The Retirement Plan
A Novel
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4.0 • 27 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun." —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night
THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut suspense novel that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, in this witty domestic thriller, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.
But when the women discover their husbands have seven-figure life insurance policies, a new dream forms. And this time, they need a hitman.
Meanwhile, their husbands are working on their own secret retirement scheme and when things begin to go sideways, they fear it’s backfired. The husbands scramble to stay alive…but soon realize they may not be quick enough to outmaneuver their wives.
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Canadian TV producer Hincenbergs delivers a sure-footed and deeply funny debut that revolves around a group of friends in their 60s. Five years before the start of the novel, couples Pam and Hank, Shalisa and Andre, Nancy and Larry, and Marlene and Dave lost their life savings in the same misguided investment. In the aftermath, each partner's seldom voiced resentments have put major strains on their marriages. When Dave dies in an apparent accident, his friends are distraught—particularly the husbands. For the last four years, they've been siphoning money from the casino where two of them work with the intention of replacing the money they lost. To them, Dave's death could only be a murder orchestrated by the casino's new boss, who has ties to organized crime in India. The wives, meanwhile, are inspired by the million-dollar life insurance payout Dave's widow, Marlene, receives, and launch a scheme of their own. Readers will turn the pages with glee as the interests of the desperate husbands and determined wives collide with a pack of Mumbai gangsters and a dog-loving private investigator. Hincenbergs knocks it out of the park on her first time at bat.
