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The Nest (Friends With Benefits)
by Hal Glatzer 
Category: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Accidental Detective Mystery, eBook
Praise "I loved every page of The Nest! Herman and Teddie are not your typical amateur sleuths—they’re a charming, sixty-something duo with sharp banter, sizzling chemistry, and a very unconventional secret. When their landlord ends up dead, they tumble headfirst into a mystery full of quirky neighbors, hidden agendas, and corporate intrigue" - Amazon customer, 5 star review |
ABOUT THE BOOK
Herman and Teddie (Theodora) are a playful, affectionate couple in their sixties. One morning, they discover the body of the landlord under their apartment’s balcony. Everyone says it was an accident, but the homicide detective believes it was murder, and starts building a case against Herman and Teddie.
To clear themselves, they set out to discover what really happened. But they are not the typical husband and wife; they have a secret they must conceal and protect: they are married--but not to each other. They are friends with benefits who rent the apartment for their weekly afternooners.
Forced by circumstance to go sleuthing, but never having done it before, they naively follow a trail of criminal mischief in the city. A series of suspicious incidents makes them realize that there are intrigues in the apartment house itself. Neighbors with motives for their landlord’s murder keep piling up.
The deeper they probe, the more they suspect that a limited-liability corporation is behind the murder. But LLCs can legally conceal their members’ and investors’ names. To identify who's responsible they have to skirt the law. Unexpectedly, they discover the truth about an ongoing scandal involving the chief of police. Which makes them realize that revealing too many secrets could backfire—exposing that secret of their own!
Just when they think they’ve got all the answers, they fall into a trap. Though they escape in a wild and risky way, another challenge looms: They still have to convince that skeptical homicide detective that what they’ve learned—whodunit, how, and why—is really the truth.
Herman and Teddie (Theodora) are a playful, affectionate couple in their sixties. One morning, they discover the body of the landlord under their apartment’s balcony. Everyone says it was an accident, but the homicide detective believes it was murder, and starts building a case against Herman and Teddie.
To clear themselves, they set out to discover what really happened. But they are not the typical husband and wife; they have a secret they must conceal and protect: they are married--but not to each other. They are friends with benefits who rent the apartment for their weekly afternooners.
Forced by circumstance to go sleuthing, but never having done it before, they naively follow a trail of criminal mischief in the city. A series of suspicious incidents makes them realize that there are intrigues in the apartment house itself. Neighbors with motives for their landlord’s murder keep piling up.
The deeper they probe, the more they suspect that a limited-liability corporation is behind the murder. But LLCs can legally conceal their members’ and investors’ names. To identify who's responsible they have to skirt the law. Unexpectedly, they discover the truth about an ongoing scandal involving the chief of police. Which makes them realize that revealing too many secrets could backfire—exposing that secret of their own!
Just when they think they’ve got all the answers, they fall into a trap. Though they escape in a wild and risky way, another challenge looms: They still have to convince that skeptical homicide detective that what they’ve learned—whodunit, how, and why—is really the truth.
Hal Glatzer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Although THE NEST is set in recent times, most of Hal Glatzer’s mystery fiction has been set in the past.
Katy Green is a working musician in the years leading up to World War II, whose gigs draw her into danger. In TOO DEAD TO SWING she joins an all-female Swing band on tour, only to discover that someone is killing her bandmates. In A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN, Katy helps a friend in a classical-music conservatory who’s accused of stealing a rare manuscript. And in THE LAST FULL MEASURE, Katy’s in a shipboard dance band, en route to Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. TOO DEAD TO SWING and A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN are also available as audiobooks.
In audio exclusively are VENGEANCE IN VEGAS and A DEAD BODY'S A DEAL-BREAKER, Glatzer’s humorously hardboiled minuscule mysteries: the all-alliterative adventures of the Hollywood hawkshaw Mark Markheim, a shamus with a shingle in Tinseltown.
Glatzer is active in several Sherlock Holmes “scion societies” of enthusiasts. During the pandemic, he wrote five Sherlock Holmes pastiches in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, all of which were published in U.K. anthologies. He subsequently published them together in the anthology, THE SIGN OF FIVE.
Born and raised in Manhattan, Glatzer went to public schools, the Bronx High School of Science, Syracuse University for a BA in English, and the University of Hawaii for an MA in Communication. But his writing career began in daily journalism. As a newspaper and television reporter in the 1970s, he found his ideal beat covering the “silicon revolution,” the rise of communication satellites, small computers and other personal electronic devices. He wrote four nonfiction books on those subjects which were published in the ’80s, and stayed on the high-tech beat until the mid-’90s, when—ironically—the internet killed the market for “computer magazines.” But he got his first mystery novel out of that beat. THE TRAPDOOR, about a hacker who gets in trouble hacking for organized crime, was published in 1986.
He had long wondered why so many cities used to—but no longer—have streetcars. So he spent years doing research, and created an illustrated bildungsroman called DEAD IN HIS TRACKS to answer that question.
When Glatzer is not working as an author, he works as a musician, playing jazz guitar and singing “the Great American Songbook” from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.
Website: https://halglatzer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hal.glatzer
Instagram: @halglatzer_author_
Purchase the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Nest-Hal-Glatzer-ebook/dp/B0CM1723DL
Although THE NEST is set in recent times, most of Hal Glatzer’s mystery fiction has been set in the past.
Katy Green is a working musician in the years leading up to World War II, whose gigs draw her into danger. In TOO DEAD TO SWING she joins an all-female Swing band on tour, only to discover that someone is killing her bandmates. In A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN, Katy helps a friend in a classical-music conservatory who’s accused of stealing a rare manuscript. And in THE LAST FULL MEASURE, Katy’s in a shipboard dance band, en route to Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. TOO DEAD TO SWING and A FUGUE IN HELL'S KITCHEN are also available as audiobooks.
In audio exclusively are VENGEANCE IN VEGAS and A DEAD BODY'S A DEAL-BREAKER, Glatzer’s humorously hardboiled minuscule mysteries: the all-alliterative adventures of the Hollywood hawkshaw Mark Markheim, a shamus with a shingle in Tinseltown.
Glatzer is active in several Sherlock Holmes “scion societies” of enthusiasts. During the pandemic, he wrote five Sherlock Holmes pastiches in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, all of which were published in U.K. anthologies. He subsequently published them together in the anthology, THE SIGN OF FIVE.
Born and raised in Manhattan, Glatzer went to public schools, the Bronx High School of Science, Syracuse University for a BA in English, and the University of Hawaii for an MA in Communication. But his writing career began in daily journalism. As a newspaper and television reporter in the 1970s, he found his ideal beat covering the “silicon revolution,” the rise of communication satellites, small computers and other personal electronic devices. He wrote four nonfiction books on those subjects which were published in the ’80s, and stayed on the high-tech beat until the mid-’90s, when—ironically—the internet killed the market for “computer magazines.” But he got his first mystery novel out of that beat. THE TRAPDOOR, about a hacker who gets in trouble hacking for organized crime, was published in 1986.
He had long wondered why so many cities used to—but no longer—have streetcars. So he spent years doing research, and created an illustrated bildungsroman called DEAD IN HIS TRACKS to answer that question.
When Glatzer is not working as an author, he works as a musician, playing jazz guitar and singing “the Great American Songbook” from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.
Website: https://halglatzer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hal.glatzer
Instagram: @halglatzer_author_
Purchase the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Nest-Hal-Glatzer-ebook/dp/B0CM1723DL