Is it possible to put aside years of investigative instincts and habits to live quietly in a retirement home? Is it possible to redefine who you are at the age of eighty? These are the questions that Bess seeks to answer in GUMSHOE GRANNY INVESTIGATES. When she arrives at the Honey Hills Retirement Center, Bess Bullock has every intention of occupying her days with simple activities like reading and idle conversation. However, Bess begins to notice that even at a retirement home, her instincts for noticing the "little mysteries in life" won't allow her to live as quietly as her fellow...

Bess Bullock knows about clues. After all, her career as a policewoman has made her more than qualified to help her fellow residents at the Honey Hills Retirement Center solve their various personal mysteries. But when one morning a tray of delicious, buttery croissants heralds the arrival of a fantastic new chef at Honey Hills, Bess is immediately curious as to why such a talented cook would lavish his amazing skills at a senior citizen home rather than a fancy four-star restaurant. She decides to investigate and stumbles upon a decades old mystery of family pride, stolen jewels, and...

You are cordially invited to a wedding. But before retirement home detective Bess Bullock can walk down the aisle, she has a few loose ends to tie up. Like the case of a mysterious bird cage where two birds have died on the same day for two consecutive weeks. Then there's the secret behind a resident's obsession with finding a stuffed fox at the Honey Hills' Community Yard Sale. Even a bus trip to the beautiful Rockwell Gardens leads Bess to a mystery involving an ages old infidelity and the yearly revenge carried out by a bitter widow. With the big day drawing near, Bess finds her wedding...

Everywhere she looks in her retirement home, Bess Bullock finds that winter is a season for secrets. First, there is the secret of The Cross Stitch Six, a group of talented sewers who conspire to keep a secret about one of their deceased members. Then there is Donna Gilmore, who breaks her silence to Bess about a long held belief that she is being stalked by someone in the Honey Hills Retirement Center. Even Bess's friend, Alma Crisp, is not immune from a secret that she harbors. A secret that inadvertently puts Alma's moral reputation at risk. Yet, the most unsettling secret that Bess...

They have met many presidents. They are politically well connected. They were born and raised in the social circles of Washington D.C. So why have Charlotte and Ruth Dupree taken such an interest in the death of a homeless man? Is it because he died at St. John's Episcopal Church, often called "the Presidents Church" since every president since James Madison has worshiped there. Using their observations about the presidents they've met, along with their usual charm, the Dupree Sisters find themselves navigating through a labyrinth of Washington luncheons, social events and gossip to uncover...