The Alphabet Sleuths

<p><b><i>Disposing of a body is as easy as A, B, C! Introducing the Alphabet Girls, four senior gal pals turned accidental sleuths-</i>The Thursday Murder Club<i> meets </i>The Golden Girls<i>, with a splash of </i>Killers of a Certain Age</b><br><br> At sixty-nine years old, Claire Reynolds is changing things up. She's volunteering. Learning to rollerblade. She's rescued a shelter dog. And today, she's killed a man. It wasn't on her to-do list, but stuff happens.<br><br> Besides, the man in question was strangling her good friend Daphne, and what's a gal to do? Scream, possibly. Call the cops. Or-at retired officer Daphne's insistence-call in the rest of their senior gal pals, roll up the body in a blanket, and toss it off a cliff.<br><br> The dead man is a member of the local crime family, and if the police get involved it's not just Daphne at risk, it's them all.<br><br> But the body's just the start. Soon the Alphabet Girls-Atsuko, Barbara, Claire, and Daphne-must transform into the Alphabet Sleuths, if they're to keep both their liberty . . . and their lives.<br><br> <b>Meet Atsuko Kimura (75, retired journalist), Barbara Wright (age redacted, retired actress), Claire Reynolds (69, retired paralegal), and Daphne Cole (62, retired cop) in the first funny, fast-paced Alphabet Girls Mystery from award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker.</b></p>