Great Elderly Lead Character Fiction!
Discover captivating fiction with elderly lead characters! Explore our curated list of books featuring inspiring and heartwarming stories centered around older protagonists.
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Death for Dessert
by T. Dawn Richard
Here's a wry, witty, cozy mystery in the tradition of Carolyn Hart's "Henrie O." mysteries, featuring a feisty senior sleuth who finds blackmail and a mysterious death at the senior-citizen complex she just moved into. In an effort to clear her name, May teams up with a goup of flimflammed, wildly wicked seniors to solve the murder and recover their dignity and their money. Death for Dessert will have cozy readers cheering for this new mystery heroine and riveted to the very last page.
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A Wrinkle in Crime
by T. Dawn Richard
When sixty-seven years old May Bell List reads in the Spokane about the death of Gerty Peach from a heart attack, she has problems accepting that the bouncy woman who ran in a race two weeks ago died from natural causes. She decides she must do something about what the police choose to ignore. May visits the deceased's two sisters, Inez and Bertha, in the suburb of Harvest as she knows them. They seem gleeful over the death of their haughty odious sibling, who planned to shut down their business.
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Digging Up Otis
by T. Dawn Richard
May Bell List is back in action when one of the Waning Years Estates residents goes missing.
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Retirement Homes Are Murder
by Mike Befeler
Octogenarian Paul Jacobson must overcome the limitations of short term memory loss and the restrictions of living in a retirement home in Hawaii in order to clear himself of murder charges after finding a body stuffed in a trash chute.
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On the Warpath
by Gerald Hammond
After a long life marked by service in the French Resistance, a successful journalism career, and raising her grandson, David, Helen Drysdale abandons her retirement plans and comes to David's rescue when he is threatened by con artists.
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Epitaph
by James Siegel
Following a dangerous string of clues, Riskin finds himself in hot pursuit of a little-known World War II criminal named Dr. Petoit, who, after promising sanctuary to hundreds of fleeing Jews in occupied France, led them to death in his own home. As Riskin uncovers his friend's own guilty part in these crimes, he himself comes face to face with the ultimate evil.
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Granny
by Anthony Horowitz
Twelve-year-old Joe Warden isn't happy. He has rich, uncaring parents and is virtually a prisoner in the huge family mansion, Thattlebee Hall. Worst of all, though, is his granny. Not only is she physically repulsive, she's horribly mean.
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Tricky Business
by Dave Barry
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's band with so little talent they are . . . well, the ship's band; Arnold and Phil, two refugees from the Beaux Arts Senior Center; Lou Tarant, a wide, bald man who has killed nine people, though none recently; and an assortment of uglies whose job it is to facilitate the ship's true business, which is money-laundering or drug-smuggling or . . . something.
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Hit and Run
by Gerald Hammond
Luke Grant enjoys his comfortable life. But when the widowed wife of his grandson is badly injured in a hit-and-run accident, it is up to Luke to find out who injured his granddaughter and why.
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Getting Old Is Murder
by Rita Lakin
She’s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlie’s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killer–one who is silently stalking them. Selma Beller was the first to go–but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective won’t listen to them, Hy Binder won’t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culprit–time really is running out….
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Getting Old is the Best Revenge
by Rita Lakin
When two cases collide with a third and the girls at the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency win a luxury bingo cruise, Gladdy hits the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Florida's fiercest bingo competitiors - but also a killer.
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Getting Old is to Die for
by Rita Lakin
Florida's oldest living private detective, Gladdy Gold is juggling poolside gossip, a boyfriend, and a thriving detective business, but a trip north with her sister and her Florida pals--Sophie, Bella, and Ida--gets them all in hot water, with her friends going undercover to nab a crook, and her boyfriend re-opening a decades-old case--the forty-year-old murder of her husband. Original.
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Death Rides the Surf
by Nora Charles
When her granddaughter Katharine drops out of college and arrives in Florida, taking up with a gang of surfers, Kate Kennedy must come to her rescue when her surfer crush is killed in a shark attack and the police suspect foul play, pointing their fingers at Katherine. Original.