peek of her new release, Skeletons in the Attic. 

A thirty-year-old mystery. A skeleton in the attic. Sometimes secrets are best left buried in the past.
 
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.”

Callie may think she’s ready, but that’s before she finds out that her father’s will includes a very strange condition: in order to inherit a house in Marketville—a house she hadn’t even known existed—she has to move in for the period of one year and find out who murdered her mother thirty years before, when Callie was six-years-old.

SKELETONS IN THE ATTIC is now available for pre-order on Amazon Kindle for the special introductory price of .99 (reg. $4.99). Find it here :http://getbook.at/SkeletonsintheAttic


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Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut mystery novel, The Hanged Man’s Noose, was published in July 2015. Skeletons in the Attic, the first book in her Marketville Mystery Series, will be released on August 21, 2016.
Judy’s short crime fiction appears in World Enough and Crime, The Whole She-Bang 2, 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.






















Are you ready to face the past with Callie? If so, you can find the book here: http://www.imajinbooks.com/skeletons-in-the-attic

11 Comments
Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/9/2016 07:04:52 am

Thank you so much for hosting me Catherine! I'm happy to answer any questions...the countdown for Aug. 21 is on. My bookmarks arrived yesterday :-)

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Karen McCullough link
8/9/2016 07:05:56 am

The book sounds terrific and your sample totally hooked me. Click!

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Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/9/2016 10:53:36 am

Thank you so much Karen! I actually wrote the beginning while waiting in my lawyer's office (I was there to revise my will, not have one read to me!). I appreciate the feedback and hope you enjoy the book.

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Ann Myers
8/9/2016 07:18:35 am

This sounds great, Judy! Can't wait to read it. :)

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Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/9/2016 10:54:29 am

Thanks so much Ann! I am counting down the days to August 21st!

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Steven link
8/9/2016 08:04:52 am

Sounds like an interesting read. The preview certainly draws the reader in. Definitely going to add this book to my list!

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Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/9/2016 10:55:33 am

Thank you, Steven. I hope you take advantage of the .99 sale and I especially hope you enjoy the book.

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Joanne Guidoccio link
8/9/2016 08:40:40 am

Hi Judy, Skeletons in the Attic sounds delicious. Looking forward to reading it. :)

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Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/9/2016 10:56:13 am

Thanks so much Joanne. I appreciate your support!

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Micki Browning link
8/24/2016 10:13:35 am

Great hook! I've already ordered my copy and I see I will have to move it up in ranking on my TBR pile!!!

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Judy Penz Sheluk link
8/24/2016 12:36:25 pm

Thanks so much Micki! I hope you enjoy it (and thank you for ordering).

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