ISBN: 978-1-60264-188-4, softcover, $14.95, 376 pages
When quality of life declines with age and illness, who decides if you're better off dead? Nursing supervisor Claire Lindstrom suspects a killer is making the final judgment call for the clients of Compassionate Care.
A woman with Alzheimer's disease dies unexpectedly in the night. Another is found dead beside a stream. Claire sees the beginnings of a sinister pattern, but Paula Rhodes, her temperamental boss, doesn't want her raising questions. The survival of the home healthcare agency in upstate New York depends on its reputation for quality care, and a rash of mysterious deaths could kill the business.
Claire antagonizes the county coroner and becomes the prime suspect in the eyes of the police. All the while, from his vantage point near her cottage on Kooperskill Lake, a killer called Gabriel is watching, channeling his obsession with Claire into passionate paintings. Under another name, he's a man she already knows — but which one? And is he part of a far larger scheme of eldercide?
Our society is rapidly aging, our allotted life spans growing ever longer, but at what cost? "Eldercide" explores ethical dilemmas most of us will face — if we live long enough.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Lomoe knows home health care from the ground up. As President of ElderSource, Inc., a home health care agency in upstate New York, she became certified as a Personal Care Aide and filled in frequently for absent aides. The experience inspired Eldercide, the first in a mystery series featuring the staff and clients of Compassionate Care, an agency in the fictional town of Kooperskill.
Julie's first published novel, "Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders" (Virtualbookworm, 2006) is set in a social club for the mentally ill on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The work was inspired by her many years of professional mental health experience and advocacy for mental health consumers.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, Julie received an MFA from Columbia University and an MA in Art Therapy from New York University. She lived in SoHo for many years, exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art, the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and many Manhattan galleries. She is also a poet and a jazz pianist. Visit her web site, www.julielomoe.com, to contact Julie and learn more about her work.
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