White in the dining room killed with a candlestick. Things go from bad to worse when she finds Mr. White in the study killed with a revolver. Watching the Detectives – Ellison Russell wanted a decorator, not a corpse.Now death wears a red nose and Ellison is up to the blood-stained collar of her new trench coat in costumes, caffeine, and possible killers. So thinks Ellison Russell, single mother, artist, and reluctant sleuth. Especially murderous knife-wielding clowns. Send in the Clowns – Haunted houses are scary enough without knife-wielding clowns.But why? And can Ellison find the killer before he strikes again? But when her house is fire-bombed, she’s shot at, and the person sitting next to her at a gala is poisoned, she must face facts.

Clouds in My Coffee – When Ellison Russell is nearly killed at a benefactors’ party, she brushes the incident aside as an unhappy accident.Worse, a killer has Ellison in his sights, her newly rebellious daughter is missing, and there’s yet another body in her hostas. Too bad an epically bad blind date, a vindictive graffiti artist, and multiple trips to the emergency room keep getting in the way. Guaranteed to Bleed – With his dying breath, Bobby Lowell begs Ellison Russell, “Tell her I love her.” Unable to refuse, Ellison struggles to find the girl the murdered boy loved.The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes-kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. The Deep End – It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art.

In 1974, her husband’s mistress is found dead and Ellison became a murder suspect.Īfter proving her innocence, she seems to always end up finding new bodies, so she keeps doing her amateur sleuth while dealing with Mother, of course!Įvery book in the Country Club Murders series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.

Kansas City, Mo., socialite Ellison Russell-and a member of the country club-is at the center of the series. Written by Kansas City native Julie Mulhern, The Country Club Murders is a series of humorous mysteries set in the 1970s. What is The Country Club Murders series about? The ’70s were full of dead bodies, at least for Ellison Russell, the protagonist of The Country Club Murders series. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.

The Deep End by Julie Mulhern