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Not the Trip We Planned

Not the Trip We Planned

Chickie and Maddy are aging in their typical yin and yang styles when old friend Lena’s husband, Edward, suddenly dies. Maddy, a retired social worker, is eager to offer support; Chickie, a chronically underemployed journalist, is peeved at the inconvenience. Friendship prevails and the two reluctantly return to Chicago, where they’d all met decades earlier.

They soon learn that Lena requires more than comfort or casseroles-she is certain Edward was murdered and demands answers. Chickie and Maddy dismiss her suspicions as grief but agree to help. They’re soon astonished to discover they have a penchant for unraveling secrets, learning more about Edward than they ever wanted to know. As the tensions increase, the women must choose to remain silent or pursue justice . . . or is it revenge?

Pages: 308
Pub Date: 03-04-2025
Softcover: 19.95 979-8-88824-608-5
Hardcover: 28.95 979-8-88824-610-8

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As a clinical psychologist and professor, Linda has authored five nonfiction books about the twists and turns of life but has waited a long time to create her own fun and sassy characters. Linda has two grown daughters, lives in Evanston, Illinois, maintains a private practice, travels whenever she can and practices yoga when her body permits. Previous books by Linda N. Edelstein: Maternal Bereavement 1984; The Art of Midlife: Courage and Creative Living for Women 1999; The Writer’s Guide to Character Traits (1st and 2nd ed) 1999, 2006; What Do I Say? The Therapist’s Guide To Answering Client Questions 2011 (with C. Waehler); Object of Obsession 2012; and Shattered 2014

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Carol and Linda met a long time ago in graduate school at Northwestern. Then, marriage took Carol back to her native California, where she worked in Bay Area public mental health for thirty-five years, doing crisis intervention and graduate clinical training in serious mental illness. She has longed to write detective fiction since she first discovered Nancy Drew. Carol has two grown children in Portland, Oregon, where she, her husband, and Angus the cat have recently relocated.

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