The Last Stop

About the Book

Deborah Farrell, the retired queen of the movies, moved into a new retirement community owned by Sir Basil Rathbourne. She planned to enjoy the “golden years” with the other members of the Greatest Generation. She hoped to escape the notoriety of her trial for the murder of her husband, Mark Chambers, that had been aborted by jury tampering seventeen years erlier.. She wanted to forget the past and join her new friends in bridge tournaments, golf putting contests, and reminisces about family members and old friends. She relished siding with them in their daily attacks on Sir Basil, the food, and the numbers of pills they mutually consumed daily. But the past was not to be ignored and soon it overwhelmed her. Connie Boswell, a fellow resident and author of trashy tell-all books, published “The Goddess” about Farrell and her four husbands who all died unnaturally. Boswell’s husband Arnold Myers was murdered and Farrell was indicted again for the murder of her husband. The District Attorney, Nigel Fairbanks, believed he had a solid case; Farrell owned the murder weapon, her fingerprints ere on it and now with DNA, the alibi she had in the previous trial was denied to her.

About the Author

I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Engineering and served for nearly five years in the U. S. Navy in World War II as a Lieutenant Commander in the Aleutians and the Pacific Theaters. In 1946 I resigned my commission, settled in Southern California, and began my civilian career in the retail business. I developed a twenty- store chain of small department stores and sold it after thirty years and started a real estate/construction company. Retired in 2001 and concentrated on writing. Previously I have published two novels, "To Do and Die" and "Unplayable Lies" and a book of short stories," MacCloud's Secret." In 2004, I moved into a retirement community and wrote a new novel, "The Last Stop" about a retirement community and what eighty-year-old people do in their "golden years". Would you believe revenge, murders, sex, and reliving tender memories?