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    Watching the Detectives

    By Julie Mulhern

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    Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse. Too bad she finds Mrs. White in the study killed with a revolver. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the dining room killed with a candlestick.

    With so many bodies, is it any wonder Detective Anarchy Jones' new partner considers Ellison a suspect?

    With the country club gossips talking a mile a minute, an unexpected cocktail party, a visit from Aunt Sis, and a romantic decision, Ellison hardly has time to think about murder. Unfortunately, the killer has plenty of time to think about her.

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    WATCHING THE DETECTIVES by Julie Mulhern - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781635112122

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    • 5/5
      I loved this book and the series. Ellison had a knack of finding dead bodies, often on her own property. This book is no exception. When she gets a call from Aggie, her housekeeper about her car breaking down, she heads off to the local shopping center to get her. She leaves her decorator in the house to continue coming up with ideas while she is gone. Well, you guessed it, when she gets back home less than half an hour later, she is dead in the den with a bullet in her head. Of course Ellison calls Anarchy, the handsome detective that she has a budding relationship and he shows up with his new partner. There is a lot going on in this story, with another body along the way and some women who also end up in the hospital.

      The mystery kept me guessing until the end, which I always like. This book was not just a mystery. This series takes place in the 70s and at that time, police and medical practitioners felt that physical abuse between spouses was a personal matter and they did not intervene. This was an era where women just took it when their husband or boyfriend hit them, it was almost a joke about women hiding their black eyes behind the huge sunglasses of the day. Unlike many, the woman who was abused in this book got out, and her husband's family stood behind her, not her husband who was their relative. It was due to Ellison's persistence that she finally spoke up. So kudos to Julie Mulhern, for dealing with this topic and maybe this will help someone now break the silence and get out. The setting is also very nostalgic to those of us who grew up during that time so it adds another enjoyable dimension. I suppose you could read this book without reading the rest of the series, but who would want to. This is one of the best cozy series I have read.
    • 4/5
      Book received from NetGalley.I loved this book, while the mystery was great and it took me almost to the end to figure out whodunnit, those weren't the reasons for my high rating of the book. Part of it was due to nostalgia, the books are set in the 1970's and it brought back quite a few things of my childhood, a big plus in my book. The other reason was the fact one of the subplots dealt with an extremely tough topic, made even worse by the time the book was set in. The 1970's was an era where women just took it when their husband or boyfriend hit them, it was almost a joke about women hiding their black eyes behind the huge sunglasses of the day. Unlike many, the woman who was abused in this book got out, and her husband's family stood behind her, not their relative when she finally broke her silence after ending up in the hospital. So kudos to Julie Mulhern, for dealing with this topic and maybe this will help someone now break the silence and get out.
    • 4/5
      I love this series, I love these characters and I loved this writer and this book! Ellison Russell seems to always be at the wrong place at the wrong time and her mother is continually tell her to stop finding dead bodies because it is not the thing that decent people do. But how can she avoid it when the body is her own house?Ellison has decided to redecorate her late husband's sanctuary and has the decorator there but she is called away for a short period of time and when she returns, well Mother was not pleased. The decorator was dead. Mother also forced Ellison to hold a dinner party at her home days later, and well, Mother definitely wasn't pleased this time either. The book was well-written, entertaining and the mystery keeps you scrambling for clues.SPOILERThe best part for me was the references to the game of Clue - Mrs. White in the Library with the revolver, Mr. White in the Dining Room with the Candlestick. I laughed so hard!
    • 4/5
      I'm starting to think that this series could never disappoint me. I cannot tell you what you I felt when I saw that there was a new book in this series. Needless to say I enjoyed this one as much as I have the others in the series.Ellison is such a great character to follow. I love her sense of humor and how strong a woman she has become. She also can't help but find dead bodies which provides endless annoyance for her mother and ends up putting Ellison in danger.I figured out what the first deceased character had been doing that caused her to be killed a little before it was revealed but I was still wrong about who killed her. Ellison and I were both surprised in the end.The end with Ellison and Anarchy left me with hope for a future romance between them. But then again I've been hoping for a couple of books now.Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the galley.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I loved the Mrs. White dead in the study and Mr. White dead in the dining room part of it. The main character, Ellison, is definitely someone I would have to think twice about being her friend. It seems everywhere she goes the bodies start piling up.There are several quirky characters that really made the story appealing. There is also an underlying theme that is very serious and plays a major role in this cozy mystery. This was my fourth book by this author and she has yet to disappoint me. This series is fun, enjoyable and entertaining.Huge thanks to Henery Press for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 5/5
