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Don't Mess with Mrs. Sedgewick
- A Caper Story
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 10 hrs
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Summary
Roberta Sedgewick is stuck in a house that is too empty without her beloved Burton - the rat died and left her with his dog and rooms that rattle. She convinces her three golfing buddies, all in their 70s, to sell their homes and buy adjoining condos. The widows intend to spend the rest of their days golfing, gambling at the casino, and having fun. Oh, the heaven of it.
But then they all hire the same maid who uncovers long-hidden, criminal secrets kept by each woman. Oh, the horror of it. The reputations of their deceased husbands - a banker, a minister, and a respected farmer - will be tarnished forever. Three of the widows could face jail time, and the fourth fears for her life. Whatever will they do with the conniving, blackmailing maid?
Don't Mess with Mrs. Sedgewick is a caper story. Elderly ladies with crimes in their youth catch far worse criminals in the present.
If you grew to love the characters in Marie F. Martin’s previous novels Maternal Harbor, Harbored Secrets, and Ratham Creek, you will treasure Roberta and her friends in the mystery Don’t Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick.
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- Norma Miles
- 18-05-19
Who needs men hanging around?
They obviously breed wealthy golfing widows differently in Montana so close your eyes, hold your nose and jump into a huge tub of suspended disbelief before embarking on this book.
Four seventy something golfing female friends, all now alone, buy a beautifully located new build of four condos in it's own gated community, intending to spend their golden years having fun and supporting each other. Friends for years, they think they know each other. They are wrong. Each hides a secret from the past and trouble starts when a nosy Scottish cleaning lady starts to uncover them.
I guess the intention was to make the four women seem, each in their own ways, feisty and eccentric but for this reader they came over as rather foolish, sometimes pushy and occasionally unpleasant, their whole lives (mostly) having been pampered by husbands who made money and whose reputations they intended to protect. And now they had their second childhood, time to play without the grown ups, including with guns and rifles. Sorry, I couldn't warm to any of then, and they didn't seem to really like each other much ejther.
But they do get themselves in big trouble and, turned into a film, the plot line is just crazy enough to make it good, silly fun. As a book, well, sadly, this reader found little to encourage reading to the end.
The narrator, Beckie White, helped enormously. It was sheer pleasure to listen to her slightly deeper timbre read with good intonation and pacing, enthusiasm in her tone as she gave voice to the various characters. Her delivery was good, apart from her Scottish accents, which must rate as some of the worst I've ever heard. Fortunately, these comprise only a small percentage of the book overall.
My thanks to the rights holder of Don't Mess With Mrs.Sedgewick, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom. Oddball characters I enjoy, but these women were just a step too far with, it seemed, few if any redeeming attributes. Or perhaps it's just that I don't like golf.
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