Deadly Declarations
by Landis Wade
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Pub Date Jan 03 2022 | Archive Date Mar 01 2022
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Description
An unlikely trio of retirees try to solve the 250-year-old mystery of the controversial First American Declaration of Independence, actions which–if successful–will change US history.
That is, if they don’t die trying. It’s modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when an unlikely trio of retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a The Indie, team up to solve two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his $50 million fortune to Sue Ellen Parker, the most despised resident at the Indie? At the urging of Chuck Yeager Alexander, an optimistic soul who loves historical conspiracies, and Harriet Keaton, a former businesswoman with an extreme dislike of Sue Ellen Parker, Craig Travail, a trial lawyer recently ousted from his law firm after 40 years, reluctantly goes to court to challenge the dead man’s will for the granddaughter.
This decision sets in motion a series of dangerous events that could lead the threesome to discover the answer to a colonial mystery that has evaded historians for 250 years.
Advance Praise
"A page-turning tale that takes an unexpected journey through law, history, and retiree living." — Kirkus Reviews
This is a novel rooted in history and mystery and imagination–a crackling good book.
– Frye Gaillard, American historian, and author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s
Deadly Declarations is what you'd get if National Treasure and The Firm had a book baby. Deliciously un-put-downable. Two thumbs up!
–Tracy Clark, multi-nominated Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award finalist and winner of the 2020 Sue Grafton Memorial Award for the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781736305584 |
| PRICE | $1.99 (USD) |
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John H, Reviewer
Deadly Declarations.
Three older gents at a retirement home. A death, a missing book and a mystery going back to the founding of America 250 years ago. A trial to invalidate the will and the search for answers is on.
sue w, Reviewer
Deadly declarations by Landis Wade.
The Indie Retirement Mystery Series Book 1.
It’s modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when three retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a The Indie, team up to solve two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his $50 million fortune to Sue Ellen Parker, the most despised resident at the Indie?
A very good read with good characters. I did enjoy the story. Interesting. 4*.
Wilfrieda S, Reviewer
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade is the first of what I hope is many books in The Indie Retirement Mystery Series.
I really LOVE older main characters in Mysteries, and the author nails that with the setting at Charlotte Retirement Community.
I really enjoyed the history and the discussion around the idea that the Mecklenburg Declaration came before the Declaration of Independence.
There are two murders, a will, mystery and twists and turns I did not see coming. I thoroughly enjoyed the character of Chuck Yeager Alexander, perfectly witty and complex. History, mystery, fiction with some courtroom action thrown in for good measure!
The ending was surely unexpected, and I can't wait to read more books in this wonderful series!
Sandi H, Reviewer
Craig Travail, trial lawyer extraordinaire, finally has had enough. He punches his arrogant boss right in the kisser, and then promptly quits. Or is fired. (Semantics.)
He decides to finally move into the retirement home in which he and his departed wife had planned to live out their golden years. He figures he might as well move in and die. Get it over with.
Before long, a couple of motley misfits rope Craig Travail into contesting a will, a case he has no hope of winning. What in the world is he doing, getting involved in all the hullabaloo goings on? And what is this about TWO Declarations of Independence??
I hope this book is the start of a series. I could really get into it.
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