The Deep End
Summary:
It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art. She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes – kinky sex, petty cruelties, and blackmail. As the body count approaches par on the seventh hole, Ellison knows she has to catch a killer. But with an interfering mother, an adoring father, a teenage daughter, and a cadre of well-meaning friends demanding her attention, can Ellison find the killer before he finds her?
Group Comments:
Note: our group is no longer using a standard rating system. Each member gives comments and using whatever rating system they want! I’ve tried to sort by liked/didn’t like as much as possible. (-marni)
Yummy, delicious loved it! Light and fluffy. I liked the characters. Fun reading
I’m trying to decide if I like it or not. Not super scary, at times kind of fun. Liked how it walked the line between two generations of mothers and daughters. Thumbs in the middle. Loved how she talks about painting but we never see them!
I love the wit. Nice change of pace. Loved main character’s relationship with mom. Wish we heard more about her art. Thumbs up.
I liked the wit. Liked the sense of the 70s. Didn’t like the ending.
Thumbs up. Listened to audio book (2 people) and liked it. Liked references to color, really fun. Found Ellison annoying at beginning but liked her more and more as story went on.
I liked it too. Easy and light. Bothered me that there was a lot of judging and shaming around the kink, when the problem was the adultery and blackmail! Ellison grew on me.
Fluff mystery. Quick read. Thumbs up but maybe because it’s a nice change—fluff is ok sometimes.
Very interesting that the main character-Ellison is in that in-between time/era moving from the staid 50s to the 70s.
Thumbs up but at times annoyed by the main character and her reactions to others and situations but appropriate to the setting and time.
Did not like it—hate when characters keep things hidden from the police for no good reason.
Dropping the 70s references–so awkward. Too obvious, especially in the beginning. Got better as the novel progressed.
Some of it cliché (all the men falling for her, etc.) so thumbs down. No sense of place or time, too heavy handed with the 70s era references.
I wanted to like it, but I just kind of lost it with the country club scene and the kinky sex stuff.
I knew after the first 20 pages it wasn’t my thing. Didn’t finish it. Didn’t work for me.
