The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp is the first in the new mystery series authored by Leonie Swann. In the author picture on the back cover of the book , Leonie looks way too young to be writing about senior citizens solving mysteries.
This is another book in the new genre of senior citizens who are amateur detectives. In this first book week meet Agnes who is living in her childhood home along with some friends. They have come to live together to avoid the typical end of life experience of living in assisted living and leaving their end of life to chance.
Now the five member so of the house have signed a pact to help each one end their life when the time comes and they do not feel productive anymore., in the meantime they are sharing house hold duties.
When someone ends up dead in the neighborhood Agnes leads the group to help sove the crime. Also living with the group is a tortoise named Hettie who in a way helps solve the crime. An entertaining plot with many twists and turns and quite a number of red herrings along the way.
There are a few experiences that happen in this novel that are quite not believe even with a good dose of imagination.
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