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Mike Befeler
Full Series List in Order
A Mark Yeager Sports Mystery
1 - Court Trouble (Jul-2016)2 - Paradise Court (Apr-2019)
An Omnipodge Mystery
1 - Old Detectives Home (May-2022)2 - Last Gasp Motel (Jul-2023)
A Paul Jacobson Mystery
1 - Retirement Homes Are Murder (Jan-2007)2 - Living With Your Kids Is Murder (Apr-2009)
3 - Senior Moments Are Murder (Sep-2011)
4 - Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder (Jan-2013)
5 - Care Homes Are Murder (Jul-2013)
6 - Nursing Homes Are Murder (May-2014)
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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Retirement Homes Are Murder
- Jan-2007
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OLD ENOUGH TO DIE Newly settled in at the Kina Nani Retirement Home in Hawaii, octogenarian Paul Jacobson discovers he has two major problems--his short-term memory... and a murder. He can't remember much from day to day, which makes it tough when h...
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Living With Your Kids Is Murder
- Apr-2009
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Home In Time For HOMICIDE Octogenarian Paul Jacobson trades his retirement community for a new life in Denver, Colorado, with his son, Denny. Still cantankerous, trouble-prone and short-term-memory challenged, Paul is now a "person of interest" in t...
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Senior Moments Are Murder
- Sep-2011
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After waking up in bed with a younger woman, octogenarian Paul Jacobson can't recall how he got there -- or who the woman is. So he grabs the nearest pair of pants and skedaddles. Outside, he discovers the canals of Venice Beach, California…and a d...
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Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder
- Jan-2013
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Sink, Swim or Die Paul Jacobsen may be old, ornery and forgetful, but right now he feels like the luckiest guy on the planet. With a hot seventy-something bride, Marion, by his side on a honeymoon cruise through Alaska, what's to complain about be...
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The V V Agency
- May-2013
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Imagine a dash of Philip Marlowe wrapped in an urban fantasy. The V V Agency is a paranormal mystery that spoofs the PI subgenre and introduces the transvictus-a unique shape shifter. Van and Vanna run a detective agency, but clients never see them t...
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Care Homes Are Murder
- Jul-2013
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DANGER IN PARADISE Despite a run-in with the island's meanest drug lord, cranky octogenarian Paul Jacobson can't help but have fun on a family Christmas vacation in Hawaii. His smokin' seventy-something bride, Marion, is making up for his nonexist...
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The Back Wing
- Aug-2013
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Grieving widower Harold McCaffrey moves into the Mountain Splendor Retirement Home and finds himself living in the Back Wing with a group of strange residents -- aging witches, vampires, werewolves and shape-shifters. He bonds with his fellow denizen...
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Nursing Homes Are Murder
- May-2014
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Killer Retirement He's one cranky octogenarian, but Paul Jacobson is all about living for today. Between his hot seventysomething bride, Marion, and a family Christmas vacation in Hawaii, he's never felt better -- in spite of his nonexistent shor...
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Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse
- Feb-2015
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When a staged murder at a mystery dinner playhouse turns into a real poisoning death‚ recently retired detective Gabe Tremont is called back to solve the crime and discovers the playhouse director‚ the cast and a spy from a competing theater all ...
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Murder on the Switzerland Trail
- Oct-2015
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On Sunday morning, June 29, 1919, a group of people assemble at the Boulder depot for a trip into the mountains on the Switzerland Trail of America railroad, unsuspecting what lies in store for them. During the journey into the mountains, past relati...
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Court Trouble
- Jul-2016
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When Mark Yeager’s friend is bludgeoned to death in the dark on a platform tennis court, Mark becomes an amateur sleuth to find which of the four suspects is the murderer. Avoiding attempts on his life, he must crack the case and figure out how...
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The Tesla Legacy
- Feb-2017
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Picture a retired mathematics professor and conspiracy nut with a butt-kicking, surrogate-daughter sidekick. Elmore Kranz bombards the police with his predictions of disaster until one of them actually happens to the point that he’s implicated in t...
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Death of a Scam Artist
- Aug-2017
- / Amateur Sleuth
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In Death of a Scam Artist, a financial hatchet man who dislikes old people, accepts the job of turning around a failing retirement home and undergoes a life-transforming experience in the world of geezers and geezerettes. He must deal with a suspicio...
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Unstuff Your Stuff
- Apr-2018
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68-year-old Millicent Hargrove returns from her Tuesday night bridge game to her house in Boulder, Colorado, to find her husband, George, dead on the floor with a knife in his chest. At the funeral a man she doesn't know comes up and hands her an env...
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Paradise Court
- Apr-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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On a Maui vacation with his beautiful wife Sophie, retired entrepreneur Mark Yeager makes a gruesome and unwanted discovery. While eyeing the lush landscape of a dream property, he spots a dead body nestled between a dirt mound and the wall of a p...
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The Front Wing
- Nov-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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In this sequel to The Back Wing, Harold McCaffrey realizes that it is his three month anniversary at Mountain Splendor Retirement Home. Harold helps at an open house by taking names for a waiting list of people wanting to move into the Front Wing of ...
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Old Detectives Home
- May-2022
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Mike Befeler has done it again. Fans of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie, and more, hold on to your rockers! At the Old Detectives Home, the top detectives of all time must unite to solve their most difficult whodunit yet-without kill...
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Last Gasp Motel
- Jul-2023
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When retired maintenance man Frank Sinatra finds Darell Willows's body in the swimming pool of the Last Gasp Motel in Omnipodge, California, Frank must deal with the responding police officer making wisecracks about his name while trying to figure ou...
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A Mystery Yarn
- Apr-2024
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While making the rounds to visit her fellow shopkeepers in Ominpodge Village Center, Pru Pendergast overhears an argument between her obnoxious landlord, Bart Cunard, and Sally Midge Cunard, Bart's ex-wife, during which Sally Midge accuses Bart of be...
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