Retirement Plan: A Crime Novel by Martha Miller
Martha Miller's detective novel heroine is like Prime Suspect, if Jane Tennison had been a lesbian.
—Take one desperate-for-money, aging lesbian sniper who needs to support her partner, and a lady detective on her trail.
Throw in a mother w/Alzheimer’s, a crotchety old PI partner who's about to retire, and stick them all in Florida. What could go wrong?
Miller's writing is convincing and effortless, the characters realistic and relatable:
“Her marriage had been a good one. Foolishly, she’d walked away from it because of her neighbor's wife, which sounded like a goddamned cliché.”
Martha, one of my favorite authors from the Best American Erotica series, has always been adept at questions of morality, and the world of women "of a certain age." With her sense of humor, mixed into an entertaining detective yarn, you can't lose.
Narrated by the yummy Bernadette Dunne.
