Overview:At Greener Pastures Retirement Home, leisure time can prove perilous.When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle 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 Myrtle to prevent a murder seen in a vision.Reluctant Myrtle … 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 duo digs, they uncover more than just Sudoku and Scrabble—they discover a sinister undercurrent… with murder as its outcome.
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If you want more Myrtle Clover, please check out the other books in the series: The books can be read out of order, but the technical order of the books is as follows: Pretty is as Pretty Dies, Progressive Dinner Deadly, Dyeing Shame, A Body in the Backyard, Death at a Drop-In, A Body at Book Club, Death Pays a Visit, and A Body at Bunco
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This review is for the audio book.
I love this series and this book is no exception, you can trust Myrtle to bring a smile to your face In this fun book. I had worked out who the killer was but it was sure fun listening to Myrtle working it out. The characters are what I love best about this series, they always find themselves in trouble but are determined to get to the bottom of it. This is book 7 and even through they are stand alone books I think it really helps if you know the background behind the characters, such as things like the long running gnome fight between Myrtle and her son, the history of Pasha the cat and the neighbour, all very funny.
Myrtle has finally been talked into to going to Greener pastures retirement home and it only took the direr threat of a murder to make it happen. Wanda the psychic has seen that someone is going to die, she doesn’t know who,why, when or even who the killer is but she wants Miles and Myrtle to stop it. Myrtle and Miles discover that Wanda just might be on to something and despite there best efforts there’s a murder. Fearing there might just be another murder the pair start to spend a lot of time in the home asking questions and making friends, well Miles does. Can the pair get to the bottom of the mystery before Red finally gets his way and Myrtle is given her very own room?
I did like the narrator but having listened to the previous books it took a while to get use to the new voice and Myrtle just didn’t sound right.
Myrtle Clover has made it no secret that she disdains the Greener Pastures Retirement Home. So the last thing she expects is to willingly walk through their doors. But when Wanda, a trusted friend with the Sight, comes to her and reports that a murder will soon happen at the Home, she finally has some interest in the home.
But when she visits, she discovers a tight-lipped community that doesn’t give up their secrets lightly. Wanda has given details, but they are vague, and Myrtle is unable to prevent the murder. But then she finally gets into her territory of amateur sleuth, and she begins to dig deeper. What she discovers is a web of deceit and secrets that is stickier than she could ever imagine. And with a friend in danger, Myrtle must hurry before another body turns up. But can she survive this clever killer? Or is her time finally up?
At the moment, this is my second favorite Myrtle Clover book. The characters are great, we get more of Myrtle’s history, and there is a surprising twist that left me shocked. This is one of the best books in the series so far, and it was so much fun to heave a change in setting. I don’t think Myrtle is going to live at Greener Pastures anytime soon, but she’ll certainly solve any mystery she can.
If you love Myrtle Clover, this is a great book for you. She’s full of her usual sass, and this time she’s around more of her peers than usual. So there’s plenty of fun dialogue to laugh through, and the setting is unique in the series, with most of the sleuthing taking place in one general area. This is a fun book, and I think you could enjoy this without having read any of the others (though it’s better if you have). This is a fun detective story with a shocking killer. One of my favorites.
Death at a retirement community is only natural right? Not when it’s MURDER! Myrtle has her work cut out for her this time. Not only does she have a murder to solve but she has to keep Miles from wanting to move to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. All in a days work for our octogenarian friend, but when the killer is much closer than she thinks it could be lights out for Myrtle.