Who Killed Swami Schwartz? A Kate Kennedy, Senior Sleuth Mystery [Large Print] [Paperback]

Nora Charles (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2, 2005

Once a snowbird, Kate Kennedy is now a full-time South Florida resident and sometime sleuth. At a dinner for Swami Schwartz, the founder of the Palmetto Beach Yoga Institute, the food is fabulous and the dancing is delightful. That is, until Swami two-steps all over Kate's new shoes and then keels over dead after someone spikes his double espresso with cyanide. Kate teams up with her best friend Marlene to sort through suspects . . .

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Review

"A charming new series . . . Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine."
-- Nancy Martin

Product Details

• Paperback: 265 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing; 1 edition (June 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587249723
• ISBN-13: 978-1587249723
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,774,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yoga and a great senior sleuth, March 15, 2006

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Dawn Dowdle "Mystery Lovers Corner reviewer" (Lynchburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who Killed Swami Schwartz? (Senior Sleuth Mystery Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

Kate Kennedy attends a dinner for Swami Schwartz, founder of the Palmetto Beach Yoga Institute. Swami drops dead because someone spiked his double espresso with cyanide.

Kate is recently widowed and fairly new to retirement in South Florida. Her ex-sister-in-law Marlene lives in the same condo building. The two of them decide to try to figure out why he was poisoned.

Their investigation leads them to a cryogenics firm where you can have your head frozen for $30,000 or your whole body for $128,000.

There is a plethora of suspects. Can they figure out who did it and why without putting themselves in danger?

I really enjoy this series. I think Kate is a fun senior sleuth. The escapades that she and Marlene get into are very entertaining. It is a fun, fast read! A great cozy mystery.

For those of you who might not know, she has also written the Ghostwriter series as Noreen Wald. They're great fun too!

I highly recommend this book!


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Closer to 4½ stars, I think, December 12, 2005

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kellytwo "kellytwo" (cleveland hts, ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who Killed Swami Schwartz? (Senior Sleuth Mystery Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

Generally speaking, if you like one book (or series) by a certain author, you'll like any other books by that author, even if published under a different name. I really liked the `Ghostwriter' mysteries by Noreen Wald, and after starting this book, realized that she's also this author, Nora Charles. Whichever name she goes by, she's still an author worth reading. I didn't happen to see the first book in this series, so I was a bit at sea with the set-up, but soon caught up.

As in her other books, the characters are so well-delineated, you feel as though they're people you know. Or might like to know. Well, most of them, at any rate. As a rather recent widow, Kate Kennedy is now living in Florida, far away from most of her family. A former sister-in-law Marlene lives in the same condo building, and is the impetuous one of the two. Kate stops to think before she rushes into difficulties.

Of course, she also `talks' to her deceased husband as well as her dog, Ballou. All in all, this is a charming book, with a reasonable mystery included. It's wonderful to read about active, busy seniors going about their active, busy lives. They (we) think about life just as the younger folks do, dating, money, sex - you name it! Life is universal, after all.

Serious-minded folks might think this is just a fluff book. Not so. Well-written, well-plotted books don't come along all that often. Enjoy this one! I'm off to find the first book in the series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Kate Kennedy Senoir Sleuth Mystery, February 24, 2010

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Tazlvr (VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who Killed Swami Schwartz? (Senior Sleuth Mystery Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the 2nd book in the Kate Kennedy mystery series. I enjoyed this one.
The senior ladies at Ocean Vista can be a riot. Kate gets drawn into investigating who killed Swami Schwartz the founder of the Palmetto Beach Yoga Institute, where everything is fabulous, the dancing, the food etc...that is until Swami steps all over Kate's feet while dancing with her and then he keels over dead as a doornail after someone spikes his drink. Kate again teams up with her best friend and sister in law Marlene for a new mystery and sort through all the suspects to find the killer. You will find Dallas Dalton an interesting character as well.
Kate Kennedy and her friends will make you laugh out loud. It's a quick and cozy fun read and I highly recommed this series.