Brenda is missing. There’s an escaped con on the run and bearing a grudge against Joe. Are the two events linked?
The videos begin to arrive. Brenda is being held captive, Joe and Sheila are at their wits’ end, the police insist it has to be left to them, but the Sanford 3rd Age Clubbers are equally determined to find and rescue their treasured treasurer. Could it be one of the many men and women they’ve helped send to prison in the past? Would the wife of the con who is AWOL know anything? Surely it can’t be a fellow 3rd Age Club member? Is Brenda really sending messages with the rapid blinking of her eyes or is it a sign of her deterioration?
As the days progress, Brenda gets visibly weaker on the videos, and her rescue occupies the thoughts and activities of her two best friends to the exclusion of everything else.
Joe is ordered to deliver he ransom, and as the deadline draws closer, nerves are taut, and all anyone can think about is Brenda who is…
The darker side of David Robinson leaks into the normally light and breezy world of the Sanford 3rd Age Club. No happy holiday nights dancing to Abba at the club disco. The tension and mental torment more often found in the author's Freyer and Drake books bting a little extra to the plot. A five-star read