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GETTING OLD IS CRIMINAL

Getting Old Is Criminal, May 2007
Gladdy Gold Mystery #3
by Rita Lakin

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Featuring: Gladdy Gold
384 pages
ISBN: 0440243866
EAN: 9780440243861
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"With all the murder taking place, your lucky if you have a chance to get old."

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GETTING OLD IS CRIMINAL
Rita Lakin

Reviewed by Jory Reedy
Posted April 7, 2007

Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Woman Sleuth

It's never a dull moment for Florida's most feisty and oldest living senior sleuths. Gladdy Gold and the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency are on the trail of a Peeping Tom right at home in Lanai Gardens. Then a call comes in for Gladdy and a partner from the agency to go undercover at a posh villa in Palm Beach to expose a suspected killer. Gladdy chooses her sister Evvie and off they go. The setting may be luxurious, but the assignment is dangerous.

After acquiring cooperation from the management of Wilmington House, Gladdy and Evvie arrive (separately) to begin their new job. They promised to blend in but right off, Evvie uses all of her acting skills to flirt her way into the arms of the suspect. His name is Philip and Evvie thinks she's in love. This is not the way Gladdy wants things to go. Is he a killer and will Evvie be his next victim?

GETTING OLD IN CRIMINAL by Rita Lakin is outrageously funny and one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. I hope Ms. Lakin keeps this series going.

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SUMMARY

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
wellβ€”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
outβ€”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 killerβ€”and loving it.…

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