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    Cold as Ice

    By Julie Mulhern

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    Ellison Russell's life resembles a rollercoaster ride. And rollercoasters make her ill.

    Her daughter Grace has a crush on a boy Ellison doesn't trust and she’s taken to hosting wild parties when Ellison goes out for the evening. Worse, the bank which represents Grace’s inheritance from her father may be in trouble.

    When a meeting with the chef at the country club leads to the discovery of a body, Ellison can’t afford cold feet. She must save the bank, find the killer, and convince Grace (and herself) that powerful women don’t need men to rescue them.

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    COLD AS ICE by Julie Mulhern - A Henery Press Mystery. If you love one, you’ll probably love them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenery Press
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781635112689

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    • 5/5
      4.5 stars! I love this series that takes place in the 70s. If is so wonderful to see families spend time together without cell phones, video games etc. taking the place of face to face communication. Once again, Ellison and her daughter Grace go back and forth from eye rolling to hugs. Having a sixteen year old daughter brings a lot of angst into her life. When Grace goes out to dinner with handsome detective Anarchy Jones, Grace allows Trip, her newest beau and what he things is god's gift to women, over with a few friends. It quickly turns into a wild party with kids spilling onto the lawn and in every room in the house. When Grace turns Trip down, he finds Dawn, his old girlfriend, whom he uses for what he wants. When the police are called, Ellison and Anarchy head to the house where Ellison is shocked to see what is going on. She hopes this will wise up her lovely daughter to Trip, but she does not want to forbid their relationship. Fast forward to Ellison finding Trip's mother dead a few days later at the Country Club. Add in some financial worries, embezzling, the usual partying and drinking of the Country Club set, and you are in for a delightful story.

