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Gladdy Gold Books in Order

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Read Rita Lakin's Gladdy Gold books in order, following a Florida retiree and her eccentric friends as their detective agency tackles murder and mysteries.

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Gladdy Gold books in publication order

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9 books

1

Getting Old is Murder

by Rita Lakin

2005

When neighbors at her Fort Lauderdale retirement community die in suspiciously similar circumstances, seventy-five-year-old Gladdy Gold suspects murder. She and her outspoken friends investigate despite a skeptical detective, hoping to stop whoever is targeting their circle.

2

Gladdy Gold's retirement-community detective agency juggles a wandering husband, a flasher, and murders involving wealthy Florida wives. Winning tickets for a bingo cruise puts the friends aboard a ship where their investigation becomes dangerously personal.

3

Getting Old is Criminal

by Rita Lakin

2007

Gladdy Gold investigates a wealthy woman's death and a charming older man with a suspicious romantic history. Going undercover with her sister Evvie becomes hazardous when Evvie's attraction to the suspect threatens both judgment and safety.

4

Getting Old is To Die For

by Rita Lakin

2007

A visit to New York pulls Gladdy Gold and her fellow retirement-community detectives into another investigation. Meanwhile, boyfriend Jack Langford reopens the unsolved murder of Gladdy's husband, confronting her with a painful mystery from her past.

5

Getting Old is a Disaster

by Rita Lakin

2008

A bank robber challenges Gladdy Gold's detective agency to catch him, while a hurricane uncovers an old skeleton at their retirement complex. The discovery sends Gladdy and her friends searching for a killer with buried secrets.

6

Gladdy Gold's wedding plans are unsettled when a glamorous Frenchwoman from Jack Langford's past reappears. Romantic jealousy becomes only part of the problem when the visitor faces a murderous threat and Jack becomes involved in protecting her.

7

Getting Old Can Kill You

by Rita Lakin

2011

Gladdy Gold wants her new husband to join her detective agency, prompting her friends to consider working independently. When a new resident's murder revives a decades-old romantic rivalry, the divided investigators must confront a troubling suspect.

8

Getting Old Can Hurt You

by Rita Lakin

2018

Ida's estranged teenage granddaughter interrupts the friends' deli lunch, claiming that dangerous men are pursuing her. Gladdy Gold's agency investigates, but the girl's secrecy and a history of family resentment complicate efforts to keep her safe.

9

Gladdy Gold and her fellow senior detectives travel to Key West to investigate a lawyer's suspicious death. Their clients' claim that Ernest Hemingway's ghost witnessed it complicates the case, while another mystery unfolds back home.

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