Mrs. Loretta Plansky is seventy-one, retired, a widow, and a very good tennis player. She’s worth millions— until a telephone scammer cleans out all her accounts and investments. Her first thought is to economize. Her next thought is to go to Romania and get back the money. The FBI thinks the scammers are based in Romania.
Loretta is a heroine par excellence. She makes friends with some of the locals in the remote town of Alba Gemina. She shows a talent for snooping. She gets lucky now and then — and takes astute advantage of it. She knows how to drive a motorcycle — and a good thing too. She’s inventive, courageous— and not above a little fling.
This is a delightful book mainly because of Loretta’s personality — but also rich in fun characters, like Loretta’s feisty ninety-eight -year-old father. The bad guys are deeply bad, except for – you’ll see.
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Fun crime caper starring a senior citizen
Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge is a contemporary cozy suspense novel about a seventy-one year old widow who is robbed of her life’s savings by a group of Romanian cyber criminals.Loretta Plansky is enjoying her retirement in her little condominium in Florida when she receives a call from her grandson asking for bail money. Half asleep and concerned for his safety she immediately sends her bank information but is shocked the next morning when all of her accounts have been cleaned out. When the FBI looks into her case she discovers that she’s the victim of an elaborate “grandparent scheme” originating out of Romania. With not a lot of hope of recovering her funds and only a few leads Mrs. Plansky jumps on a plane to hunt down the missing money. Upon arriving in Romania she meets with the U.S. embassy, a writer covering organized crime and unknowingly checks into the hotel owned by the perpetrator. Mrs. Plansky will use her tenacity, unending optimism and the ability to connect with people to find the criminals and get justice.This was a fun crime caper starring a heroine we don’t get to see very often (a retired senior citizen without a law enforcement background) and we also got the point of view of a young man stuck in a criminal organization with no idea how to get out. I appreciated Mrs. Plansky’s lack of bitterness and cynicism but sometimes her naïveté was frustrating. Even my 80+ year old mother knew how to handle the attempted “grandparent scheme” when they called her. She also was way too generous with her adult children and the pressure of living up to the monetary promises she made was a big motivator for risking her life going after a crime syndicate in another country. But overall I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to more Mrs. Plansky in future books.
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