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  • Published: 15 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780440242598
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $16.99

Getting Old Is the Best Revenge



“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….

  • Published: 15 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780440242598
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Rita Lakin

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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Praise for Getting Old Is the Best Revenge

"Gladdy Gold is a treasure, Miss Marple in Yiddish. Salty. Sassy. Sunny."--Carolyn Hart

"If getting old is this much fun, maybe I won't mind! Rita Lakin's witty romp through a Florida retirement community is just the thing for what ails you!"--Parnell Hall