Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she's already
traveled and planted a garden. She's organized her photos, her recipes,
and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more
decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do . . .
JANE DARROWFIELD, PROFESSIONAL BUSYBODY
After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to
spread around her bridge club--and then around all of West Cambridge,
Massachusetts--that she's the go-to girl for situations that need
discreet fixing. Soon she has her first paid assignment--the director of
a 55-and-over condo community needs her to de-escalate hostilities among
the residents. As Jane discovers after moving in for her undercover
assignment, the mature set can be as immature as any high schoolers, and
war is breaking out between cliques.
It seems she might make some progress--until one of the aging "popular
kids" is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. And though the automatic
sprinklers have washed away much of the evidence, Jane's on course to
find out whodunit . . .