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Carol dreads her husband Jim's upcoming retirement more than a root canal without Novocain. She can't imagine anything worse than having an at-home husband with time on his hands and nothing to fill it -- except interfering in the day-to-day activities of their household and driving her crazy. Until her plans to stall Jim's retirement result in her husband being suspected of murdering his retirement advisor.
 
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prasadkaladi | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 30, 2022 |
Carol dreads her husband Jim's upcoming retirement more than a root canal without Novocain. She can't imagine anything worse than having an at-home husband with time on his hands and nothing to fill it -- except interfering in the day-to-day activities of their household and driving her crazy. Until her plans to stall Jim's retirement result in her husband being suspected of murdering his retirement advisor.
 
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prasadkaladi | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 30, 2022 |
Against her will, Carol Andrews agreed to be on a committee planning the fortieth anniversary of graduation from Mount Saint Francis Academy. Joining her are her three best friends from those school days, all of whom had remained friends.
The school, located in a beautiful old mansion, had been turned into a senior living facility. The night before the reunion, the committee members decided to sleep there, partly for memories and partly to be able to get an early start on the preparations. As Carol and her best friend Nancy opened the door to their room, they discover that it was not locked. They entered the room and discovered someone was already sleeping there. A closer inspection revealed that the person was dead.
The story then went into flashback.
Before the first committee meeting, another classmate, Meg, showed up and demanded to be on the committee as well. Carol had very unpleasant memories of her. Entering high school divided the her and her three friends as they got involved in different groups, but she blamed Meg for her worst experience. She decided to let bygones be bygones and invited her to the first meeting. The woman showed up for the first meeting, bringing three other classmates with her. She inquired about the others at the meeting but said nothing about herself.
It turned out the other three friends also had negative feelings about Meg as well. Because the group refused to adopt one of Meg’s suggestions for the reunion, she stopped attending the meetings.
Later questions arose about what Meg had been doing the past forty years.
Back to the dead woman in Carol’s room. At first the coroner ruled her death a suicide. But Carol and her friends didn’t believe that. They decided to verify.
Meanwhile, a book was coming out the day of the reunion, an expose of life in a Catholic girls’ high school. The author was unknown but the picture on the cover was Mount Saint Francis Academy. Needless to say, the class members were very upset.
As many people who attend class reunions might have experienced, in many ways while people have changed, the members often revert to their old behaviors. That was true in CLASS REUNIONS CAN BE MURDER.
After the story ended, Susan Santangelo added an essay about bullying by girls that has some very important information. She also added several recipes, based on food served at the reunion, that have both the original recipe and revised ones with fewer calories.
The story moved fairly well. There are witticisms and puns galore. Most of them related to getting old even though they were only fifty eight. Examples included “Jim always made the morning coffee. It was one of the few perks (pun intended) of his being retired.”
Each chapter opened with a humorous observation: “I got great news at the supermarket the other day. Campbell’s alphabet soup now comes in a large type version.”
“I changed my computer password to ‘incorrect.” That way, if I log in with the wrong one, the computer will tell me, ‘Your password is incorrect....’”

One big editing error had Carol leaving her dog in her car for several hours and then when she got home, her husband told her what he had been doing with the dog.
Santangelo also unnecessarily referred incidents in previous books in the series.
The mansion had been donated to the local nuns with the stipulation that “the building be used primarily to educate and nurture young women.” The book didn’t explain how the nuns were able to convert it legally into a senior residence.
This book was a free download.
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Judiex | 2 reseñas más. | Sep 17, 2019 |
It's a cozy murder mystery that also explores becoming empty nesters and/or downsizing a home--which involves saying goodbye to a house that you love. There are even some tips about considering a move at the end of the fiction book.

As with most cozy mysteries, I do wonder how long the series can sustain itself when the amateur sleuth is investigating murders when she really has no reason to be around so many murdered people or have so many friends who are accused of murdering someone. Though I do understand the desire to help friends and family who are wrongly accused.

There were some formatting issues in the kindle copy.
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JenniferRobb | otra reseña | May 14, 2017 |

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9
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Miembros
205
Popularidad
#107,802
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
9
ISBNs
11

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