listened on Audible
363 pgs.
2025
Adult mystery
Finished 5/14/2025
Goodreads rating: 4.30
My rating: 3.5
Setting: contemporary Purity, Maine, on the shore of a lake in a small tourist town on the ocean.
Adult mystery
Finished 5/14/2025
Goodreads rating: 4.30
My rating: 3.5
Setting: contemporary Purity, Maine, on the shore of a lake in a small tourist town on the ocean.
My comments: Susan and her daughter have come to her wealthy new i-laws "cabin" to spread the ashes of her deceased father-in-law. When her daughter goes missing, the female police chief, Joe, as well as "the martini club", a group of retired CIOA operatives, get to work on the case. Pretty slow-moving story, and quite difficult to like any of the characters! Note: The town cop, Jo, seems to be somewhat of an idiot.
Goodreads synopsis: When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything.
Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance.
After a teenager vanishes—and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect—she joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to long-buried secrets.
As Jo grapples with two unexplained mysteries, the Martini Club races to uncover the truth behind shadowy secrets…before more lives are lost.
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