A Death in the Life (The Julie Hayes Mysteries #1)

By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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Synopsis: Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces one of her most winning heroines, Julie Hayes, a former actress turned fortune-teller who abruptly learns there is murder in her futureTwenty-five-year-old Julie Hayes is feeling overshadowed by her globe-trotting journalist husband and looking for some excitement and direction in life. On what amounts to a dare, she sets herself up as &“Friend Julie,&” a storefront fortune-teller in Manhattan&’s seedy Theater District.Now Julie finds herself concerned with the lives of the neighborhood eccentrics, old friends from the Actors Forum, and street characters such as Goldie the pimp, a wealthy gangster, and a young prostitute who wants Julie to help her escape The Life. But a man is found murdered in the girl&’s room—a man Julie can identify for the police. Thrust into the investigation of the man&’s death, Julie discovers a new direction for her life, but her tarot cards reveal a future she might not live to see.A Death in The Life is the first novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis&’s Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes Scarlet Night, Lullaby of Murder, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories &“The Puppet&” and &“Justina&” in the collection In the Still of the Night.