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When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late night visit to Myrtly Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to greener Pastures retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the home's dubious amenities, she wants Myrtly to prevent a murder seen in a vision. reluctant Myrtle investigates with sidekick Miles, who seems a lot more interested in Greener Pastures than she is. As the dup digs, the uncover...
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"Opening her door after midnight launches widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur ino her second murder mystery in less than a year. Brian Hughes, boyfriend to former student Ginny Caerphilly , is standing in her front yard, covered in blood , and talking about "Mississippi" being asleep in the bathroom of the supermarket where he and Ginny work. Time to call in Ginny's dad, Gabe Caerphilly, also Daisy's knight in shining armor and...
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Reluctant amateur detective Esbeth Walters, in her seventies, must face one of her greatest fears when she goes after con artists who are fleecing residents of rest homes. Stir in law enforcers who hope she stumbles, a death that looks anything like the suicide it was ruled, and the presence of a couple of hit men hired out to the mob and you have a stew that makes the tiny Texas town of Fearing a hotter place than usual for her. But she isn't about...
26) Olive Kitteridge
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At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Inspirująca, głośno dyskutowana powieść. Thriller moralny z metafizyczną zagadką, zaskakującą pod każdym względem. Zimą piękna Kotlina Kłodzka jest miejscem mało przyjaznym i opustoszałym. Wsród nielicznych mieszkańców pozostała Janina Duszejko - miłośniczka astrologii, która w wolnych chwilach dogląda domów nieobecnych sąsiadów i tłumaczy poezję Blake'a. Niespodziewanie przez tę spokojną okolicę przetacza się fala...
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When widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur takes up romance writing with a quirky group of aspiring authors, she finds herself tangled in merry mayhem that suddenly turns quite deadly. Instead of pursuing her romantic interests she must go in search of a killer -- or risk becoming the next victim. Enter Gabe Caerphilly, father of one of her old students and a single police lieutenant with Littleton, Colorado's finest.
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"A retired schoolteacher--and yes, daughter of an F. Scott Fitzgerald fan--Daisy Buchanan has finally found her calling in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania. While her husband endlessly renovates their old house, Daisy happily presides over Sometimes a Great Notion, a quirky shop that sells sewing bits and bobs, antiques, and jewelry. Daisy has her eye on an antique dollhouse and a classic Singer Featherweight at the local auction--until...
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Myrtle Clover mystery volume 14
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This book goes from "Tell-all" to "Dead men tell no tales". Retired English teacher Myrtle Clover is frequently asked to proofread for friends. So she wasn't totally surprised when her friend Pearl asked her to take a look at her memoir and polish it up. But before Myrtle could pull out her red pen, Pearl was found murdered. Now Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must track down the memoir and the murderer ... before the killer makes any more final...
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Suffering through 25 years of an indifferent marriage, Samantha Lisowski realizes that getting involved in murder might just be the best thing that ever happened to her. Retired Chicago school teacher, she now hosts a monthly community TV program while pursuing a writing career. At a writing seminar in Chicago, she stumbles onto a dead body and when the killer believes that Samantha can identify him, her own life is suddenly in danger. To worsen...
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