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The Retirees

Retirement Has Never Felt so Deadly

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Welcome to the idyllic yet eccentric retirement community of The Ocean’s Edge—where retirement has never felt so deadly.

Disco is dead, there’s a serial killer on the loose, the coffin dodgers are solving cold cases, and only the neighborhood cat knows where all the proverbial bodies are buried.

When sharp-tongued sugar heiress Diana is ousted from the empire she helped build, she retreats to a posh 55+ paradise expecting peace, maybe even a pool boy. Instead, she finds a ragtag group of retirees with a knack for solving cold cases—and a disturbing knack for attracting new ones. She quickly finds herself entangled with this quirky yet capable team of senior sleuths: a psychic, tarot-reading twin duo, a retired detective, a conspiracy-minded tech guru, and a nurse who might just talk to animals.

Among tarot cards, a talking cat, and dark web dives, this misfit crew uncovers more than just bingo night secrets. Because in a place this sunny, the shadows run deep, and someone at The Ocean’s Edge has blood on their hands.

As the group begins investigating cold cases, darker truths emerge, uncovering clues that tie back to mysterious pasts, hidden traumas, and residents with more secrets than memories.

Hilarious, heartwarming, and deliciously twisted, The Retirees is a witty, tightly woven, charming, cozy mystery that reminds us it’s never too late for redemption, reinvention, or revenge—and that sometimes the most unexpected heroes come with walkers, wisdom, and wildly colorful personalities.

©2026 Leah Orr (P)2026 Leah Orr
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I really enjoyed this mystery. The characters were funny and the twist in the mystery was great too . A very easy listen

Fun listen

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Based on the one star review, maybe you have to be of a similar age to the retirees, to enjoy this book. For me, it was a light -hearted, entertaining book, that made me smile. Not every book has to be a Pulitzer prize-winner to be enjoyable. I also thought the narration was good, and well-suited to the book. I will look for more by this author.

Easy Listen

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The narrator sounds oddly smug, with a way of speaking that just gets so irritating over time.

The story was barely passable as mindless mush to have on while doing things around the house, and then the main character started bringing up random fatphobic and ableist commentary in which she brags about how little she eats compared to people with eating disorders that result in larger bodies rather than smaller.

There’s constant pop culture style mentions of things like “love is blind” and “tiktok” that comes off like either someone young who cannot think of anything else to write in those spaces, or someone old who is trying desperately to seem relatable to younger readers.

Add in that earlier in the book the FMC is talking about being on a bull-riding machine, and mere sentences later slips up and calls it a horse-riding machine.

All in all I had to DNF because life is too short for bad writing and books that not only encourage open disdain for larger bodies in order to feel superior, which shows the author has DEEP issues with insecurity in themselves, but that can’t even remember if something is a horse or a bull. Maybe stick to reading books instead of writing. I recommend trying books on eating disorders and self love.

Snoozefest, poor writing, mid performance, body shaming and fatphobia viewed as a positive *barf* DNF

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