Unapologetically Sassy Books for Fans of The Golden Girls

After her only child moves away, divorced Debbie has nothing keeping her in New England. She wants to head to Florida, but her daughter has other plans. 

Namely, having Debbie move into her Delaware home to “help” with the kids. Good thing Debbie already has six months on her lease. But life in Florida is far different than the Golden Girls lifestyle she envisioned. 

Until she meets Maria and Fran. Finally surrounded by like-minded women, Debbie sets out to live the life she has always dreamed of. The only question is, will she stand in her own way?

Just because Constance Fitzgerald is almost seventy years old doesn’t mean she needs to slow down. If anything, she’s just getting started. 

The last thing she expects is to find herself engaged. And with a grandbaby on the way, she has to admit that, perhaps, adventure is a little bit different as she gets older. 

But when life throws her the opportunity for one last road trip, Constance packs up to revisit her past and find an old friend along the way.

No one can do cozy mysteries better than the Golden Girls themselves. When Rose’s cousin heads to Miami to elope, Rose offers to play host. 

The only problem is the groom’s family isn’t exactly embracing the wedding week traditions of St. Olaf. And if they don’t abide my them, their hometown might shun the cousin. 

The Girls manage to keep the festivities on track until Dorothy’s date is found dead at the kick-off event. With a wedding on the line, the four friends have to work together to find a killer. All while keeping the ceremony on track. 

Meddelin Chan is not a murderer. Killing her date was an accident. And now there’s the question of a body.  Good thing her meddling mother has even more meddlesome aunties, all more than willing to help. 

But when the body accidentally gets shipped in a cake cooler to an over-the-top wedding on an island resort, things get a bit complicated. And when Meddy’s college love shows up? 

Things really start to heat up. Can the aunties get rid of a body, pull off the wedding, and maybe help Meddy win back her ex's heart? It’s going to be one hell of a weekend.

After her father’s death, Nikki takes a “creative writing” teaching job to help her family get out of crippling debt. But when the women arrive, they come expecting a basic English class, not to learn how to write. 

Until one of them finds a book of sexy stories. Nikki realizes these women have lifetimes of dreams and memories, and she becomes determined to help unleash them. As the women thrive, gossip about a young wife’s death infiltrates the class.

Between that and their own erotica getting shared, a scandal threatens to strike within their community, which threatens to destroy everything.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron would likely never have become friends if not for their shared interest in true crime. Every week, the four meet in their peaceful retirement village to investigate unsolved murders. 

They never imagined one of those murders would be right on their doorstep. And now that it has, they aren’t going to let a little thing like age slow them down. Their methods may be unorthodox and even a little unwelcome. 

But with experience on their side, these friends might have more than a few tricks up their sleeves. Hopefully, enough to unmask a killer.

The Museum is an elite network of assassins. For forty years, Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked as one of them. 

But forty years is a long time, and many at The Museum see their methods as outdated. When the four are sent on an all-expenses-paid vacation to kick off their retirement, the women realize that this is one vacation they’re not meant to come back from. 

Determined to survive, the women set out to teach the organization that they worked for all these years exactly why experience, expertise, and being a certain age make them formidable.

What does it take for a group of four unlikely women to bond? Being unsatisfied with their lives. Each of them came to the castle for a pleasant holiday. 

They never dreamed a month spent in solitude would reawaken parts of themselves they forgot existed. 

Was it a fluke? Or can they recreate that same magic in their husbands and lovers?

Susan and Julie are lifelong friends who live different lives. Susan’s is picture-perfect, with a house and a husband, unlike Julie’s string of failed businesses and bad relationships. 

But when Susan’s husband is found dead in his secret apartment, her life is turned upside down. Barry was a swinger and is in so much debt that the bank is threatening to take her home. 

Until an octogenarian gangster offers a suggestion: take everything the bank has first. With his help, along with wheelchair-bound Ethel, they pull off the crime of their lives. 

Now, they just have to get away with it.