Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and sheโs already traveled and planted a garden. Sheโs organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do . . .
After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge clubโand then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusettsโthat sheโs the go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing. Soon she has her first paid assignmentโthe director of a 55-and-over condo community needs her to de-escalate hostilities among the residents. As Jane discovers after moving in for her undercover assignment, the mature set can be as immature as any high schoolers, and war is breaking out between cliques.
It seems she might make some progressโuntil one of the aging โpopular kidsโ is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. And though the automatic sprinklers have washed away much of the evidence, Janeโs on course to find out whodunit . . .
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