Getting Old Is the Best Revenge (Gladdy Gold) [Kindle Edition]

Rita Lakin (Author)

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“NEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!”

That’s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Don’t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercises–hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Florida’s wealthiest wives.

But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Florida’s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killer–and it’s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victim….


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About the Author

After being widowed at a young age with three small children, Rita Lakin began an extensive writing career, which has included staff writing on television programs such as Peyton Place, Mod Squad, Dynasty, and Strong Medicine, as well as creating original series such as The Rookies. She has won an Edgar Allen Poe award for her screenwriting, as well as receiving several other award nominations, and her two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossingers, are still being produced around the country.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 388 KB
• Print Length: 336 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0440242592
• Publisher: Dell (March 28, 2006)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000GCFCM8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,076 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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RITA LAKIN
Rita Lakin spent twenty-five years in Television as a writer on numerous series, movies, miniseries, created a number of dramatic series, finally becoming producer/show runner on her own shows. She is now writing comedy mystery novels featuring Gladdy Gold and her zany geriatric partners in crime-solving. She won first place for her IMBA bestselling Getting Old is a Disaster. Same novel won Left Coast Crime LEFTY AWARD for most humorous mystery published in 2009.

Her many other awards include Writers Guild of America, MWA Edgar, and the Avery Hopwood award from the University of Michigan. Visit www.ritalakin.com

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A light, funny mystery, April 8, 2006

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This review is from: Getting Old Is the Best Revenge (Mass Market Paperback)

I have a problem when people start bashing light-hearted mysteries like they are serious critics for The New York Times. When you choose to read a mystery, you are looking for something light and enjoyable; an escape, perhaps. You know you are not reading serious literature. Rita Lakin's second entry in her Gladdy Gold series is even better than her first. The reviewer who bashed the book should be ashamed for insulting senior citizens as if they should all be decrepit and in wheel chairs. This is a funny, light mystery with an engaging plot and likeble characters. They are quite believable and show that seniors do still have functioning brains, interests, desires and needs. Gladdy is smart, charming, and realistic. The story is well-paced and makes the reader want to keep turning the pages. This is a highly recommended entry in a series that keeps getting better.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You'll Be Glad you met Gladdy, April 24, 2006

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This review is from: Getting Old Is the Best Revenge (Mass Market Paperback)

After their success in catching a serial killer ("Getting Old Is Murder"), 75 year old Gladdy Gold, her sister Evvie, and friends Ida, Bella, and Sophie open the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. They have plenty of clients, including a woman who thinks her 85 year old husband is cheating on her, plus they'd like to catch the flasher that is targeting their retirement complex. But that's not enough work for Gladdy, when she reads about the deaths of several rich women, she wonders if they were murdered. Her boyfriend, ex-cop Jack Langford and his policeman son, Morrie, tell Gladdy she's imaging things. But murder seems to find Gladdy and when she and her friends take a bingo cruise they find themselves on board with a killer.

I liked "Getting Old Is the Best Revenge" even better than the first book in the series. The characters continue to develop and we learn more about how Gladdy's husband died and why she is so hesitant in her relationship with Jack. Having Gladdy open a detective agency is a great move as it will give author Rita Lakin a good plot device to have Gladdy get involved in more murder investigations. Lakin does stretch a bit with Gladdy and the girls ending up on the same cruise ship as a murderer and befriending the intended victim, but the cruise is so much fun that readers will forgive her. The murder is well plotted and readers will have a hard time figuring out who the murderer is. Readers who are easily offended should be aware that there is a sexual overtone throughout the book.

This is an excellent cozy mystery.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Possibly more fun than the first in the series, Getting Old is Murder, May 18, 2006

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This review is from: Getting Old Is the Best Revenge (Mass Market Paperback)

Gladdy Gold and Associates, Detective Agency, are at it again and enjoying every minute. Gladdy and her girls, as she calls her group, start this book with a case of trailing a wandering husband and one of looking for a flasher at their Florida community of retirees. Gladdy's sister, Evvie, writes movie reviews for their local community paper. Since they're private investigators now, the group always goes to mystery movies to help with their detection skills. It sometimes works.

When Gladdy is out for dinner with her boyfriend, a retired police detective, and his son, a current police detective, Gladdy links two recent deaths of older, wealthy Florida women, deaths which appear to be from natural causes. A few days later a third death occurs, but no one takes Gladdy's concerns seriously.

The girls win a ticket for a luxury bingo cruise. During the cruise all is resolved and Gladdy is vindicated.

Gladdy and her associates are a great group. I can't wait for the next installment scheduled for Spring, 2007, Getting Old is Criminal.