Mature Heroines with Sass and Spunk!
Discover fierce mature heroines with sass and spunk! Explore top fiction picks like *Getting Old Is Murder* by Rita Lakin and *Miss Julia Hits the Road*—featuring witty, bold women who prove age is just a number. From Gladdy Gold’s mystery capers to retirement-home adventures, this curated list celebrates sharp-tongued, unstoppable protagonists in laugh-out-loud, page-turning reads.
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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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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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Miss Julia Hits the Road
by Ann B. Ross
Despite her increasing concerns about the exploits marking her boyfriend's mid-life crisis, sharp-tongued southerner Miss Julia launches a motorcycle fund-raiser to save her housekeeper's home from being lost to the schemes of a greedy landlord. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
