The Retirement Plan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Retirement Plan by Sue Hinchenbergs

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Three middle-aged best friends turn to murder in order to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies…but are unaware that their husbands have a devious plan of their own, in this darkly funny debut.

Three wives wanting a new life, three husbands in their way…

After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong, and their dreams of beachfront condos and a sunny, carefree retirement vanish. The golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.

But when one husband dies in a freak accident, the other three women are shocked to see his widow rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida. In the aftermath, the women discover that their husbands have identical, seven-figure life insurance policies. A new dream forms, and this time, it involves a hitman.

Meanwhile, their husbands have a secret retirement plan of their own. So, when things begin to go awry, they fear their own scheme may have backfired…with deadly consequences. The husbands scramble to stay alive, but they may not be fast enough to outmaneuver their wives.

What follows is a high-stakes tale of cat and mouse, both laugh-out-loud funny and unbearably tense, while ultimately a big-hearted look at marriage, friendship, and middle-age.

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Humor, Crime

Don't let the cover fool you! Speaking of covers, in one of the editions (German), the book is titled Very Bad Widows. The I in widows is a knifɇ! 🗡😱😰😄
Update: I'm not sure why because a knife was not part of the "plan". 

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🎉 Overall Enjoyment? 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

🎣 Did it grab and keep my attention? 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

🗣️Would I recommend it to anyone? Yes ➕ Unless you take things too seriously.

🕮 Would I want a sequel? Yes ➕ about Hector and his wife Brenda! 

📚 Would I want to read more books by this author?  Yes ➕This book was her debut but I'll be on the lookout for her next.

💣💥 📢 Triᵷᵷer Warnings? Dɇath but I don't think it was presented in a horrific way that I would label it as a TW.

🌶 Spice? No

🌪 Plot Twist? Yes

👟 Pace? Good

💻 Tidbits ~ Not to be confused with a financial plan for your golden years! I enjoyed this caper. Four couples are friends. One husband dies, the wife gets the life insurance money that she didn't know existed. Her financial woes are solved and she buys a condo in, you guessed it, Florida. Her friends decide their lives would be better off without their husbands too so they hire a hit man. Unbeknownst to them, the husbands have also hired the same hitman because they are trying to survive a crime syndicate from skimming money from the casino. Like a ton of money! What could possibly go wrong?! 
I could totally relate to Padma with the bowling shoes. Not only have they been worn by strangers but they are flat. Short girl-germ freak problems!  

Justification for hiring a hitman: "Why would she want you dead?" "I ate her Pad Thai". Take note: Don't EVER eat a woman's leftovers! 
Words to live by: “We can't just Lucy and Ethel our way through this. We have to be prepared.”
Favorite character: Hector! Who doesn't want an El Salvadoran Barber to "do what needs doing" on their friend's list? I wouldn't mind a sequel with Hector and his wife Brenda as the MCs! 

🎧Kiiri Sandy and John Pirhalla

🎧11.14hours 🕮 336 pages

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