Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she’s
already traveled and planted a garden. She’s 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 club—and then around
all of West Cambridge, Massachusetts—that she’s the go-to
girl for situations that need discreet fixing. Soon she has
her first paid assignment—the 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 progress—until one of the aging
“popular kids” is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. And
though the automatic sprinklers have washed away much of the
evidence, Jane’s on course to find out whodunit . . .