Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux

Gladdy Gold #6

by Rita Lakin

Gladdy Gold finds out that she has a competitor wanting to steal Jack langford away from her. She's a gorgeous younger redhead from France.

Not only that, but there is a killer wanting to murder the Frenchwoman, and Jack is the only one who can save her.

Thrills and chills. Don't miss it!

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Ebooks, Suspense, Detective, Womens

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 24, 2009

About the author

After being widowed at a young age with three small children, Rita Lakin began an extensive writing career, which has included staff writing on television programs such as Peyton Place, Mod Squad, Dynasty, and Strong Medicine, as well as creating original series such as The Rookies. She has won an Edgar Allen Poe award for her screenwriting, as well as receiving several other award nominations, and her two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossingers, are still being produced around the country.

Series:
* Gladdy Gold

Reviews

[Cissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gladdy and Jack are headed for the altar... until a mysterious woman from his past shows up, and not only adds the expected romantic complications, but also brings along a master assassin out to kill her and steal the only copy of her latest expose. Complications ensue!

The mystery is decently done. Some of the subplots seemed off to me, like that of Gladdy's sister and her ex-husband. I did appreciate learning something of Ida's backstory.

Mildly recommended if you are reading the series.

[Val · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oy. There were times I had to put the book down and walk away for a moment. Jack was an idiot, (there i said it) and Gladdy was so strong to deal with it. She had moments where I thought she would give up and walk away (I would have) but she's stronger than me. The girls are yentas through and through but we love them any way. Thank goodness it had a happy ending.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gladddy Gold forever!!

Full review in progress ...

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book six in the series finds one of Jack's old girlfriends flying over to Florida from Paris for a book signing. Of course, they end up meeting at the signing and he finds out that her life is in danger, due to the "tell all" books she writes. He is manipulated into standing guard over her, much to Gladys dismay. Will this make or break their relationship? We are also given a little more insight into Ida's past, which I am sure will be the main point of the next book. Can't help but like this over 70 senior citizen private eye group!

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful read

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve been loving this series, so far. They’re not the highest of high brow literature by any means, but they’re fun and fast reads. I love cozy mysteries, in particular the ones that involve amateur sleuths and their pets but I wanted something different and came across these in a used bookstore. Gladdy and her girls are the best and it makes me long for retirement the entire time I’m reading. This book was particularly entertaining because we get to learn more about Jack AND Ida, this time around. Jack gets the focus, with a side plot involving Ida, Sophie and Bella. I appreciated the breaks in POVs that are sprinkled throughout the book; it’s easy for cozy series to feel monotonous and the POV changing helps to avoid that. My one complaint is that it ends too abruptly. I would’ve liked an epilogue or something with this one.

[Joyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not used to Glady being someone else other than the detective. And just went the story reached climax at the part when it reveals that The Snake is not dead yet, the story ended abruptly, and unreasonably. But this is still fun to read though, how Rita describes the relationship between Glady and Jack.

[Susan Jo Grassi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books. To think of a group of little old ladies, I can say this as I am one, solving crimes and doing all kinds of silly things, is a hoot, not to mention the humor and fun mixed with danger and romance is just a great read for those of us who can relate. More Gladdy Gold please!

[Vicki Gooding · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh wow, in my personal opinion these books never seem to loose their fun. This book is a bit different than the others. A jaw dropping diva from Jack's past comes back into his life. While he's struggling with emotional tug-of-war issues the mystery revolves around the diva. It would have been inappropriate for the girls to become too involved in this one, as Gladdy herself had to work on emotions while Jack acted like a wet noodle. This was a fast intriguing read, and I absolutely loved it. This author really is so talented.

[Valdez · Rating 3 out of 5]

No sooner than Gladdy and Jack get engaged does a glamourous French ex-girlfriend show up in Florida. The ex is now a popular writer who digs up the dirt on companies, so it's no surprise that her life is in danger.

In the meantime, Sophie and Bella are acting mysterious, going off to secret meetings and Ida is feeling left out and angry.

[Josi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was basically Jack's book. Gladdy didn't do much.

[Priscilla Herrington · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another romp with Gladdy and her troops!

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[Karen Cartlidge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun mystery book -- felt like I was reading about the Golden Girls -- lots of laughs and good light mystery. I'd like to find more in this series.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

An old girlfriend of Jack's shows up and of course, she is up to no good! This is another fun story by Rita Lakin!

