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Senior Sleuths

Fans of the popular series Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman shouldn't miss these hot readalikes.

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

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  • Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer's evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult…
    BookNew York : Union Square & Co., 2024. — Fiction
  • Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he's the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility.…
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, 2024. — Fiction
  • Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind--back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But…
    BookSeattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2024] — Fiction
  • When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra.
    BookNew York : Bantam Books, [2022] — Fiction
  • When their apartments in Shelley House face demolition, sworn enemies 25-year-old Kat and 77-year-old Dorothy put their differences aside to save their historic building, but when one of its residents is murdered, the duo seek justice to…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2024. — Fiction
  • Suspicious and doubting, Glory Brussard decides to investigate after learning that her best friend, a nun beloved by her Lafayette, Louisiana community has died mysteriously and has been ruled a suicide by the authorities. – description…
    BookNew York, NY : Pegasus Crime, 2023. — Fiction
  • It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a communal home for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had their share of issues (misplaced reading glasses,…
    BookNew York, NY : Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc., 2023. — Fiction
  • Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2023. — Fiction
  • One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon joined in her quest by Suzie, a salt-of-the-earth dog-walker,…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022] — Fiction
  • Meeting weekly in their retirement village's Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case. -description…
    Book[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2020] — Fiction