Friday Memes: Old Detectives Home by Mike Befeler

 Happy Friday!

Book Beginnings is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader. She asks that the first sentence is posted along with the author and title of the book and the reader's initial thoughts on the sentence, the book, or anything else it inspires. 

Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower.org also provides a linky for sharing first lines and connecting with others. This meme asks that the chosen books be PG or marked as Mature if they are not. 

The Friday 56 was hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice. This meme is currently on hiatus but many of us are still including a sentence from page 56 or from 56% of the ebook. Anne @ Head Full of Books is picking up the slack until Freda is ready to return. I think this link will get you to the correct place. 

Beginning:

It was a clear and full-moon night. A breeze blew across the lawn of the Old Detectives Home, a storied community on a bluff overlooking the ocean. 

Friday 56:

Sherlock set his violin and bow upon his bookshelf and followed Art out the door, through the residents' hallway and into the staff managers' corridor. 

This week I'm spotlighting Old Detective Home by Mike Befeler. I got this cozy mystery Apri 23, 2023 when it was on sale. I was intrigued by the concept of a retirement home inhabited by a variety of fictional detectives and staffed by the authors of those same detectives. Here is the description from Amazon:

Imagine a retirement home populated with residents such as an aging Hercule Poirot and a dementia-suffering Sherlock Holmes, and run by staff including Art Doyle, Dash Hammett, and Dot Sayers. In this light-hearted spoof of the mystery genre, every character is either a real person from the mystery writing world or a character from a mystery novel. On anything but a dark and stormy night, a dead body is found. The staff managers find themselves unable to control the unruly old detectives. Mix in clues and red herrings galore, as this colorful cast of suspects investigate each other, and the top detectives of all time unite to solve their most difficult whodunit yet.