      Ellison has barely had time to recover from the horrifying clown events of the last book, when the decorator she hires to finally redo her late husband's study is killed right in her own home. You can pretty much feel and hear her mother's sigh of disgust when that news spreads. I chuckled out loud at the references to the game Clue, the decorator being the unfortunate Mrs. White. The country club set has all used Mrs. White, and that's how Ellison manages to eventually tie things together, with husbands and wives both releasing bits of information. There's a bit more serious side the story involving domestic violence and in keeping with the Seventies theme, Mulhern really illustrates how hidden a lot of that activity was, particularly among women of that social stature. As usual, the bits of repartee between Detective Anarchy Jones and Ellison are some of the best parts of the story and I hope we don't have to wait long for another one of these smart mysteries.
    • 5/5
      Ellison Russell lives in a wealthy Kansas City suburb with her daughter Grace. She's been widowed for six months, and has decided to turn her late husband's office into a study, so is looking for a decorator. At the request of her attorney Hunter Tafft she's allowing his ex-wife Khaki White to offer a bid, even though she knows she won't hire her. After all, she is dating Hunter, and feels it would be awkward to have his ex- (remarried) wife in her home. When Khaki shows up, she begins making asides regarding Hunter that put Ellison on edge. So when Ellison receives a telephone call from her housekeeper Aggie, it's a welcome respite.It turns out Aggie's car Bess has finally died, and she needs Ellison to pick her up. Ellison leaves Khaki to measure the room and tells her she'll be back shortly, and to just lock up behind her when she leaves. That should be the end of her seeing Khaki...but instead it's just the end of Khaki. When Ellison and Aggie return home, she finds her front door ajar, and Khaki in the study, shot between the eyes. In shock, she calls Detective Anarchy Jones for help.When Anarchy arrives, it's with his new partner Detective Peters, and he thinks everyone - including Ellison - is a suspect. She has no idea who killed Khaki but she knows it wasn't herself or Hunter, (even if her neighbor did see a white Mercedes like Hunter's in her driveway). As it is, she and Grace need to evacuate their home while the police check the crime scene, and if this isn't bad enough, her mother Frances - who is having a disaster in her own home - has volunteered Ellison's home as a replacement for a benefactors' party - in two days' time.With her hands full of disasters and trying to keep everything together, she allows her mother her way and it appears the party is going just fine. If things were bad before, they're about to get worse. Ellison, making her way around her home greeting her guests, notices the lights are off in the dining room and turns them on only to see another dead body - this time it's Khaki's husband, and someone has done him in with one of her grandmother's candelabra. But as she's caught up in two murders, you'd think it would be enough, but that's not all. She has friends who are hiding secrets, and not little ones, either. Secrets that could not only get them killed, but Ellison as well...Julie Mulhern has done it again and given us a captivating mystery to sink our teeth into and happily devour. Her characters are so full of life, so animated, that we are drawn to them instantly. Even those we would rather not spend any time with, such as Frances (don't judge - Ellison doesn't want to spend time with her, either) have distinct and vibrant personalities.We are transported back in time to the 1970s - Bell bottom pants, colorful (very) clothing, no cell phones or Internet, and ex-baseball player Joe DiMaggio was hawking Mr. Coffee on televisions all across America. It is a world Ms. Mulhern feels comfortable in, and by extension, makes us comfortable in it, too.What she has given us is a mystery not only with two murders; there is also something darker going on, and we find ourselves involved in situations that have no easy exit; mistakes that are made that can change the life of anyone forever. When Ellison starts questioning her friends - those that used Khaki as a decorator - she becomes embroiled in a type of conspiracy, and one that has roots closer to her own home than she could ever have imagined.With her life in such turmoil, she makes another decision that could change her life, and time will tell whether it was the right decision or not. I have to wonder if it was based on being new, different, a rebellion of sorts; watching how differences collide will be interesting, to say the least.When the ending comes, and we find out the murderer, it comes as a surprise - not the reasons why, but who the killer turned out to be. It's a twisted sort of person who can justify things in their own mind that aren't justifiable at all. Watching the Detectives was thoroughly entertaining, delightful to the extreme, and alternately funny and piquant; and even sometimes a little sorrowful. Highly recommended, and I eagerly await the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      I love the Country Club Murders series as much for Elison as for the excellent mysteries. (And it doesn't hurt that each title is a line from a song from my youth.) Set in 1973 Kansas City, Missouri, this series stands out. I highly recommend you give it a try. Start with The Deep End.