Monday, August 4, 2008

The Case of the Bouncing Grandma

What would it be like to be a fifty-something grandmother stuck in a wheelchair, recovering from a broken leg, while new neighbors moved in next door? For Glory Harper, it’s boring until she spies a foot dangling from the end of a carpet the movers are unloading from the moving van.

The sight shocks Glory. Her daughter, Andi, fails to believe Glory causing Glory to question her own sanity—until the movers walk past again and grandma Glory gets a second look. Convinced of what she has seen, Glory tries to get sister Jane to believe her.

Jane’s reaction only spurs Glory to try to prove to everyone she is correct and at least one of the members of the new family next door is a murderer. Her task proves tougher than she had ever imagined. Even the police think the over-active grandmother has banged her head one too many times.

Has there been a murder? Can Glory manage to make Detective Blue Eyes understand that she isn’t seeing things before she runs him off? Only by reading A. K. Arenz’s The Case of the Bouncing Grandma will you learn the outcome.

Ms. Arenz has written a poignant story of a widow learning to allow her heart to flower again while in the midst of solving a mystery. The relationships between Glory, her daughter Andi, her grandson Seth, and her sister Jane are handled successfully, drawing the reader deeper into the story with each turn of a page of this easy-to-read flowing style of writing.

Oh, and how did Glory Harper come to be called “Bouncing Grandma”—you’ll have to read The Case of the Bouncing Grandma for yourself to find out. I can’t wait for book two to come out.

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