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Fatal Equity
A cry for help from an old friend starts Paula, Eleanor, Jean, and Alice – the Garden Club Gang – investigating Senior Equity Lending Solutions, a company specializing in reverse mortgages for the elderly. Aiding them once again is insurance investigator Samantha Ayers. To get close to Senior Equity, the Gang needs a a showroom for a fictitious company selling fancy French linens on the internet. Even as the Gang begins to document the scam at the center of Senior Equity - that the firm is deliberately pushing its customers into foreclosure - there's a their website is drawing a flood of business. Ignoring the orders could tip Senior Equity to the Gang’s true purpose, so they have a crash course in importing Provençal fabrics. But one person inside Senior Equity begins to suspect that the ‘little old ladies’ are more than they appear. Fatal Equity is a fun, fast-paced mystery with an appealing cast of characters. It’s also an immersion into the world of reverse mortgages… and fine French placemats.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2018
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About the author
Neal Sanders
22 books26 followersBack in 2005, I helped sell the company that had been my long-time employer. When the sale was done, I had two ‘sensible’ offers that would have kept me in the corporate world. To make a long story short, neither option appealed.
There was something else I wanted to do, something that had been on my mind for a couple of decades: I wanted to see if I could write fiction.
Not the Great American Novel. Not poetry. Not some thinly disguised autobiographical cathartic work. I wanted to see if I could tell a rousing good story using believable characters people would root for. I wanted to write stories with satisfying conclusions that sprinkled enough clues about the outcome throughout the story to make a reader say, ‘why didn’t I see that coming?’ Oh, and I wanted to write stuff that people would actually go out and buy. In short, I wanted to write mysteries, suspense, and thrillers.
Since then, I’ve published 15 books. Apart from being mysteries, what they all have in common is that their central characters are strong, independent women. Some of these women solve crimes. Some commit them. But they're all memorable.
Five of my books are stand-alone titles. The others are part of two series featuring recurring characters. But if your next question is 'where do I start?', the answer is, 'anywhere'. My pet peeve about most authors is their lack of charity toward new readers; unless you've read everything else in the series, you're at sea three pages into the book. My stories are deliberately designed to stand on their own.
My books are also, well, humorous. For example, if four 'women of a certain age' are going to take a giant step outside of their comfort zone and rob the daily gate of a large New England fair (as happens in 'The Garden Club Gang'), you can count on a rash of unexpected complications.
I invite you to hop over to my website and sample the wares. You'll find the first few thousand words of each book and a handy guide to which books belong to which series.
There was something else I wanted to do, something that had been on my mind for a couple of decades: I wanted to see if I could write fiction.
Not the Great American Novel. Not poetry. Not some thinly disguised autobiographical cathartic work. I wanted to see if I could tell a rousing good story using believable characters people would root for. I wanted to write stories with satisfying conclusions that sprinkled enough clues about the outcome throughout the story to make a reader say, ‘why didn’t I see that coming?’ Oh, and I wanted to write stuff that people would actually go out and buy. In short, I wanted to write mysteries, suspense, and thrillers.
Since then, I’ve published 15 books. Apart from being mysteries, what they all have in common is that their central characters are strong, independent women. Some of these women solve crimes. Some commit them. But they're all memorable.
Five of my books are stand-alone titles. The others are part of two series featuring recurring characters. But if your next question is 'where do I start?', the answer is, 'anywhere'. My pet peeve about most authors is their lack of charity toward new readers; unless you've read everything else in the series, you're at sea three pages into the book. My stories are deliberately designed to stand on their own.
My books are also, well, humorous. For example, if four 'women of a certain age' are going to take a giant step outside of their comfort zone and rob the daily gate of a large New England fair (as happens in 'The Garden Club Gang'), you can count on a rash of unexpected complications.
I invite you to hop over to my website and sample the wares. You'll find the first few thousand words of each book and a handy guide to which books belong to which series.
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November 12, 2025
This is the 3rd in the four book series of the Garden Club Gang . Although these books are not new, I recently became aware of them. I have enjoyed the three that I have read, but Fatal Equity is excellent.
It follows the gang trying to help an elderly woman who was taken in by a reverse mortgage company.
The description of each character is perfect, as I could picture them and the process of helping her is terrific. I will not spoil it for anyone who has recently discover Neal Sanders as I have. I highly recommend it..
It follows the gang trying to help an elderly woman who was taken in by a reverse mortgage company.
The description of each character is perfect, as I could picture them and the process of helping her is terrific. I will not spoil it for anyone who has recently discover Neal Sanders as I have. I highly recommend it..
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