My day begins at 5:30 in the morning with either our four-year-old daughter, Grace, running into the darkened bedroom or Sweetie the cat standing on my chest until I can barely breathe. Grace and I then head downstairs while Greg, my husband, takes a shower and then brings the dogs outside for a walk. I make breakfast for my family, lunches for school, and then feed the pets. By now, Sweetie is shooting me green-eyed death glares.

After the twins catch the bus and Greg leaves for work, it’s time for Grace and me to head out. She’s especially excited today because it’s her first day of pre-school. I don’t know where the time goes. It seems like only yesterday that she was born, and I quit my career as a real estate agent to stay home with her.

Let me start out by saying that I hadn’t planned on returning to real estate. Like everything else in my life, I never saw it coming. I’d barely dropped Grace off at school when Jacques called. He’s my best friend and the owner of Forte Realty, where I was formerly employed. An old college roommate of mine, Pamela Hilton, thought that I was still in the business and wanted to know if I could list her home. I was torn over what to do, but Jacques assured me that it was fate. “What perfect timing! Why not make a few bucks while Grace is in school?” he said. With another daughter in college and the twins entering high school, we could use the extra money. Besides, it sounds like Pam needs help. She’s going through a messy divorce and her cheating husband is determined to see that she winds up with nothing. So, in a moment of weakness, I said yes.

I have a confession to make. When I first left the real estate world, it wasn’t only because of Grace’s birth. Jacques and I became embroiled in a murder investigation, and almost wound-up dead because of it. In order to save our lives, I had to kill someone. It’s something that I think about every day and will haunt me for the rest of my life, but I had no other choice.

Okay, back to the present. It didn’t even take a day before someone wanted to tour Pam’s home. It is a stellar housing market, after all. The couple has teenaged children on the swim team and were anxious to see the inground pool. It’s gorgeous, and there’s a lovely view of it from Pam’s bedroom. There was one problem, though.

Pam’s husband was in the pool, doing a dead man’s float.

I guess that after four years, not much has changed.

Killer View, A Cindy York Mystery #4
Genre: Cozy
Release: February 2022
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It’s been four years since sometime sleuth Cindy York left the real estate world behind in favor of a more fulfilling career as a stay-at-home mom. Now that her little one is starting school, Cindy fears her life is about to become dull.

She shouldn’t have worried.

An old college chum soon surfaces and begs Cindy to sell her home, making it impossible for the former agent to say no. Pamela Hilton is going through a messy divorce and any profit will need to be split equally between the woman and her louse of a spouse. But when Cindy shows the home to prospective buyers and Kevin Hilton is found doing a dead man’s float in their pool, things quickly become more complicated.

Convinced of her friend’s innocence, Cindy sets out to find a ruthless killer. But will her return to the workforce and her life both be short term?

About the author
USA Today Bestselling Author Catherine Bruns lives in Upstate New York with a male dominated household and several spoiled pets. In the past eight years, she’s written over twenty books and has several more waiting to be told. Catherine’s third Cindy York novel, For Sale by Killer, won the 2019 Daphne du Maurier award for Best Mystery. Her newest series, the Maple Syrup Mysteries, releases in October with A Doomful of Sugar. Readers are invited to visit her website at catherinebruns.net.

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