Murder Under the Palms

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Summary: Our intrepid senior sleuth is at it again
Review: Seventy plus years old stage and screen superstar Charlotte Graham travels to Palm Beach to vacation with some old friends. Charlotte joins the local social scene where she meets pianist Eddie Norwood, a man she had a fling with over five decades ago. However, the gala party abruptly ends in tragedy when jewelry designer Paul Feder is found murdered on the beach. His daughter Marianne is the primary suspect since she had the means and the motive. When a close friend asks Charlotte to investigate in order to prove Marianne's innocence, the senior citizen readily agrees. Soon s he finds a link between Paul's death and a ship's bombing in 1942. However, to prove that Marianne did not do the crime seems a bit out of reach for our intrepid amateur sleuth. The eighth novel in the Charlotte Graham series is as good as all its predecessors due to the excellent characters, especially Charlotte. Stefanie Matteson's detective is one of the best protagonists in the sub-sub-ge nre of senior citizen amateur sleuthing. This is one series in which all the books are worth reading. Harriet Klausner