Exciting life in a retirement community

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	• Getting Old is Criminal (Gladdy Gold Mysteries) Rita Lakin Dell, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

this one is better than the rest

This installment into Gladdys life is better than the others.
With this one we see the joys and woes of the retirement community even more and of course there are some really funny parts...... sophie taking her "glaucoma" meds... hilarious.
The end of the book has a teaser to the new 2008 installment and it promises to solve the crime of Gaddy's husband Jack's murder.
Can't wait.

Getting old is so much fun

I've just finished reading this book, and I like it just as much I liked the other books in this series. The characters are funny, witty, hilarious and lovable. The reason I like this series mostly because other than being a mystery, it also deals with the sad side of aging, losing loved ones, illness etc. A great book for an lazy evening.

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Unique Mystery

75 year old Gladdy Gold's relationship with Jack Langford, also 75, is just heating up - they are on a romantic vacation in Pago Pago when Gladdy gets an urgent fax that one of her friends is dying. Gladdy rushes back home but the fax turns out to be a false alarm and Jack is furious that Gladdy put her friends before him and breaks it off with her until he has time to think their relationship over. Gladdy is heartbroken and is glad when Alvin Ferguson hires the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency to investigate his mother's death. She was 95 and her death was written off as natural causes but Alvin is convinced his mother's boyfriend Philip Smythe killed her. Eager to get away, Gladdy and her sister Evvie go under cover at the Wilmington House where Philip is scheduled to live. Gladdy and Evvie are supposed to expose Philip as the killer, but when Evvie falls for his charms, Gladdy is working alone and in real danger of losing her sister, in more ways than one.

"Getting Old is Criminal" is a unique mystery. Although it has some elements of a cozy mystery, especially in having a group of elderly women running a detective agency and solving mysteries, and has a humorous side plot about a flasher, it is a bit darker than traditional cozy mysteries. Also, this isn't much of a mystery since it's clear from the very beginning who the murderer is - the only real mystery is whether he'll be caught before he kills again. What makes the book worth reading is the characters. All of the characters are well written and believable, starting with Gladdy who is still in some ways mourning the death of her husband and a bit hesitant about starting a new relationship. While Jack wasn't in the book much, I wanted to shake some sense into him for the way that he was treating Gladdy. Evvie's part of the story is heartbreaking as she falls for the seemingly charming Philip, a development that not only threatens her relationship with Gladdy but her life. The other members of Gladdy's detective group are also well written, with the standout being Ida who begins to open up to Gladdy about her estranged relationship with her son and his family. As I mentioned earlier, it's not much of a surprise who the murderer is, but the reason why he killed struck me as a bit unbelievable.

"Getting Old is Criminal" is a good if unusual mystery.

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Gladdy and the girls are back :)

Gladdy and her friends are back - hot on the trail of another killer. While trying to share a romantic rendezous with her boyfriend Jack, Gladdy is called home, thinking one of her friends is seriously ill. Only to find them all alive and well and stuck in the middle of another murder case. Jack is not happy with Gladdy's decision to choose her friends over him and decides they need a break. Gladdy and Evvie go under cover at a retirement home to smoke out the killer - only to find Evvie falling in love with him. I love this series. The characters are hysterical and remind me SO much of the time I spend in south Florida with my grandparents. All the alta kockers hanging out by the pool kibbitzing to their hearts content. I can picture it all so vividly in my head it's like I'm right there with them :) This is probaly my favorite so far.

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Exciting life in a retirement community

Our heroine is 75, but you had better forget all your preconceptions about old age. Glady Gold and her friends solve serious mysteries. As those of us who are older recognize, elderly ladies can be completely unnoticed. This is an ideal arrangement if they go into the detective business. My intention is to read the entire series.

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Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighbors?until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memory, Gladdy?s would-be beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency all alive and well?they?re onto a hot new murder case.

Is a retirement-home Romeo to blame for the mysterious deaths in Florida?s most luxurious communities? Gladdy and her curious kibitzers will have to go undercover to find out?covering themselves with as many fancy-schmancy airs as possible. But with Gladdy?s drama queen sister Evvie playing the role of a Palm Beach flirt, their fun and games turn deadly. For by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of a killer?and loving it.?

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