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Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.The n a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun),...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read"--
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook naked poker club volume 04
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A forty-year-old art heist with repercussions in the present is the catalyst for yet another adventure for the Naked Poker Club.
Newlyweds Josephine and Norman are moving into their new home in the Brookside Retirement Community when they receive a letter containing a clue to a forty-year-old heist that netted paintings worth over one hundred million dollars. Norman, who has spent a career recovering stolen art, can’t resist the appeal of the mysterious...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club volume 02
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Devi and Mac are falling in love, but a complication comes along in the form of Mac's pregnant ex-wife. As for Josephine, after unmasking the Brookside thief she's finding Brookside Retirement Community (a.k.a. Babbling Brook) as dull as she initially expected it to be. Until, that is, she gets involved with a man who suspects her of being a criminal mastermind. Finding love is something Josephine never expected, as her Edward Hopper painting plays...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook naked poker club volume 03
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josephine Bartlett is back, joined by a colorful cast of friends: her partner in mystery-solving, Lill Fitzel, flamboyant ex-beauty queen, Myrtle Grabinowitz, former attorney/current novelist, Philippa Scott Williamson, Brookside's thief, Edna Prisant, good friends Devi and Mac McElroy, and last, but not least, love-interest Norman Neumann. When new resident, Lottie Watson, loses at Naked Poker, she tells a bizarre story about her husband disappearing...
Author
Series
Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club volume 1
Publisher
Silky Stone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A painting worth millions, valuables gone missing, a game that is more than a game. And that's only the beginning as an elderly widow befriends a young woman and tries to prevent her from making the same mistakes she has made."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
11) Old school
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
481 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an expose: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs-- not least his new endeavor, the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in-- the woman Hendrik has always longed for-- he polishes his shoes...