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Secret Lives

by Mark De Castrique
Patrick Lawlor
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"At seventy-five-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, although she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action—much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay with her while he attends university. As he watches her photograph the crime scene, conceal evidence, and speed-dial the Secret Service Director, Jesse realizes that there's much more to Ethel than appearances suggest. But when Jesse is assaulted and the gym bag full of cash Ethel had hidden is stolen from the basement, the pair decides it's time to launch their own unofficial investigation. With no one to trust but each other, these double-first-cousins-twice-removed form an unlikely bond and learn that the only thing truly worth risking your life for is family."

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  • Release date

    October 11, 2022

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666616279
      • File size: 232055 KB
      • Duration: 08:03:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 15, 2022
      This light and lively series launch from de Castrique (the Blackman Agency investigations) introduces 75-year-old Ethel Fiona Crestwater, a retired FBI agent who remains a legend among her former colleagues for her “myriad connections in both the Secret Service and the FBI, and a maestro’s skill to play those connections to her advantage.” Her comfortable Arlington, Va., home is affectionately referred to as “Ethel’s dormitory” by the government agents who have rented rooms from her over the years. When one roomer, Secret Service agent Jonathan Finch, is shot in front of her house, the feisty landlady steps into the role of action hero to find Finch’s killer and discover the reasons for his death. She’s assisted by Jesse Cooper, her double first cousin twice removed, who’s also staying with her while attending the American University in Washington, D.C., as well as former boarders Cory Bradshaw, head of the Secret Service, and Arlington police detective Frank Mancini. Petite but plucky Ethel is an elderly Nancy Drew: sure of herself and her convictions, and ready to bend a few rules to achieve her goal of seeing justice done. She’s off to a fine start.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Cryptocurrency and murder come to the fore in this engaging audiobook featuring elderly Ethel Fiona Crestwater as a feisty landlord and supersleuth. At its core, the novel focuses on the murder of a Secret Service agent, who is one of Crestwater's boarders. The story shines because of Crestwater's personality, which Patrick Lawlor brings to life with a superb performance. Crestwater is no passive senior; she is a formidable retired FBI agent who is smarter than her colleagues, many of whom view her with misplaced ridicule. Lawlor's narration is memorable because he gives distinct voices to the many agents and law enforcement personnel who are searching for the killer and the missing crypto key he presumably possesses. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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