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New Yorker Gladdy Gold retired to Florida to be with her sister Evvie, and they now have separate apartments in a large development there, Lanai Gardens. In their first mystery, GETTING OLD IS MURDER, the sisters apparently uncovered a series of murders of the elderly which had been disregarded as natural deaths by the police. Feeling that seniors often got short shrift from the authorities, they set up a detective agency with a few other friends from the complex, with the motto "Never trust anyone under 75!" In GETTING OLD IS THE BEST REVENGE the enthusiastic team are hired to follow an 85-year-old man who has been coming home later and later, to see if he is having an affair, and there are also some unsavoury incidents occurring in the development which they are asked to investigate. But what is really bothering Gladdy is a series of reports in the news about wealthy women around the age of 60 who seem to be dying of unexpected heart attacks despite their seemingly good health. Surprisingly the cases are connected, and everything comes to a head on a Caribbean bingo cruise. Meanwhile Gladdy is confused about her relationship with another Lanai Gardens resident, Jack, who would like to marry her. Widowed through violence when in her 30s, she isn't sure whether it is right to take the plunge again, and fears that she will lose the close bond she has built up with the eccentric women who are now her sleuthing associates. GETTING OLD IS THE BEST REVENGE is a very good cozy mystery with a salacious edge and comes with a glossary of Jewish slang and swear words. There are plenty of eccentric characters and the plot moves along with speedy good humour. The only thing that I disliked was that it is written in the present tense which always grates with me, but the story was compelling enough that I soon got used to it and it didn't really matter. If you enjoyed the senior sleuths of Anne George's Southern Sisters series, or perhaps the House Mouse bunch of Kathy Hogan Trocheck, then the humorous adventures of Gladdy Gold and Associates in Florida may be just your cup of tea.
Reviewed by Bridget Bolton, May 2006
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