In this, the second of the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery series, cantankerous octogenariam Paul Jacobson must solve two murders while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. As Paul ends up suspiciously close to a bank robbery, kidnapping and drug bust, his granddaughter Jennifer helps him track down the real perpetrators. Paul juggles two girlfirends, experiences the quirks of ald age romance and must find a way to stay alive when he confronts the murderer.
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In Befeler's cleverly plotted if somewhat sleepy second cozy (after 2007's Retirement Homes Are Murder), 85-year-old crime magnet Paul Jacobson, who suffers from short-term memory loss, moves from Hawaii to Boulder, Colo., to live with his middle-aged son, his son's wife and their 12-year-old daughter. On the plane, Paul sits next to a sales representative for Colorado Mountain Retirement Properties, who's dead by flight's end from what's later determined to be a martial arts body blow delivered while most other passengers were asleep. Once in Boulder, Paul attends a CMRP presentation, where the speaker winds up dead with a broken neck. Suspecting CMRP is involved in fraud, Paul launches an investigation with the help of his aspiring sleuth granddaughter that grows to include other cases. Adding spice is Paul's old girlfriend from Hawaii, who admires Paul of the Geezer Enforcement Squad for not letting age or disability get in the way of his living life to its fullest. (Apr.)
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It's hard to beat a team that includes a wisecracking old fart and a straight-talking young sprout, and Befeler's second geezer-lit entry delivers. --Kirkus Review
This is a book that I whizzed through in a very short time.The efforts of the protagonist, Paul Jacobson, to extricate himself from police suspicion were interesting and well done. --I Love A Mystery
In Colorado-based Befeler's second series cozy (after Retirement Homes Are Murder), 80-year-old Paul, suffering short-term memory loss, wakes up in his son's home and is accused of murder. --Library Journal
This will make you laugh often. --Fort Collins Coloradoan
This "Geezer-Lit" amateur sleuth is a fun tale as Paul overcomes his handicap and age through his journal and his courage to keep going while wisecracking all the way including takings shots at himself and his lawyer. --The Mystery Gazette
This is a book that I whizzed through in a very short time.The efforts of the protagonist, Paul Jacobson, to extricate himself from police suspicion were interesting and well done. --I Love A Mystery
In Colorado-based Befeler's second series cozy (after Retirement Homes Are Murder), 80-year-old Paul, suffering short-term memory loss, wakes up in his son's home and is accused of murder. --Library Journal
This will make you laugh often. --Fort Collins Coloradoan
This "Geezer-Lit" amateur sleuth is a fun tale as Paul overcomes his handicap and age through his journal and his courage to keep going while wisecracking all the way including takings shots at himself and his lawyer. --The Mystery Gazette
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In the May, 2008, issue of the AARP Bulletin Mike Befeler was identified as one of four authors in a new emerging mystery sub-genre. Harlan Coben, president of Mystery Writers of America stated, "We've just scratched the surface on geezer-lit. It could be the next frontier in crime fiction." Mike turned his attention to fiction writing after a career in high technology marketing. His debut novel, RETIREMENT HOMES ARE MURDER, was published January, 2007. The second novel in his Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series, LIVING WITH YOUR KIDS IS MURDER, appeared April, 2009. LIVING WITH YOUR KIDS IS MURDER has been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Lefty Award for the best humorous mystery novel published in 2009. The third book in the series, SENIOR MOMENTS ARE MURDER, was published August, 2011. Mike is active in organizations promoting a positive image of aging. He holds a Master's degree from UCLA and a Bachelor's degree from Stanford. He grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now lives in Boulder, Colorado. Mike is vice-president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
amusing "Geezer-Lit" amateur sleuth,
This review is from: Living with Your Kids Is Murder: A Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)
Having proven that RETIREMENT HOMES ARE MURDER with the help of a close blind friend Meyer and an Asperger's sufferer Henry, octogenarian Paul Jacobson leaves Hawaii to live with his son Denny, his daughter-in-law Allison and his twelve years old granddaughter Jennifer in Boulder. Paul suffers from a short term memory issue in which he loses all recall of what happened once he falls asleep. Due to Meyer he knows to write down the highlight film in his journal to inform the old geezer what is going on.
