BLOGWORDS – Friday 19 September 2025– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – ONE LAST DANCE by EILEEN GOUDGE

BLOGWORDS – Friday 19 September 2025– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – ONE LAST DANCE by EILEEN GOUDGE

FIRST LINE FRIDAY – ONE LAST DANCE by EILEEN GOUDGE

 

THE BOOK

 

 

 

THE BLURB

Each of Lydia Seagrave's daughters is unhappy in her own way. Although a successful novelist, Daphne is professionally stunted and bored with her doctor husband. Her sister Kitty, the owner of a small California tea room, feels empty without a child. And Alex, the youngest, is a recent divorcée who is having trouble just paying her rent.

When the three girls return home for their parents' fortieth wedding anniversary, they hardly expect to be confronted with murder. Their father is dead, and Lydia was found with the smoking gun. As she goes on trial the three sisters struggle to solve the mystery of why their mother, a seemingly devoted wife, would murder their father in cold blood, uncovering family secrets that threaten to tear them all apart and confronting their own unhappiness along the way.

 

THE FIRST LINE

The moment she walked in, Daphne knew she was doomed.

 

 

THE AUTHOR

I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up from the time I first learned to read and write. I wrote my first short story at age eight. My first writing gig was as a ghost writer for the wildly popular YA series "Sweet Valley High." I have since gone on to publish 21 fiction titles, and one cookbook, under my own name. My first novel, "Garden of Lies" was a New York Times bestseller, published in 25 countries.

"Where do you get your story ideas?" is the question I'm most often asked by readers. Curious by nature, I also come from a large family with more a few skeletons rattling around in the closet, which means I never run out of story ideas, many of them inspired by true-life events. I’m also a wife and mom of two adult children. No pets currently, but I have fun hanging out with my fictional pets, most recently Ranger the rescue dog extraordinaire in "All They Need to Know." My hobby is baking, and I get some of my best story ideas while kneading bread dough or rolling out pastry crusts. You never know what might come out of my "oven."

 

 

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