      Ellison has this unique ability to stumble or be in the immediate area when dead bodies are found, and this story has her find two. She is a pretty together lady most of the time. She is taking care of her daughter, trying to date and decide who to date, is an accomplished artist and in this book gets involved in a situation at the bank that was left to her daughter by her dead ex-husband. She has her moments with "Mr. Coffee" her sounding board, but is quite a strong woman. I admire her guts, brains and even her parenting skills. Grace is your typical sixteen year old. She thinks her mother is old fashioned and doesn't really know what it is like to be a teenager. Between rolling her eyes and slamming doors, she really is listening to what her mother says and makes pretty good decisions for the the most part. The typical first love scenario where her heart is broken then miraculously healed, only to be broken again is well handled. I love how she deals with the attempted suicide of a classmate. Anarchy is wonderful. He cares for Ellison and deals with her foibles well. He worries about her investigating crimes and that she will be injured. He does get frustrated when he feels she is interfering with his investigation though. I really want these two to get together. I think they are real good for each other. This was quick read, I didn't want to go to bed last night until I finished. This is a mystery with a lot of humor and family drama thrown in for good measure. Thanksgiving Dinner will have you laughing and praying that you never have one like it. This is a wonderful addition to the series and if you are a cozy mystery lover, especially where there is also humor, you will love this one. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.
    • 4/5
      This is another great series that I love. A recently widowed woman with a teenage daughter who lives the country club life and somehow, someway keeps running into mysteries and murders.A fun, entertaining, cozy mystery series that has never failed to disappoint me.Thanks to Henery Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      This is by far my favorite series published by Henery Press (I'm sure I've already said that a million times). I can't get enough of it and luckily enough I never have to wait too long for the next book of the series.Ellison is back once again and to no one's surprise she finds another dead body. This time though not only is she caught up in the investigation as to who killed the dead person she also must find out just what is happening at the bank that is the inheritance left to her daughter from her late husband. Ellison's sense of humor is always a bright spot in this series. I also really enjoy the relationships she has with her friends and family. Any interaction between Ellison and her mother usually has me laughing. I was a teeny bit disappointed when it was revealed who the murderer was. I really wasn't extremely impressed with the reveal. What I did enjoy (surprisingly enough) was Ellison's discussion with Anarchy. That left me interested in seeing just what happens next in Ellison's life.Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the galley.
    • 4/5
      Ellison has a meeting at the country cub with the chef but while there, a body is found in the freezer. At the same time as she is being questioned about the victim Ellison is also uncovering problems at the bank which is her daughter's legacy from her father (deceased in The Deep End). Ellison resolves to figure out who is responsible for both the murder and the bank's troubles.I absolutely adore this series - the characters, the setting and the humor that is woven in along with the mystery. As for the timing - back in the 70's and the familial relationships - I never know when I'm going to just burst out laughing. Recommended to anyone who loves cozies, and a good laugh.
    • 5/5
      It's nearing Thanksgiving in Kansas City, and life is -sort of - getting back to normal for Ellison Russell. But while everything seems to be going along smoothly, it just...isn't. Her daughter Grace has been caught throwing a wild party in her absence, and while that may seem to be enough of a headache, it only gets worse when her bank president tells her the bank - her late husband's legacy to Grace - may be going under due to an unpaid loan.The loan, owed by Tom Michaels, is the father of a boy Ellison does not want Grace seeing. But each time she tries to call Tom, he's unavailable. And when she does get a chance to speak with his wife Laurie, she leaves before anything is resolved.But it's while she's at the country club planning a party for a friend when the sous chef opens the walk-in freezer to find Laurie's frozen body that it turns into a nightmare. Another body. The wife of the husband with a million dollar loan. And the mother of a boy with lax morals who seems to be interested in her daughter. Life is definitely not normal for Ellison Russell.While warned to stay out of this investigation by the ever-present homicide Detective Anarchy Jones, Ellison's maybe-boyfriend she doesn't want to say anything about the bank. Ellison needs to know if Laurie left life insurance, and for how much; hopefully enough to cover the loan; and she she needs the help of Hunter Tafft, her attorney who's also highly interested in her personally, to find out what can be done to place a lien, if possible; and, horror of horrors, she also needs to enlist the help of her intimidating mother, Frances.But it isn't going to be easy. She needs to stay under the radar of the police to conduct her own investigation - because if Tom is convicted of the crime they'll be no life insurance. To top it off, her late husband's sister Gwen is spending the holiday with them, and Gwen doesn't (and never has) approved of Ellison. This holiday may be more memorable than Ellison would like it to be.But then things get worse: Ellison discovers another body, one which may very well have ties to the first. With the suspect list dwindling, the body count growing, and Tom as the police's likely culprit, Ellison needs to work fast before the bank closes its doors forever...Once again, Ms. Mulhern has taken us back to 1974, a time with no cellphones or computers, and all information must be gathered the old-fashioned way: through the grapevine. It's a simpler time when people didn't depend on daily updates online, but through telephone calls, people needed to actually talk to one another, and Google was a thing of the future. She does this, and more, admirably.I found the book quite entertaining, with just enough components to make it realistic - a mother raising a sixteen-year-old daughter alone and trying to do her best; and adding that to the other storyline, weaving them together seamlessly and effortlessly; both essential to the book's plot. The narrative carries us along easily, rolling our eyes much as Grace did, at some of the wordplay between characters (who are all delightful, by the way), giving us an engaging tale of life in another place and time - albeit one littered with dead bodies along the way (but then again, isn't that why we're reading this series in the first place?)When we learn the identity of the killer and come to the end of the book, we see that actions have consequences, and consequences affect our lives, for good or bad. Whether right or wrong, the choices we make color our lives forever, and learning from them is the hardest -and maybe the most bittersweet - lesson of all.Although you might be tempted to peek at the ending, I urge you not to do so. Unfolding the story as it is written will add to a wonderful journey through words and images in your mind. Highly recommended and I look forward to 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.
