Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody

Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she's already traveled and planted a garden. She's organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do . . .JANE DARROWFIELD, PROFESSIONAL BUSYBODYAfter Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge cluband then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusettsthat she's the go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing. Soon she has her first paid assignmentthe director of a 55-and-over condo community needs her to de-escalate hostilities among the residents. As Jane discovers after moving in for her undercover assignment, the mature set can be as immature as any high schoolers, and war is breaking out between cliques.It seems she might make some progressuntil one of the aging ';popular kids' is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. And though the automatic sprinklers have washed away much of the evidence, Jane's on course to find out whodunit . . .