Great Elderly Lead Character Fiction!
Discover captivating fiction with elderly lead characters! Explore our curated list of books featuring inspiring and heartwarming stories centered around older protagonists.
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Death for Dessert
by T. Dawn Richard
Here's a wry, witty, cozy mystery in the tradition of Carolyn Hart's "Henrie O." mysteries, featuring a feisty senior sleuth who finds blackmail and a …
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A Wrinkle in Crime
by T. Dawn Richard
When sixty-seven years old May Bell List reads in the Spokane about the death of Gerty Peach from a heart attack, she has problems accepting …
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Digging Up Otis
by T. Dawn Richard
May Bell List is back in action when one of the Waning Years Estates residents goes missing.
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Retirement Homes Are Murder
by Mike Befeler
Octogenarian Paul Jacobson must overcome the limitations of short term memory loss and the restrictions of living in a retirement home in Hawaii in order …
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On the Warpath
by Gerald Hammond
After a long life marked by service in the French Resistance, a successful journalism career, and raising her grandson, David, Helen Drysdale abandons her retirement …
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Epitaph
by James Siegel
Following a dangerous string of clues, Riskin finds himself in hot pursuit of a little-known World War II criminal named Dr. Petoit, who, after promising …
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Granny
by Anthony Horowitz
Twelve-year-old Joe Warden isn't happy. He has rich, uncaring parents and is virtually a prisoner in the huge family mansion, Thattlebee Hall. Worst of all, …
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Tricky Business
by Dave Barry
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida …
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Hit and Run
by Gerald Hammond
Luke Grant enjoys his comfortable life. But when the widowed wife of his grandson is badly injured in a hit-and-run accident, it is up to …
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Getting Old Is Murder
by Rita Lakin
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, …
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Getting Old is the Best Revenge
by Rita Lakin
When two cases collide with a third and the girls at the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency win a luxury bingo cruise, Gladdy hits the jackpot. …
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Getting Old is to Die for
by Rita Lakin
Florida's oldest living private detective, Gladdy Gold is juggling poolside gossip, a boyfriend, and a thriving detective business, but a trip north with her sister …
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Death Rides the Surf
by Nora Charles
When her granddaughter Katharine drops out of college and arrives in Florida, taking up with a gang of surfers, Kate Kennedy must come to her …