On the plane he dozed off before jotting anything down that occurred in flight. When he awakens he pushes his row companion off his shoulder only to realize the man is dead. He is the prime suspect in the martial arts chop to the neck death of Daniel Reynolds, a sales representative for Colorado Mountain Retirement Properties. Paul visits the Centennial Community Center to hear a pitch from another Colorado Mountain Retirement Properties rep Randall Swathes. Afterward, he finds the man dead in his car. Paul is the prime suspect. Soon he becomes accused of several other crimes. With his granddaughter as his lawyer, Paul investigates the two homicides while struggling to remember the identities of the two "young" women in his life. The second "Geezer-Lit" amateur sleuth is a fun tale as Paul overcomes his handicap and age through his journal and his courage to keep going while wisecracking all the way including taking shots at himself and his lawyer. The story line contains several crimes besides the murder that either Paul or Jennifer resolve as he seems to step in it all the time. Readers will enjoy this fine cozy summarized nicely by overworked Boulder Police Detective Launo who says Paul is a crime wave as the prime suspect in 25% of his case load and that does not include the homicide on the jet (investigated by Detective Hamilton). Harriet Klausner
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Living with Your Kids Is Murder (Wheeler Cozy Mystery) (Paperback)
First Line: My eyes opened in the dim light.
In this second book in the "Geezer Lit" mystery series, 85-year-old Paul Jacobson has left the nursing home in Hawaii and has flown to Boulder, Colorado, to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and 12-year-old granddaughter. Unfortunately the passenger sitting next to him on the plane is dead by journey's end, and since Paul was seen arguing with him, the folks in law enforcement are looking at him with very narrowed eyes. It just so happens that Paul has short-term memory loss. Every time he goes to sleep, he wakes up with his mind wiped clean of recent events, so he's not much help when he's questioned-- and it makes him cranky. When he attends a Colorado Mountain Retirement Properties presentation (the company the dead man on the plane worked for), another CMRP employee is killed, and Paul is convinced that the property company is at the bottom of it all. In no time, he and his granddaughter, Jennifer, set out to find a killer. This series is laced with humor, and at the heart of it is the wisecracking old fart, Paul Jacobson. He's learned to minimize the effects of his memory loss by writing the day's events in a journal each night and then reading it when he gets up in the morning. When he arrives at his son's home, the first thing he does is ask his daughter-in-law Allison what the family's daily routine is, and what chores he can take care of. Allison gives him dog-walking duty, and his walks not only let him get acquainted with the neighborhood and the town, they have a tendency to get him in hot water. You see, every time Paul turns around, he's being pinned with committing a crime-- theft, chopping down trees, using bad language and gestures around small boys-- the list is long and confirms the fact that he is a crime magnet. Each and every time he's questioned by the police, he can't help making wisecracks, and I can picture the twinkle in his eye as he does it. The police are not amused, but Paul's got a secret weapon on his side: his very bright, very forthright, and very devious granddaughter. The two of them together make quite the team. The identity of the killer in this book was rather easy for me to deduce, but that's not the focus of Living With Your Kids Is Murder. The real focus is Paul Jacobson himself. Mike Befeler has given us a feisty character with a disability that would make many others in his shoes give up and plant themselves in a chair by the window so they can stare glumly outside day after day feeling sorry for themselves. Paul refuses to do this. He has close and loving relationships with the members of his family, he makes friends easily and helps them as much as he can... he even winds up with two girlfriends, and by book's end is ready for yet another adventure. Paul Jacobson will not go quietly into that good night, and we readers are the richer for it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Quite as Good as Retirement Homes Are Murder,
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This review is from: Living with Your Kids Is Murder: A Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)
Mike Befeler has brought back Paul Jacobson and his brain that resets his recent memory as he awakens each morning. Paul can remember in minute detail most of his life up to six years ago, but asked him what happened before he closed his eyes and nodded off and he can't remember a thing. This time Paul awakens on a plane, annoyed by a passenger leaning on him he pushes him away then wonders exactly where he is. While he ponders this it becomes apparent to others that the guy Paul pushed is dead. Unbeknownst to Paul, earlier in the flight he had an argument with the deceased which is passed onto the police along with his supposed violence towards that passenger when he woke up. Also unbeknownst to Paul he is flying from Hawaii to live with his son's family for a while, which includes his twelve year old wannabe lawyer grand daughter Jennifer. She reminds him of the crimes they solved together back in Hawaii when she came to visit and of his writing journal to remember the recent past. When he stumbles upon a scam ripping off retirees, Paul is determined to get to the bottom of it. However along the way Paul just seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, time and time again when crimes are occurring. Of course he can't remember if he did any of it or not but reading his journal writing each morning is sure he didn't. Of course the police aren't so sure he's innocent. It's up to Jennifer to remind him, and for Paul to do the legwork in solving each crime to clear Paul's name.
It's not a bad story, has a bit of a cheesy convenient doorbell related happenings at the end which the story probably would have been better without. It also lacks something without the other old age eccentric characters from the Kina Nani, Hawaiian retirement complex in the first novel. We know from this novel his next adventure isn't going to be back there, but lets hope there's plenty of other eccentric elderlys on board for the third novel in the series. They just made that book funnier than this one.
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