Not Over the Hill Just Quite Yet

Maybe it’s to prove a point that I’ve written about women who are not actually considered young any more but who still have the mental acumen and physical abilities to solve mysteries. Believe me, neither Darcy Campbell nor her mother Flora Tucker were over the hill when they tumbled down it. In The Cemetery Club, these two survived the dive over the steepest hill in Ventris County, ran through a tangle of underbrush, climbed a rocky cliff, and descended into the depths of a spooky cavern. And, kept their sense of humor!

When the same courageous women got a letter asking for help in Grave Shift, they took an impromptu trip to Amarillo, Texas, and wound up riding horses across the prairie. Not a thing for the faint of heart.

And Best Left Buried--well, Darcy, through no fault of her own, found herself dangling by her ankles, head-first in a deserted well, but she didn’t have a heart attack. Not even when spider webs clogged her mouth and eyes. No, she came out of that well fighting mad and almost committed assault and battery on the perpetrator of her predicament.

After weathering shocking news in the previous book, BLB, both Darcy and Flora were blind-sided by more shocking revelations about their family in Grave Heritage. They, however, weathered that storm as well as the worst flood Ventris County had ever experienced.

Not to be out-done by Darcy and Flora, Nettie Elizabeth Duncan McNeil, although somewhere between Darcy and Flora in years, was nearly the victim of a crazy person residing in her hometown, in Moonlight Can Be Murder. And, in By the Fright of the Silvery Moon, Ned had to rely on pluck and her ability to talk her way out of a deadly situation in order to avoid becoming a victim of a greedy and slightly mentally-askew person.

Being young at heart and having a healthy curiosity and a sincere desire to see Right triumph over Wrong is a pretty good indicator of not being over the hill. Age is only in the mind.