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An early member of the Baby Boomer generation, Susan Santangelo has been a feature writer, drama critic and editor for daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in the New York metropolitan area, including a stint at Cosmopolitan. A seasoned public relations and marketing professional, she produced special events for Carnegie Hall's centennial. Susan is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Cape Cod Writers Center, and also reviews mysteries for Suspense Magazine. She divides her time between Cape Cod, MA and the Connecticut shoreline, and shares her life with her husband, Joe and three English cocker spaniels: Tucker,Lucy and Boomer. A portion of the sales from the Baby Boomer mysteries is donated to the Breast Cancer Survival Center, a non-profit organization based in Connecticut which Susan founded after being diagnosed with cancer herself. Moving Can Be Murder is the second in the humorous Baby Boomer mysteries, following the publication of Book 1 in the series, Retirement Can Be Murder. Susan is currently at work on her third book, Marriage Can Be Murder. You can find Susan on Facebook, and also blogging the first and third Sundays of the month at http://www.murderousmusings.blogspot.com.
Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Moving can be Murder is a well-written mystery with totally believable characters that anyone of any age, not just those facing retirement, will enjoy.
Carol and Jim Andrews love their aging Victorian home in suburban Connecticut, but they understand, reluctantly, that it is time to move to an "Active Adult" community where climbing stairs and shoveling snow are activities of the past. They sell their beloved home immediately and make a down payment on a retirement home; then Carol finds the dead body of the buyer of their home. The community where they were to move no longer wants them, their temporary apartment home is too small, and Carol, Jim and their English Cocker Spaniels, Lucy and Ethel, are forced to think about what they must do next. Carol, never one to sit quietly by, wants to know who murdered their buyer, or was he really murdered?
This second book in the always amusing Carol and Jim Andrews Baby Boomer Mystery is a delight to read. Mystery fans and readers, in general, will enjoy every word. Major and minor characters are well-delineated, the plot moves smoothly to its surprising conclusion, and Carol's quotes at the beginning of each chapter are fun to read.
Susan Santangelo is a first-rate writer and her Moving Quiz and Readers' Recipes at the book's conclusion have a special appeal of their own. Moving can be Murder belongs on all public library shelves as Carol and Jim Andrews are perfect foils for each other and the other characters in the book. Fun!
