This could be quite amusing - but you have to be prepared to put the work in to read it. And I found it a hard read.
The concept of having a group of 80 somethings team up with a couple of teenagers (who can do the running around and get jobs in the nursing home as undercover sleuths) is interesting.
The actual crime that they investigate is ok - although the perpetrators are obvious from their first mention.
They all suck as far as tailing someone - they are advised at the end of the book that they need to take a module in how to do it!

I found it overly wordy - chunky and clunky.

I liked the fact that the main characters were all in their 80s - and there were plenty of them.
I'm going to assume that there will be more of the Senior Sleuth Mysteries in the future. Hopefully without having to do lots of introductions they will be easier reading.

*3.5

This book is good enough. The mystery is a little off for my but I appreciate the characters and the queer platonic relationship. Love the reps, really. I love the characters. However the mystery was to easy to solve for my. I found the culprit like in the first 20s pages.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the arc.

Thanks to Bold Strokes Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This light-hearted, cozy mystery set in East Texas centers around three college friends who have recently reconnected as they enter their eighties. Slightly bored and looking for new adventures, they turn to sleuthing. I'm afraid I don't remember enough about Nancy Drew to appreciate the explicitly stated homage, but I liked the relationships, particularly the QPR (queer-platonic relationship) between two of the main characters. I found the opening jarringly abrupt and am somewhat sceptical as to whether well-to-do lawyers actually continue practicing into their eighties, but perhaps my youth is against me there.