[Sandy Cosser · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful. Awful. One dimensional characters and characters acting out of character. How many 80-year-old women giggle like school girls and generally act like teenagers on a ridiculously regular basis?

[Cherise Deeley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book very much

[Jean Kovats · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice people I would love to know if they were real. Good plot nice ending

[Suspense Magazine · Rating 4 out of 5]

What fun! Rita Lakin and her eccentric cast of young-at-heart, golden agers is just this side of perfect as their harebrained, unexpected antics make you wish you could move in right next door. Though light on mystery, the heavy hand of humor makes following Gladdy and team in this entertaining cozy an outstanding escapade.

Following a hurricane of disastrous proportions, life at Lanai Gardens has finally settled down. Gladdy Gold and her beau, Jack are headed to the altar and their friends and family are all doing as well as can be expected—considering everyone’s advanced age. Life is simply perfect until an impulsive trip to a book fair brings a gorgeous Frenchwoman back into Jack’s life. Still holding a flame for Jack, this stunning and successful author wants to continue the white-hot relationship where it left off years before. She only has eyes for the “one that got away” and isn’t focused on the very real threat to her life that her undercover work and books have brought about. Gladdy, on the other hand, wants the mystery solved and the wannabe home wrecker on the first plane back to Paris so she takes the high ground to logically help solve the case.

Reviewed by Shannon Raab with Suspense Magazine
www.suspensemagazine.com

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

#6 in the Gladdy Gold series. Representative of the series about a group of geriatric women in a Florida condo complex. This is a fun to read time killer.

Gladdy Gold series - Gladdy and Jack are finally headed for the altar, when a trip to a book fair brings Jack face-to-face with an old flame. Michelle duBois is a beautiful, bestselling, muckraking French author with whom Jack had a summer romance after the death of his first wife. The subjects of her investigations are not happy with her and have hired a hitman who has mistakenly attacked Michelle's niece. Michelle asks 'her Jacques' to protect her. Jack fears Gladdy's anger but Gladdy determones to take the high road and catch the hitman.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Glad Gold has just decided to remarry her retired-cop suitor Jack. But that's when an old flame of Jack's reappears. Actually, Michelle is not old (that's part of the problem): She's a young, gorgeous and a best-selling French author of exposes--and her life is being threatened. What's more, she wants Jack to protect her from a nameless, faceless hired killer. As though that weren't enough trouble for Glad's senior citizen detective agency, Bella and Sophie get involved with a guru at the local deli who channels the voices of dead husbands. When their cynical friend Ida tries to debunk the guru, she ends up revealing deep-seated and painful secrets about her own life.

[Jeannie and Louis Rigod · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say about "Getting Old Is Tres Dangereaux?" It was superb, magnifique! Oh la la...the French. Of course, I'm heavily prejudiced having married a Frenchman from Lyon area.

The romantic tension included with the mystery which turned into a murder or two and humor...what more can you want in a book? More, that is what I wanted...I did not want the book to end.

And, the ending? Well, you have to find out for yourselves, however, it was highly, highly, satisfying!

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux! I am a big fan of the Gladdy Gold mysteries and this one is no exception! There's not much mystery, but a lot on the love triangle between Gladdy, Jack and Michelle. Still the mystery part is quite good, but it ended a bit too abruptly for my taste!
Of course Gladdy's sister and friends are also doing their thing, and I loved that we are getting to know more about Ida!
The double wedding was a great idea and finally Gladdy and Jack tie the knot!

[Linda Appelbaum · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am working my way through the Gladdy Gold series and it is enjoyable to read something light now and then. this book was not a favorite because of all the French expressions which I can do without in a book. Gladdy's fiance is more involved in solving the case than Gladdy and her gals this time but he is working on a case involving an ex lover which puts Gladdy in an uncomfortable position. The nicest part of this book is that she and Jack finally tie the knot!

[Spuddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just like most other series mysteries I've been reading lately this one has gotten a bit tired and old as it's gone on, despite really enjoying the first few. It was okay and I do enjoy these characters but I will likely leave plenty of time before I read the next one. Just too predictable.

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn’t find this one as good as her others – there was too much “Jewish” and “French” phrases with no definitions so often I couldn’t understand whatever was going on – also the little old ladies detectives weren’t really doing any detecting in anything important --- sort of cute though!

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books!!!

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute premise. Interesting enough to get me to read others in the series.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not nearly as good as the others in this series . . . fewer funny moments, more cliches, and Gladdy is barely involved in the mystery

[Courtney Sheets · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun series although it takes time to get used to the tense and the headhopping