Nursing Homes Are Murder
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Publisher Description
Paul Jacobson, who suffers from short-term memory loss, becomes an undercover resident at a nursing home to help the Honolulu police track down a sexual assault perpetrator.
The police give Paul the names of three persons-of-interest and Paul begins investigating. None of the three appear suspicious.
Things go downhill when the woman who had been assaulted is found murdered.
Paul meets interesting residents including a woman with synesthesia, a woman who eats soap and a woman who races wheelchairs.
After another sexual assault, someone tries to smother Paul.
Interrupting a third attempted sexual assault, Paul figures out who the culprit is.
The bad guy tries to abduct Paul at gunpoint, but Paul escapes when a resident in an electric wheelchair runs into the bad guy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Befeler's disappointing sixth Geezer-Lit mystery (after 2013's Care Homes Are Murder), the local cops ask octogenarian Paul Jacobson to go undercover at the Pacific Vista Nursing Home in Honolulu, Hawaii, where female residents are being sexually assaulted late at night. They are also being robbed and one woman winds up dead. The cops have several suspects in mind, including Hugh Talbert, the evening cleaning crew's supervisor. Before the crime can be solved, however, the culprit goes after Paul's wife, Marion. The supporting cast Paul's fetching wife; his granddaughter, Jennifer, ever eager to assist him in his sleuthing; and his blind roommate at Pacific Vista are companionable, and Befeler's frankness about Paul and Marion's sex life is refreshing. But Paul's corny jokes grow old, and the repeated discussion of his short-term memory loss (and the diary he uses to outwit it) becomes tiresome. Suspense proves lacking, and the mystery's solution seems to come out of nowhere.
