Rules for Aging and Larceny

A combination of nostalgia, free time, and the same girl-power attitude that saw them the target of an FBI investigation 50 years ago just might bring down a group of 70-somethings who regroup for one last heist. It all fell apart so badly years ago that they haven’t spoken since, but when Frances Deluca learns that she hasn’t got long left, she finagles her old friends, and one friend’s granddaughter, into taking revenge on someone who’s swindled one of the group. This girl gang is of the Robin Hood type and readers will relish both the emotion-filled caper and the ramping up of the bad guy’s comeuppance, which culminate in a high-stakes Ocean’s 11 (if the movie stars wore comfortable shoes and shirts with kittens on the collar). Books starring elderly characters are having a moment, as chronicled in our recent article Senior Slayers and Sleuths, and fans of those titles are the audience for this fun and sharp-witted tale of women who don’t let age stop them.—Henrietta Thornton