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Don't Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick: A Caper Story Kindle Edition

by Marie F. Martin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Roberta Sedgewick is stuck in a house that is too empty without her beloved Burton—the rat died and left her with his dog and rooms that rattle. She convinces her three golfing buddies, all in their seventies, to sell their homes and buy adjoining condos. The widows intend to spend the rest of their days golfing, gambling at the casino, and having fun. Oh, the heaven of it. But then they all hire the same maid who uncovers long-hidden criminal secrets kept by each woman. Oh, the horror of it. The reputations of their deceased husbands, a banker, a minister, and a respected farmer, will be tarnished forever. Three of the widows could face jail time, and the fourth fears for her life. Whatever will they do with the conniving, blackmailing maid? Don't Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick is a caper story. Elderly ladies with crimes in their youth catch far worse criminals in the present.
If you grew to love the characters in Marie F. Martin’s previous novels Maternal Harbor, Harbored Secrets, and Ratham Creek, you will treasure Roberta and her friends in the mystery Don’t Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick.
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Marie Martin is one of my favorite authors. Zingers. Laughter. Awe. Adventure. Unexpected. Constance See, freelance writer/photographer.
Don't mess with Mrs. Sedgwick is a perfectly paced mystery with a huge amount of heart. Four spunky, senior citizen widows and long-time golfing buddies tackle a small town's corruption with spirit and humor. At the same time, they are forced to deal with dark secrets from their own individual pasts. Fun! Jake How - Editor. Four friends have a simple plan to spend the autumn of their lives having fun and caring for each other. But their carefree life disappears when a blackmailer threatens to reveal each lady's secret past. Drama, humor, intrigue--Marie Martin's newest mystery has it all! Deborah Epperson (Amazon author of Breaking TWIG)

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Don't Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick is a caper story about elderly ladies with crimes in their past catch criminals in the present.The idea for the story niggled into my mind from the simple teasing of mygolfing buddies. Yes, we would someday sell our homes and buy condosside-by-side. We would take care of each other and not be a burden toour offspring. Besides, we wanted to just enjoy the simple pleasure offriendship instead of turning into lonely old widows. As the storydeveloped on paper I could not believe the twists and turns it took. Mybuddies will get a kick out of reading this one.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01LZCD75N
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ 4-D Publishing (October 11, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 11, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4813 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 245 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Marie F Martin

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Marie F Martin, author, storyteller and weaver of suspense, spunk and sass in her Historical Fiction, Thrillers, and Mysteries.

MATERNAL HARBOR has a mother's vow to protect her baby, HARBORED SECRETS has surprising twists of a family’s past, RATHAM CREEK begins with a grizzly attack and ends in a lover’s spat. DON'T MESS WITH MRS. SEDGEWICH has the spunk and sass of four elderly ladies.

Together her thriller, mystery, or suspense novels have over 500,000 Kindle downloads and over 700 five star reviews.

Marie lives in a fertile valley at the base of the Rocky Mountains. She enjoys a quiet life where laughter comes easy, love easier. She invites you to join her on her website and read about her rich, rural memories in a memoir of her early childhood and raising her own family of four children. If you have any questions she will be happy to answer them. Her email address and other social media are listed on her website.

https://www.mariefmartin.com

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430booklover
5.0 out of 5 stars Mystery with comedy and 4 older wealthy widows.
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2022
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Great story with interesting characters who are older wealthy widows. A little comedy while trying to solve a mystery.Mrs. Sedgewick convinces the other 3 to buy adjoining condos with her, and things are going well until she hires a cleaning lady and gets the others to hire her too. The cleaning lady turns out to be a snoop and threatens to air the ladies secrets unless they pay her off. Nice ending.
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Inge H. Borg
4.0 out of 5 stars Yeah, Don’t Mess with us Sprightly Ladies!
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017
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This was not only a fun read, but should convince the “younger folk” not to discount us sprightly, well-mannered ladies they tend to ignore in their youthful self-importance. If hard pressed – as Mrs. Sedgewick was – we old gals can nimbly spring to action to foil evil perpetrators with aplomb.

