When Walter, one of the Happy Trials residents, a healthy eighty-year-old who’d just been given a clean bill of health by his doctor, suddenly dies of a heart attack, Harriet feels like something isn’t quite right about his death. Walter had been quite the ladies man. Could someone have killed him? Or did he just have a heart attack? A week later, another resident dies, and then a few days after that, another dies. What’s going one? Why are healthy people dying at Happy Trials?

The Happy Trials Retirement Village mystery series is Glenn Rogers’ fifth series and has all the earmarks of another successful series. Set in the small West Texas town of Abilene, featuring Harriet Ward, a retired surgical nurse, as the crime solving amateur sleuth, the books are filled with an interesting blend characters, most of whom you will like, as they live with the joys and challenges of their senior years. Like real life, some of what happens is humorous, some is sad. But all of it occurs in the midst of an intriguing mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end.