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The Alphabet Sleuths

The Alphabet Sleuths

by Laura Jensen Walker

Disposing of a body is as easy as A, B, C! Introducing the Alphabet Girls, four senior gal pals turned accidental sleuths—The Thursday Murder Club meets The Golden Girls, with a splash of Killers of a Certain Age At sixty-nine years old, Claire Reynolds is changing things up. She’s volunteering. Learning to rollerblade. She’s rescued a shelter dog. And today, she’s killed a man. It wasn’t on her to-do list, but stuff happens. Besides, the man in question was strangling her good friend Daphne, and what’s a gal to do? Scream, possibly.

Call the cops. Or—at retired officer Daphne’s insistence—call in the rest of their senior gal pals, roll up the body in a blanket, and toss it off a cliff. The dead man is a member of the local crime family, and if the police get involved it’s not just Daphne at risk, it’s them all. But the body’s just the start. Soon the Alphabet Girls—Atsuko, Barbara, Claire, and Daphne—must transform into the Alphabet Sleuths, if they’re to keep both their liberty . . . and their lives. Meet Atsuko Kimura (75, retired journalist), Barbara Wright (age redacted, retired actress), Claire Reynolds (69, retired paralegal), and Daphne Cole (62, retired cop) in the first funny, fast-paced Alphabet Girls Mystery from award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker.

Genre: Women Sleuths

Reviews

What readers and critics are saying

★★★★★

Move over, Thursday Murder Club—The Alphabet Sleuths are the new game in town!

Maddie Day, author of the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries
★★★★★

Walker’s feisty, funny, and fully realized seniors easily sit beside the casts of The Thursday Murder Club and The Marlow Murder Club in the cozy pantheon. Readers will be charmed

Publishers Weekly
★★★★★

A fun addition to the burgeoning murderous-retirement-community subgenre. Readers will look forward to further adventures of the Alphabet Girls

Library Journal
★★★★★

Full of gentle humor, wild situations, and “senior power” moments . . . An ode to the value of friendship, loyalty, and kindness

Booklist
★★★★★

Wish TV’s Golden Girls had investigated more murders? Here’s your fix

Kirkus Reviews
★★★★★

Well-crafted and suspenseful . . . a celebration of the power and wisdom of women “of a certain age

Amy Patricia Meade, author of the Evelyn Galloway Mysteries and Tish Tarragon Mysteries
★★★★★

Readers will finish this mystery already hungry for more

BookPage Starred Review of Hope, Faith & a Corpse
★★★★★

Charming. Put the kettle on, cozy fans, and settle down for a treat

Catriona McPherson, Anthony Award-winning author, on Hope, Faith & a Corpse