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of Writer Jeanne Grandilli

Introducing my new romantic mystery series, CLUB CALIFORNIA, featuring professional astrologist and amateur sleuth, Prudence Goodkind.

“Club California” is a special place for single mature adults looking for fun, sun, and romance in the California desert—or for the unwary—intrigue, jealousy, and murder.

Prudence Goodkind, 59, is at an uncertain crossroads in her life but ready for a change.

Her longtime partner, Charlie Brower, a former LAPD detective, has recently passed away, leaving her bereft and alone in her big house in Pasadena. When Prudence is offered the position of Astrologer in Residence at Club California, an exclusive desert resort community catering to single adults of a certain age, she decides to accept the offer—despite lingering misgivings and some disquieting rumors about the “swinging” desert community.

Upon her arrival at Club California with devoted cat, Plato, in tow, Prudence is warmly welcomed (and smitten) by suavely handsome Club Manager, Victor Bonaventure, and settles into her beautiful new private villa. However, before she’s even unpacked, Prudence gets an urgent call to do a reading for resident ‘B’ movie actress, Marilyn Marston. After the actress ignores her warning of danger, Prudence finds herself drawn into the center of a scandalous and suspicious Disco Night murder. Prudence offers her unofficial assistance to skeptical cowboy detective, Bret Houston, in solving the case—as she had formerly assisted her late partner—only to find herself romantically drawn to Bret, as well as seductive community manager, Victor. While Prudence ponders her romantic dilemma, she discovers that she’s been targeted as the killer’s next victim!

CLUB CALIFORNIA, Book One: The Danger in Our Stars, is complete at 70,000 words, and the first book in my planned Club California/Prudence Goodkind series. As both a professional astrologer and amateur detective, Prudence employs astrological profiling to aide Det. Bret Houston in solving the murders and mysteries, which continue to arise at Club California. Currently, I’m at work on Book Two: Shooting Stars, inspired by recent tragic events on a Hollywood film set.