Sally S.
Nice start to a new series. Good to read about a woman of a certain age, living a real life, and not a caricature. Jane retired a year ago and she’s done everything on her bucket list and now she’s bored, wondering if this is it for excitement in her life. Well, turns out that Jane has always liked to poke her into the business of others and help them, and she’s been pretty successful at it. So when an opportunity presents itself for her to do this as a real job, maybe a new career, she accepts the challenge. Jane temporarily moves into a retirement community – undercover, or at least for a while - to try and figure what’s causing all the difficulties. It feels like going back to high school with the cliques, popular kids, jocks . . . or maybe middle school judging by some of the residents’ antics. But it turns out to be more than immature behavior and antics when someone is murdered. Throw in some romance, family issues, danger, humor, and lots and lots of secrets and twists and turns and what you end up with is a very entertaining mystery with a full cast of characters and a good start to a fun, new series. Thanks to author Barbara Ross for providing an audiobook copy of Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody for my listening pleasure. All opinions are my own.