- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Dell (Jun 22 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440245427
- ISBN-13: 978-0440245421
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.5 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #172,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey sances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That's when Gladdy comes face to face with a dear departed friend with a message.
About the Author
After being widowed at a young age with three small children, Rita Lakin began an extensive writing career, which has included staff writing on television programs such as Peyton Place, Mod Squad, Dynasty, and Strong Medicine, as well as creating original series such as The Rookies. She has won an Edgar Allen Poe award for her screenwriting, as well as receiving several other award nominations, and her two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossingers, are still being produced around the country.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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What Fun!, Jun 22 2010
By John O. Raab "Editor of Suspense Magazine" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux: A Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
What fun! Rita Lakin and her eccentric cast of young-at-heart, golden agers is just this side of perfect as their harebrained, unexpected antics make you wish you could move in right next door. Though light on mystery, the heavy hand of humor makes following Gladdy and team in this entertaining cozy an outstanding escapade.
Following a hurricane of disastrous proportions, life at Lanai Gardens has finally settled down. Gladdy Gold and her beau, Jack are headed to the altar and their friends and family are all doing as well as can be expected--considering everyone's advanced age. Life is simply perfect until an impulsive trip to a book fair brings a gorgeous Frenchwoman back into Jack's life. Still holding a flame for Jack, this stunning and successful author wants to continue the white-hot relationship where it left off years before. She only has eyes for the "one that got away" and isn't focused on the very real threat to her life that her undercover work and books have brought about. Gladdy, on the other hand, wants the mystery solved and the wannabe home wrecker on the first plane back to Paris so she takes the high ground to logically help solve the case.
Reviewed by Shannon Raab with Suspense Magazine
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Senior Citizens still living......, Jun 27 2010
By Ruth A. Brown - Published on Amazon.com
I've read all this author's books, and enjoy them. Tho I'm not quite as old as these Seniors, I like the idea that all the characters are still contributing. The ole ladies, and a few ole men, get caught up in murder and mayhem. And work to help solve the mysteries; with the help of the police. Most of the characters reside in the same retirement community in Florida. In this book, there are at least 3 murders; a double wedding, and a Dead Husbands Club. Some of their antics are hilarious and some are heart tugging. And not all live happily ever after. Just like in the real world.
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battling geriatrics take on a killing geriatric, Jun 26 2010
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux: A Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)
In France, four men worry that bestselling whistle-blowing author Michelle DuBois will write an exposé concerning their winery. One of the concerned males has a nonagenarian uncle who was an assassin before he retired to his yacht on the Riviera. He is willing to come out of retirement to kill Michelle as a favor to his nephew.
Across the ocean in the Lanai Gardens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, septuagenarians Jack Langford and Gladdy Gold live together with plans to marry. Gladdy, Jack, her Gladiators, and a few yentas attend a local book conference. Jack meets Michelle; they had an affair eight years ago in Paris. To Gladdy's jaundiced vision, the writer is making a grab for her fiancé, who also believes her Jack is too gentle and kind to Michelle. When they learn a French assassin has arrived to kill Michelle and obtain her latest manuscript, she persuades Jack to protect her. The Snake has no compunctions about killing anyone who interferes with his hit and injures Michelle's niece. However, whether it is his age and soft lifestyle intruding on his comeback, he has never had a tougher assignment.
With a tongue in cheek (literally spin), anyone who thinks septuagenarians cannot heat up the sheet obviously has not met Gladdy and Jack, or her sister Evie and Joe. Gladdy plays an active role in Jack's investigation as the "cop's pop" cannot keep his fiancée out of the case. With advice from a dear departed friend (and some bad tasting jokes from octogenarian Hy), readers will enjoy Gladdy's latest case filled with jealousy, the paranormal, and angst as the battling geriatrics take on a killing geriatric.
Harriet Klausner
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