Julie Lomoe

        Author    Poet    Artist

07/05/08 bbb

Just Published!

ELDERCIDE: A Novel of Suspense

by Julie Lomoe

About the Book

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 health care 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.

To read a sample chapter, click here.

About the Author

In addition to being an author, poet and artist, Julie Lomoe brings a wealth of professional experience to Eldercide. Her work as an art therapist at a psychiatric center inspired her to turn to fiction as a creative artist. She later founded and ran ElderSource, Inc., a licensed home care services agency. She is a trained ombudsman and vocal advocate for the rights of the elderly and the mentally ill.

Julie lived in SoHo in New York City for many years. She has shown her paintings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the original 1969 Woodstock Festival, in many Manhattan galleries, and most recently at the New York State Museum.