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INTRIGUING PLOT, FASCINATING CHARACTERS... "Part mystery, part women's fiction, part poetry, Mulhern's debut, The Deep End, will draw you in with the first sentence and entrance you until the last. An engaging whodunit that kept me guessing until the end!" - Tracy Weber, Author of the Downward Dog Mysteries Sub-Genre…

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2 authors picked The Deep End as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love Mulhern’s references to the 70s and a snooty country club entourage. I love the way she describes men and whether they live inside or outside of the lines, capturing their quirks perfectly. I love the depiction of a simpler time of life with no cell phones or the internet, where everything felt more personal and connected.

The Deep End is funny, pensive, and suspenseful. The plot is intriguing, the characters are unique and fascinating.

The setting is 1974 Kansas City. Julie takes us back to this era with all its fun and quirkiness and introduces us to the elite world of the Country Club along with the people who share the same problems as the rest of us.

The first paragraph will hook you! “My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses. If it did, I’d give up swimming for something less stressful like coaxing cobras out of baskets or my mother out of bed before ten.”   

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