    • 5/5
      Cold As IceByJulie MulhernWhat it's all about... This is my first experience with this author’s series. These books take place near a country club in the Midwest in the mid seventies. The main character...Ellison...has a reputation for always finding dead bodies. In this instance she has found two of them! Why I wanted to read it...I was really getting more and more curious about this series. Although I started with the sixth one I really wasn’t lost at all. The author was expert at explaining what happened to Ellison prior to this book. The author did this in an easy skillful manner. I never really had any confusion about what happened in the five books before this one. Reading this book just made me want to read all of the others...in fact I already bought the first two. What made me truly enjoy this book...Ellison is an engaging character. She has a demanding mother, an annoying sister in law, a cheating dead husband ( I can’t wait to read the book that tells what happened to him ), an engaging housekeeper, an eye raising daughter, a sweet dog and an interesting love interest who just happens to be the detective on this case. All of the above characters played a part in making this book clever and kind of fast paced. Why you should read it, too...Readers who enjoy very clever and engaging cozy mysteries with enough annoying characters to keep the pages turning...will thoroughly enjoy this book. I started with the sixth book but I am going back to read the first five...in their proper order. I have already purchased the first two. I received an advance reader’s ecopy from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I read this on my Kindle Oasis.
    • 5/5
      What a treat it is to be able to hang out with Ellison Russell and Co. and believe me it’s time well spent. This series is set back in the mid-seventies which gives it a nostalgic touch for us baby boomers. Poor Ellison can hardly catch a break, her eye-rolling sixteen-year-old daughter, Grace has taken up with teen lothario, Trip Michaels who has all the makings of turning into her late husband Henry who was a womanizer to the tenth degree. Ellison knows from experience that prohibiting her daughter from seeing Trip would only make him that much more desirable to Grace, so she can only hope he shows his true stripes before he breaks her daughter's heart too badly.Ellison has this unique ability to stumble or be in the immediate area when dead bodies are found, it seems she’s found another one in the country club kitchen. She didn’t find the body mind you, it was the sous chef, she just happened to be going over some menus with the chef. The woman they found happens to be the wife of Tom Michaels who comes from a very wealthy family and who is the only son of Lorna Michaels who happens to be one of Ellison’s mother Francis Walford’s oldest and best friends. Laurie is also the mother of Trip who has now landed on Ellison’s most wanted list and that’s a bad place to be. She finally accepts a date with the hunky homicide detective, Anarchy Jones and while they are eating dinner he gets a page that there is a disturbance at Ellison’s home. When they arrive it’s like a scene right out of the movie “Animal House”. Could things get any worse for Ellison? Yes, they can and do, she finds out that Grace’s inheritance is in dire straits and she’s got to get to the bottom of this situation and fast. She promises Anarchy that she will stay out of the murder investigation of Laurie Michaels but things keep pulling her in deeper and she has no choice but to find out who killed her Not to mention Thanksgiving is right around the corner and her sister-in-law, Gwen Russel is coming to town to visit with Grace. Ellison doesn’t cook, she has a wonderful housekeeper/cook who is more like a family member that takes on those pesky domestic duties. Ellison has a love affair with her Mr. Coffee and that’s about as far as her cooking skills go. This does cause a small concern because the last time Gwen was in town she was a Vegan. One good thing about Gwen is that she changes her whims like most people change clothes and this time she’s changed more than her diet. Ellison also invites Detective Jones over for Thanksgiving Dinner. Her parents are supposed to be on their way to visit her sister, who is married to the Condom King. The weather is getting worse and itineraries may change at the last minute so this may be a Thanksgiving Dinner that the Russel family will never forget. I could just keep going on and on about this book but I don’t want to give too much away. This is one series that can have you laughing even if you're are not at your best and I’m not at my best of health right now but it had me laughing. The dialog in this series is hard to beat, let me tell you. “Tom Michaels will be inundated with Bundt cakes and casseroles – egg noodles and tuna mixed with cream of mushroom soup or hamburger meat and peas in cream of celery. Someone should bake a ham. And, as if the poor man wasn’t suffering enough, he might even get a few Jell-O salads. Daisy made one with pimiento-stuffed olives, sweet pickles, and walnuts in lemon gelatin. And People said I was a bad cook? I shuddered thinking about those olives staring at me like lost souls locked in a jiggly prison.” Like I stated before I could go on and on about this series. I really think it’s one of my favorites. I would like to thank Henery Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this e-galley for my honest review.
    • 5/5
      This was another fantastic book in the Country Club Murder series that just keeps getting better and better. Set in 1974 Kansas City, Missouri, Ellison Russell, whose mother despairs of her proclivity of discovering bodies, is still trying to fit into her new life as a single mother to a teen and a professional artist. But again, she is embroiled in another murder after a sous chef at the Club faints after finding a body in the walk in freezer. One thing I really like about these books are the characters and the tough relationships they navigate as the times become more liberating. Ellison’s mother is the staunch hospital board/committee member matriarch, able to quell lesser beings with ‘the look’. Ellison’s daughter is 16, and Grace pushes her limits as a young woman coming of age in a different time than her mom. And I was glad to see that Detective Anarachy Jones has remained a constant, still unwilling to accept much of Ellison’s help with sleuthing. And Ellison, able to make a living as an artist, still tries to save the legacy of the bank late husband Henry ran, as it is Grace’s inheritance. While you could certainly go back and read these books in order (and you should), diving in right here would be a perfect introduction to everything that is so perfect about this series.