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Murder at Harbor Village

A Cleo Mack Mystery, Book 1

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Murder at Harbor Village

By: G.P. Gardner
Narrated by: Karen White
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Young retiree Cleo Mack is trading in academia for a second act in Harbor Village, a community for active seniors in coastal Alabama. But someone in this picture-perfect coastal town is burning the candle at both ends...

It's love at first sight when Cleo arrives in Fairhope, Alabama, after taking early retirement from her longtime position as professor of social work. Touted as "the nicest town in the world," Fairhope is home to an eclectic community of retirees. Harbor Village boasts classes in painting, pottery, and photography, not to mention being a buyer's market for husbands. It seems an ideal place to make new friends and rediscover life. Until a dead body is found in the pool.

When the victim turns out to be the unpopular director of senior living, Cleo is named acting director. Now she must rely on her well-honed people skills to uncover a killer in a place where short-term memory isn't what it used to be, and age is just a number. And if Cleo keeps snooping around, her number may soon be up....

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Good discription helps you put your self into the scene. Good mystery to keep your interest

Nice easy listening

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I want to say I enjoyed this book and for the most part I did but it was just too long winded for me. Going into a lot of detail about running the retirement community complex, which was interesting but not relevant to the mystery and I got this book because it was a mystery. You had to sort out what was to do with the mystery and what was just background noise. I did like the characters and Cleo never let anything fluster her, making her a good main character. The kitties a must for most cozy mysteries were present and while fun were another thing that took her away from the murder investigation. The mystery was good and did take a number of twists but I wouldn't say that Cleo never really investigated the murder and more stumbled over information. I would probably listen to another book in this series but not in any great hurry to do so.
When Cleo is offered early retirement from her teaching job, she decides to visit her daughter while she thinks about it and stumbles on a new job, a new place to live and new friends. The only problem is she hasn't even unpacked her moving boxes of started her new job before the director of senior living is found floating in the pool and Cleo is asked to take over her role. It doesn't take her long to work out something is a miss at the retirement community and the previous director could have been murdered because of what she discovered. Can Cleo whip the remaining staff into shape and save the community or does the problems run to deep. Just how far would somebody to go make sure there secrets stay hidden?
I liked the narrator. There was a lot of characters in this book and some how she managed to make them all sound different.

New life+ new job =murder investigation

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A very relaxing story well written and enjoyable characters .I would certainly listen to more from this author

A very relaxing story

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