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Mid-Life Can Be Murder |
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Books for
Mid-Lifers |
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Nora Charles (aka
Noreen Wald) |
Best-selling
author Noreen
Wald is
Executive Vice
President of the
Mystery Writer's
of America's
national board
of directors and
President of the
MWA Mid-Atlantic
chapter. She has
published seven
successful
mystery novels
and two
non-fiction
books. Her new
series, written
as Nora Charles,
debuted with
Death with an
Ocean View . The
latest release,
Death is a
Bargain, is now
in
bookstores.The
novels star Kate
Kennedy as a
modern Ms.
Marple.
The
Detective
Once a snowbird,
now a full-time
resident and
sometime sleith,
Kate Kennedy is
a stylish and
sophisticated
Miss Marple,
seeking justice
in sunny South
Florida instead
of a rainy
English Village.
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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.
The
Detective
She’s not
Miss Marple.
Her friends
are no
Charlie’s
Angels.
Nevertheless,
75-year-old
Gladdy Gold
and her gang
of eccentric
Fort
Lauderdale
retirees are
out, about,
and hunting
down
killers.
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Jane Isenberg |
Jane Isenberg
taught English to
urban community
college students
for close to
thirty years. She
has been writing
mysteries ever
since she
experienced her
first hot flash.
Her copies of
Modern Maturity
are delivered to
her new home in
Amherst,
Massachusetts,
that she shares
with her husband
Phil Thompkins.
The
Detective:
Bel Barrett is a
50 something
menopausal
professor and
part time
sleuth. Bel is
assisted in her
investigations
by her friends
Betty and
Illuminada.
Bel is an
estrogen-enhanced
embodiment of
the modern
midlife woman.
She cares for
aging parents,
parents adult
children, earns
a living, and
maintains a love
relationship.
She's so easy to
identify with
that, while my
friends think
she's my alter
ego, all the
rest of my
readers are
certain she's
theirs. Except
that she solves
murders.
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