Skeletons in the Attic

by Judy Penz Sheluk

Published by Superior Shores Press Cover design by Ryan Thomas Doan and Hunter Martin

“Skeletons in the Attic” will grab your attention and won’t let go. It is a skilfully crafted mystery where nothing is as it seems, full of twists and turns.

Calamity (Callie) Barnstable’s father has recently died when his faulty harness inexplicably gives way causing him to fall from the thirteenth floor of a building under construction. Things go from straightforward to problematic when her father’s executor, Leith Hampton a criminal lawyer, reads her father’s Last Will & Testament. It seems that she has inherited a house, but not just any house, her childhood home. She had been unaware her father had kept it all these years.

This shocking revelation becomes perplexing when Leith reads a startling provision. Callie must move into Sixteen Snapdragon Circle and live there for a period of one year at which time she would be free to keep the house or dispose of it. Here is where the mystery begins. She must not only move to Marketville and live in the house but she must solve her mother’s murder.

The author skilfully creates an irresistible compulsion to read on in search of the next clue that will surely lead to the truth but the truth is elusive. The reader is swept along in a current of suspicion and fear as Callie struggles to regain her childhood memories.

Judy Penz Sheluk is brilliant at creating a character you can identify with. She truly is a master of her craft.

Be sure to read Judy’s Amazon International Bestselling series Glass Dolphin Mysteries and Marketville Mysteries. Also, look for her short story collections The Best Laid Plans, Live Free or Tri and Unhappy Endings short stories, Plan D, Live Free or Die, Beautiful Killer, Saturdays with Bronwyn and Goulaigans.

James D. A. Terry