The Final Amen

The final amen is death! And a comforting cup of tea is Audrey Davis’s last wish.

When Doug Nolan stops by Audrey Davis’s apartment at Hawthorne Meadows Retirement Community to deliver groceries, he discovers that she has taken her final breath, uttered her final prayer, and watched her final sermon as it wafts through the speakers of her ancient television set. Audrey Davis is dead, and murder hangs in the air.

Young, affable, and comfortable in his Kansas City surroundings, Doug Nolan’s world is shaken when he finds the white-haired, kindly Mrs. Davis, slumped over in her recliner. Likewise learning that his former third-grade teacher, the formidable Mrs. Beatrice Crenshaw, also resides at Hawthorne Meadows, Doug follows the clues that lead him to believe that Mrs. Crenshaw is the force behind Audrey’s death. 

Aided by the varied talents of his grandmother’s Bible study group and joined by an unpredictable septuagenarian sidekick, Doug soon finds that things aren’t always what they seem. 

Can a mob-inspired restaurant provide a portal to the past? Can a hidden lockbox expose the dark secrets of a killer’s soul? Can this unassuming grocery delivery driver deliver the goods to put away a cold-blooded killer?