Author: J.C. Eaton
Genre: Mystery
Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781960511775
Beyond the Page Publishing
212 Pages
$15.99; $5.99 Amazon
July 15, 2024
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When a dead body shows up in the pin return at Sun City West's bowling alley, it's only the beginning of a tumultuous league season for this retirement community...
With a killer in their midst and a high-tech developer threatening to overhaul their beloved bowling alley, the seniors of Sun City West turn to amateur sleuth Sophie "Phee" Kimball to strike back at both culprits. She's been recruited by her mother's friends before, but this time Phee finds herself pulled in two directions when one of the book club ladies gets tangled in the clutches of a dangerous cyber-scammer who pretends to be the love of her life.
Phee's investigation grows even more complicated when the bowling alley is sabotaged and a flimflammer is found dead in the nearby bushes. With the league tournament in limbo and one of the seniors pegged as the likely murder suspect, Phee will have to cut the cord on the cyber-criminal and pin the killer...before they can strike again...
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Sophie "Phee" Kimball-Gregory works for an Arizona PI firm. She's not an investigator (although her mother Harriet thinks she is), but their bookkeeper, and is happy to be so. Until another murder occurs. And Harriet thinks there's a serial killer on the loose. Which is often. Too often...
A body is discovered in the bushes in Sun City West, where Harriet lives, and it turns out to be a flimflammer, who made money by scamming seniors by getting them to give up their homes and move into a 'retirement home' where they will have it easy for the rest of their lives. But they didn't. And now someone killed him. Was it one of the seniors? Or someone else who hated this man?
But there's more trouble brewing -- Phee is asked by a friend to look into her mother Gloria's activities online, because she thinks her mother is being catfished by someone. So Phee does what she can, even enlisting Rollo, their trusted hacker who loves digging on the dark web. Even if it costs the firm another expensive appliance for Rollo's latest diet.
This is important because the seniors' bowling league has Gloria, and she's a really good bowler, and they want her thinking about bowling, not some guy who's trying to get money out of her (even though he hasn't asked her yet). Is this the end of it? Not by a long shot. A developer wants to "update" the bowling alley to appeal to a younger crowd. In Sun City? Filled with seniors? Yes. But they want to fight back, any way they can. Unfortunately, there's another murder -- hence Harriet thinking a serial killer is after them all. (Here we go again!)
So now Phee and the detectives, who are on the case thanks to the local police hiring them for help, are in the middle of two murders, a catfisher, and the usual antics of Harriet's dog Streetman (A Chiweenie who has no morals and no training), and you have a mystery that keeps you on your toes...
This is the thirteenth book in the series and I have loved them all. Phee is more patient than I would be having to deal with the Sun City seniors, not to mention Nate and her husband Marshall teasing her about it. But we all know eventually all three will be involved before the end of the book. As will Streetman, who creates havoc just by being loose...and this time is no different, with an extremely humorous scene toward the end.
I don't want to say any more about the book as to give anything away that isn't hinted at in the blurb. All I can say is read the book. It's a great mystery, along with plenty of action and, of course, the antics of the seniors throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope that other readers do also. I look forward to the next in the series as well. Highly recommended.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley but this in no way influenced my review.
More on J.C. Eaton's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/e/j-c-eaton/
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