A Hole in One
Published by Barking Rain Press in March 2018, the second Glass Dolphin Mystery sends antiques dealer Arabella Carpenter and partner Emily Garland after a killer when a stray tee shot at a charity golf tournament lands beside a body.
Author profile
Judy Penz Sheluk
Canadian author of the Glass Dolphin and Marketville mystery series. Barking Rain Press published The Hanged Man's Noose (2015), the second edition of Skeletons in the Attic (2017) and A Hole in One (2018). She later founded Superior Shores Press.
Author’s own website: judypenzsheluk.com
Career overview
Judy Penz Sheluk is a Canadian mystery writer; her website describes her as a native Torontonian. Her own website says she left corporate work in 2003 to become a full-time freelance journalist and editor, and it describes her as a former journalist and magazine editor. A 2015 press release said she specialised in art, antiques and the residential housing industry, and that her articles had run in many American and Canadian consumer and trade publications. A 2018 author bio said she had been Senior Editor of New England Antiques Journal since 2007.
Her fiction falls into two mystery series. The Glass Dolphin Mysteries are set around an antiques shop in the fictional Ontario town of Lount’s Landing. The Marketville Mysteries begin with Skeletons in the Attic. Her website says she has also written several short stories and two books on publishing. By her own account she has served on the board of Crime Writers of Canada, most recently as chair, and she is a member of International Thriller Writers and the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
With Barking Rain Press (archival)
Barking Rain Press published three of her books between 2015 and 2018:
- The Hanged Man’s Noose (July 2015), her debut novel and the first Glass Dolphin Mystery, in trade paperback and eBook.
- Skeletons in the Attic, second edition (December 2017). The novel was first published by Imajin Books in August 2016, and a November 2017 review reported the move to Barking Rain Press.
- A Hole in One (March 2018), the second Glass Dolphin Mystery, in trade paperback and eBook.
In 2018 blog posts she called Barking Rain Press the press behind the Glass Dolphin series and described its team approach to cover design. The former barkingrainpress.org site had an author page for her at /judy-penz-sheluk/.
Her bibliography shows that all three titles later had new editions from Superior Shores Press: Skeletons in the Attic and A Hole in One in July 2019, and The Hanged Man’s Noose in November 2018. The Barking Rain Press editions are historical and are no longer offered by that press.
Current work
According to her website, she founded and runs Superior Shores Press, which she set up in February 2018. It publishes her later books and a series of multi-author mystery anthologies, including Heartbreaks & Half-Truths, Moonlight & Misadventure, Larceny & Last Chances and Midnight Schemers & Daydream Believers. The third Glass Dolphin Mystery, Where There’s a Will, came out from Superior Shores Press in November 2020, and the second Marketville book, Past & Present, in September 2018.
She has also written about publishing. Her site says Finding YOUR Path to Publication won the 2024 Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction. Her most recent project listed there is A Fatal Affair: The Murder of Helen Grier, a true-crime book about an unsolved 1937 case, written with Amanda Capper. Readers looking for current editions and news should go to her website, judypenzsheluk.com.
Book records on this site
Skeletons in the Attic
Callie Barnstable inherits a house in Marketville, along with a condition: live there for a year and find out what happened to her mother. First published by Imajin Books in 2016; Barking Rain Press published the second edition in December 2017.
The Hanged Man's Noose
First published by Barking Rain Press in July 2015, this amateur-sleuth mystery follows freelance journalist Emily Garland as opposition to a big-box development in Lount's Landing turns deadly. Book one of the Glass Dolphin Mysteries.
Sources
- About Judy Penz Sheluk, Judy Penz Sheluk (author website). Accessed 2026-11-12.
- Judy Penz Sheluk: Books, Judy Penz Sheluk (author website). Accessed 2026-11-12.
- Judy Penz Sheluk (author home page), Judy Penz Sheluk (author website). Accessed 2026-11-12.
- Now in Print & eBook: "The Hanged Man's Noose" by Debut Canadian Author Judy Penz Sheluk, PR.com. Accessed 2026-11-12.
- CYBER CAFE: Judy Penz Sheluk, M.H. Callway. Accessed 2026-11-12.
- Golf? Or Not? (Jungle Red Writers, 3 March 2018), Jungle Red Writers. Accessed 2026-11-12.
- "Skeletons in the Attic" A Marketville Mystery By Judy Penz Sheluk: Audio Book Review/Giveaway/Guest Post, KRL News and Reviews. Accessed 2026-11-12.