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The Granddaughters: Always
by Margaret Belle
Richard Osman's pensioners prove that age and warmth can sharpen a sleuth rather than soften one, and Margaret Belle builds her Orange Lake mystery on exactly that conviction. Three older women take in a terrified eight-year-old who witnessed a killing but cannot speak a word, and the case turns on protecting the child rather than dissecting the corpse. The result keeps the genuine affection and found-family glow that makes the Thursday Murder Club such good company, but threads it with a real undercurrent of danger, since the killer knows the one witness who could name him is now living under three sharp, underestimated women's roof. For readers who want amateur detectives with backbone and a strong sense of small-town place, it's a warm, suspenseful next case.
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