Gosh this was a lot of fun, even as I met hit men and witnessed dodgy deals and murderous plans I enjoyed myself immensely. The Retirement Plan sits as both a LoveReading Star Book and Liz Pick of the Month. Three men who lost their money along with their plans for retirement have a scheme to get it back, in the meantime, their wives decide their only option is to collect their husband’s life insurance. Author Sue Hincenberg has devised a deviously twisted plot and I loved it! The characters are vividly colourful, and form themselves into a number of different strands that bump into each other causing chaos along the way. The humour is smirky and wonderful, at no point does it take itself too seriously, but at the same time I could easily imagine this actually taking place. While the murderous wit is there, so is compassion and friendship and love. The chapters are short and pithy, throwing you one way and then the other, encouraging thoughts to spiral before spinning you onto the next scene. This is so vibrant and dramatic I could easily see it being made into a series. Addictive, amusing, and wonderfully capricious, The Retirement Plan is one heck of an entertaining read. Highly recommended.
Dark humour, dirty deeds, marriages and murder . . . it's the fantastically twisty first novel you won't be able to put down.
Pam and her friends Nancy and Shalisa have had enough. Enough of scraping by and enough of their bothersome husbands. Husbands who lost their life savings to a dodgy investment but also happen to have hefty life insurance policies.
Their new retirement plan? Why murder, of course.
But they don't know that their husbands have a new retirement plan of their own.
And now someone is going to be killed . . . but who?
Three wives wanting a new life, three husbands in their way . . .
Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programmes ranging from sitcoms to lifestyle. She oversaw the content on two national daily shows, including Canada's longest-running morning show before turning her talents to live music specials. The Retirement Plan is her darkly humorous first novel.
Sue lives in Toronto with her (very much alive) husband, her scruffy, middle-aged rescue dog Kramer, and the rooms full of the stuff her three sons left behind when they moved out. The porch light is always on in case one comes by for a visit.
