Review: A good, well-written romp!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
Yes, I'm a card-carrying invisible little old lady! Many of us, I am sure, reach our 60s and rapidly become aware of the salesgirl's eyes glazing over when we approach, men look through us not at us, and the 40-something-year-old girl with the knee-length skirt gets served first at the butcher's shop while we hover by the cash register, money at the ready for 10 minutes...so it is understandable that Jean Henderson, feisty granny from the UK, is dismayed when she encounters the same result from the cops in New York.Jean is in the grocery store when two teenagers rob the place and shoot the clerk dead. Being a responsible woman and believing she actually does have all her marbles, Jean tries to give an eye witness account to the police - even going to the station to do so after being ignored at the scene of the crime - where she has to resort to outlandish tactics to get noticed.The last thing Stanley, retiring NYPD officer, needs is to be drawn into investigating the grocery store robbery on his last day at work - and he certainly doesn't envisage being coerced into Jean's nefarious plans and family problems between leaving the police department and taking up his next job. However, that is what happens in this fast-paced crime story.There are plenty of "laugh-out-loud" moments in the chaotic follow-on to the opening crime and the geriatric revenge is well told - one I suspect most people going downhill from the 60s would like to emulate!Good fun and a fast, well-written read!***