As a girl in the West, Valentine Mackle dodged quicksand along the rivers of the mining camps, but as Mrs. Roderick W. DeVere of New York’s Fifth Avenue, Val is sucked into Society’s own quicksand in spring, 1899, when a weekend at a country estate in the Hudson Valley turns deadly. Val’s “soul sister” drowns on family property, and the host’s best “practical jokes” double as death traps. A Gilded Drowning Pool snarls Val and husband Roddy in a bogus adult health camp, a brothel, a town-and-country pocked with probable killers—and an ambitious police chief convinced that Val and Roddy DeVere played a part in the death that is ruled a homicide "Murder and intrigue disrupt the usual upper-class frivolities in New York’s Hudson Valley In Tichi’s fifth installment of her Gilded Age mystery series,. There are plenty of juicy secrets behind the glittering facade and enough suspects to keep the reader guessing. A light, enjoyable escapist read with a satisfying final twist.” - Kirkus Reviews A fresh start for every new book, and author Tichi's zest for America's Gilded Age and its boldface names draws this seasoned writer to a crime fiction series while uncorking the country's cocktail cultures on the printed page. Tichi digs deep into the Vanderbilt University research library to mine the late 1800-1900s history and customs of Society's "Four Hundred," its drinks, and the ways high-stakes crimes in its midst make for a gripping "Gilded" mystery series that rings true to the tumultuous era. The decades of America's industrial titans and "Queens" of Society have loomed large in Tichi's books for several years, and the titles track her recent projects: -Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)-Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America-What Would Mrs. Astor Do? A Complete Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age-Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from the Golden Age-Jazz Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from the Roaring Twenties.-A Gilded Death (crime fiction)-Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park (crime fiction)-A Fatal Gilded High Note (crime fiction)-A Deadly Gilded Free Fall (crime fiction)-A Fatal Gilded High Note (crime fiction)-A Gilded Drowning Pool (crime fiction) Spring 2023She enjoys membership and posting in Facebook's The Gilded Age Society. You can read more about Cecelia by visiting her Wikipedia page at: https: //bit.ly/Tichiwiki or her website: https: //cecebooks.com.