Written in an easy style, the book provided me with much-needed chuckles and relief from my usual more serious reading fare. I call the book “delightful.” And I am sticking to it despite its “improbability,” as some reviewers contend. Not so fast. There was a time when my apartment was broken into. It took me one year to get the robber behind bars simply through tenacious high-heeled legwork by myself; after which three police departments (Boston, Cambridge and Brookline) offered me a job as a detective.

Henceforth, “Don’t Mess With Mrs. Sedgewick” isn’t that far-fetched – as well as a very enjoyable read.
Inge H. Borg, Author of the Legends of the Winged Scarab
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NancyLynn
3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed review
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2017
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Loved the storyline. Loved the characters, but the writing was more like an outline than smoothly flowing fiction. I hope the author writes more about these wonderful ladies' adventures, but has some editors who can suggest some writing finesse. Still, I enjoyed it!
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A. T. B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Girls just want to have fun...whether they're 17 or 70
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016
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A light-hearted romp about four widows who are becoming their own women after decades of family responsibilities. They golf, go to the casino, and flirt with a handsome fisherman. And they've done enough housework, so they hire the same maid to clean their side-by-side condos.

But...that maid has a larcenous streak. She snoops in each woman's home, digging up long-buried secrets the four friends haven't even confided to each other. The blackmailer demands hush money or she'll reveal their pasts which would destroy their reputations and might lead to criminal prosecution. Just when they think they've solved the blackmail problem, more trouble finds them in the form of gangsters, family feuds, and murder.

Author Martin shows her versatility with this entertaining new book, in contrast to her other works which have more serious tones and themes. One can tell how much fun she had writing it and her merriment is contagious.
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Charles A. Ray
4.0 out of 5 stars Seventy is the new twenty-one
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017
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Roberta Sedgewick is a widow, living with her late husband’s dog in a house that rattles. She decides that she and her three best friends and golfing buddies, also widows, should sell their houses and buy adjoining condos. Then, she talks them all into hiring the same maid—who turns around and blackmails them for their past crimes. In some cases, these crimes aren’t minor. One of them could go to jail. When criminals from the past start showing up, and their real estate agent turns up dead, the heat is on. But, widows they might be, they are not helpless. Roberta still has her husband’s gun collection, and some of her friends are willing to consider using them.
Don’t Mess with Mrs. Sedgewick by Marie F. Martin is a humorous, while at the same time a bit scary, mystery with four septuagenarian characters who you can’t help but love. An entertaining read, totally worth the effort.
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Rochelle
5.0 out of 5 stars Dramatically suspenseful
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016
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I give this book 5 stars because of the storyline and the in depth details.
The suspense keeps the reader's attention.
I would recommend this novel to my friends and family.
The thing I liked most about the book was how the writers imagination took twists and turns that made the book come to life as it was being read. The descriptions of the sceneries made the reader feel as though they were in the story.
Well done.
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Avid Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars I liked this book
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017
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I liked this book. It made me laugh. Although not realistic, I enjoyed it. I cannot imagine women who are 70+ years old doing all the things these women did. They move into condos on a hill and regularly walk up and down the hill. Good exercise if you can do it.
SPOILER ALERT. I cannot fathom how 6 years of government disability checks can make one a multi-millionaire, with an off-shore bank account. I don't think it is numerically possible. I had a real problem with that. The story was a bit confusing. At times, I couldn't tell the good guys from the bad guys. I did enjoy it, though.
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MaryAnnReads
3.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to like this book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2017
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I tried to like this book. I wanted to like it. Alas, I failed. I didn't hate it, mind, but I had to exert the old willpower to finish it. As always with my reviews, I will not discuss plot except in the broadest terms. I don't want to reveal anything about the plot that's worth knowing -- especially when the book in question is a mystery.

First off, I found the characters to be largely unsympathetic and one-dimensional. The characters seem to change their basic natures as the plot dictates.

Secondly, I found the plot itself to be arbitrary. The plot twists seem forced for the writer's purposes rather than growing out of the characters and their motivations and actions.

Finally, the ending was not satisfying. Everything tied up too neatly, too quickly, but without any real consequences to all the various characters who deserved some consequences.
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