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Reviewed by Stephen Christopher for Readers' Favorite
Harriet Keaton, a longtime resident of The Indie Retirement Village, is called to her family home in uptown Charlotte in the middle of the night. Her brother, Joey, out on parole after serving almost twenty years for a crime he didn’t commit, is in trouble with the police. There’s a dead body under the house, and it's the person responsible for Joey going to jail. Harriet enlists the help of retired lawyer Craig Travail, a new resident at the Indie Retirement Village and a potential future boyfriend. So begins a rollercoaster ride of twists, turns, family secrets, and hidden killers. Can Craig keep Joey from returning to jail, while summoning up the courage to ask Harriet out for a date? Why has the villainous Standish family appeared at board meetings at the Indie Retirement Village? And how many more people need to die before anyone can figure out what’s really going on? Deadly Gold Rush by Landis Wade answers all these questions and more.
Who knew that people in a retirement village could have so much energy and wits? Deadly Gold Rush caught my attention from the first sentence and kept me transfixed to the very end. On top of the murder, there’s an investment opportunity gone wrong, a shady new development based around the Charlotte gold rush, and a search for missing gold coins. A lot is going on, yet every sub-plot made sense and all culminated together beautifully by the end. Deadly Gold Rush is book two of the series, and I really hope there’s a third and more. I haven’t read the first one, Deadly Declarations (but I will). The good news is you don’t need to read it first, as this book works as a standalone with just enough references to keep you in the loop and not provide too many spoilers. Landis Wade’s Deadly Gold Rush is a captivating thriller from beginning to end, and I couldn’t put it down. I recommend it to thriller readers who love courtroom scenes, gold rush history, and retirement village humor.
