Guaranteed to Bleed by Julie Mulhern

She and her daughter are back home again after spending some time in France.  After finding her husband murdered and taking care of his funeral, she needed some time away.  Especially since he was two-timing her and she needed to adjust to her muted grief and the shame of folks taking about her.  She's back now, attending the local football game, and refreshing her lipstick when she drops the tube.  It was a very expensive French lipstick, so she goes down behind the bleachers to get it back.  What she finds is young man who is bleeding and on his way out...

The author and Goddess Fish Blog Tours gave me a copy of this book to read for review (thank you).  It has been published, so you can grab a copy now.

This was an interesting mystery with all sorts of odd touches.  Ellison has two romance interests.  One is a cop and the other is a lawyer type that knows how to get around the law. She has a girlfriend that is always setting her up on blind dates.  Little does she know the place they are going is for cross dressers and their dates go there in dress regularly.  There is a totally controlling stepfather that is obnoxious all the way around.  A drunk mother over there.  And she has the dying boy's final words ringing in her ear:  "Tell her I love her."  Tell who?

I liked how the author ended the story.  Ellison is finding out what is important to her.

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