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Grandma's Valentine Abduction

by Catherine Dilts

A Valentine mystery with senior-center comedy

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A Valentine mystery with senior-center comedy

Lovey Dearheart—a 69-year-old dance instructor and retired Las Vegas showgirl—disappears under suspicious circumstances, setting off a search that spans a senior community, a private-investigator father and daughter, and a ninja. Brie Bramble, a young gym receptionist, takes over Lovey’s dance class with comic misfires while also encountering the elusive figure. The case’s deliberately outlandish ingredients include peanut-brittle payments and a donut-loving mastermind who advises incels on seduction. The mystery ties its comic caper to loneliness, aging, family connection, and the need for a grandparent, with a Valentine-themed question hanging over Lovey’s fate.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in comic mysteries with eccentric, high-concept premises.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving seniors, family connections, and community settings.
  • Fans of humorous private-investigator plots and quirky supporting characters.

Themes

Aging and lonelinessFamily and intergenerational connectionRomance and unwanted attentionCommunity and belonging

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Book overview

A mysterious ninja kidnaps another lonely senior citizen and places her with a family in need of a grandparent.

 

Lovey Dearheart, a sixty-nine-year-old dance instructor and retired Las Vegas showgirl, has never been lucky in love. Has she escaped the unwanted attention of an obsessive fan only to be whisked away by a ninja?

 

When Lovey goes missing, her sultry dance class for senior citizens at the Happy Marmot Community Center becomes gym receptionist Brie Bramble's responsibility. Twenty-five-year-old Brie tries to twerk her way into the role of the missing elderly woman, with disastrous results. To make matters more complicated, Brie has close encounters with a ninja her PI father never seems to see.

 

The seniors pay Thorne Bramble peanut brittle to find Lovey. His investigation takes him into the lair of a donut-loving mastermind who counsels incels in the art of seduction. Colorado Springs's finest PI teams up with his daughter to crack the case.

 

Can Brie and Thorne locate Lovey Dearheart before she becomes the permanent Valentine for a family of musical theater fanatics?

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