For a couple of years now, I've admired author Neil's believable if wacky characters, always interrupted by extraordinary circumstances (her first novel dealt with the Sasquatch) that keep us readers laughing from start to finish. Now comes her best novel yet, "The Blingsters," still preposterously hilarious but filled with touches of sorrow and loss and troubles, characters not just believable but fully human.

We first meet young Griffen Beckett, recently fired from her job as a financial analyst for the FBI. Since she's out of work, her parents send her off to drag her grandmother, whom she calls G-ma (real name Marge Flanders), back home to Oklahoma immediately. Apparently Grandma Flanders stepped off a cruise ship in the Florida Keys to start a new life. Not only is she having too much fun (in her offsprings opinion), she's also spending too much of her own money. This will never do.

While trying to coax G-ma home, Griffen loses what little money she personally is carrying, unable to nudge G-ma away from her friends. This group in the seventies call themselves the Blingsters, and Marge loves everything about them except the mess they leave all over the house they share.

In desperation, Griffen calls for help from her other grandma, Delphine. Grandma Delphine is no stranger to the FBI, although her own agency is far more secretive, and Delphine, also in her seventies, can stare down just about anybody—even the local cop, Roland Magnusson, who closes in on the Blingsters.

Reader, you won't want to miss a page to learn what happens next, right to the very last sentence. Go for it as soon as you can.
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Introducing Griffin Beckett of Fort Worth, Texas dispatched by her parents to fetch her grandmother, Marge (aka G-Ma) and return her to her home in Enid, Oklahoma. You see G-Ma went on a cruise and never came back. She started hanging with a group of ladies who call themselves the Blingsters.
So Griffin flies to Florida and drives to Key West to take charge of her grandmother. She finds out that G-ma is living with the Blingsters in a nice but messy house and that grandmother s her new life, and her new clothes, and jewelry and has no desire to head back to Oklahoma.
So from there, it gets kind of crazy. Griffin although married (is she really though?) finds herself attracted to a police detective who is investigating the Blingsters (he doesn't know what they are doing but suspects they are up to no good, why else would a bunch of elderly women be so happy?)
Griffin ends up having to recruit her other grandmother, Delphine to help her out. Turns out that Delphine is kind of a pill also with her own agenda.
So Griffin's buttoned down world begins to unbutton. Her huge purse with multiple inside and pockets, some zippered for security, the cargo shorts with enormous pockets (I added this detail, don't blame the author.) does her no good as the hot detective gets a scent of what is going on.
Meantime Griffin has her own criminal secret.
The book is fun, moves along at a good pace and is totally satisfying. Give it a read.ebook Quinn Fforde2,720 13

Old school cozy mystery is a good label for this story. Griffin has been sent by her family to bring her grandmother home from Florida. No big deal, right? That would be the case if her grandmother, Marge, hadn't gotten involved with some sketchy friends. Nothing goes at all the way Griffin expects, and she finds herself in over her head. She calls in her other grandmother, Delphine, who has a special set of skills. Then things begin to go even less as expected. Fortunately for us, it is all very funny in a very dry sort of way. I'm looking forward to more stories in this world. Imogen114 1 follower

This book was okay.
I didn’t really find myself getting immersed into it I do with other books and I didn’t feel the characters were that well characterised, so the reader didn’t feel a connection towards them.

The whole story also seemed a little slow, you were constantly waiting for it to happen, then once it did it felt quite anticlimactic.

It was a nice and fun story, I’m just not too sure that it was for me! JonCPup18

I picked this book up as a change from the usual fantasy sagas I read and it was exactly what it claims: a cozy mystery… and I loved it! The journey of Griffin and her grandmas was a delight to read from her highs to her lows and all of the frustrations and laughs along the way. I’m putting the next book on my reading list to see what happens next. Karen36

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