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Books with main characters over the age of "40-ish". The older the better! No vampires, mummies or other supernatural beings!
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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Shardlake says, early in Revelation, that he'd just turned 40 (and discovered his first gray hairs when looking in the mirror) -- so shouldn't Revelation and Heartstone be the only books from that series on this particular list? (Great series though it is!) Particularly not, in any event, Dissolution, which takes place a full 6 years before Revelation ...


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Fiona Hurley The narrator-protagonist of Rebecca is a young woman in her 20s. Her husband is older, but he's not the "main character".


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