East Of Peculiar (Hannah Garvey Mysteries #1)

Tired of Chicago's corporate rat race, Hannah Garvey trades in her high-pressure career to become the resident manager of Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks, where she comes face to face with the center's offbeat residents, a bizarre mystery, and a handsome sheriff. Original. One morning Hannah Garvey woke up and decided she'd had enough: of the fast track, the corporate ladder and chronic love-gone-wrong. So she traded in the rat race of Chicago to become the resident manager for Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement development nestled in the Missouri Ozarks. And she's more than ready to kick back, relax and enjoy the view. But Mondays happen even in Paradise. And in this community of delightful oddballs and endearing buttinskies, Hannah finds more than she bargained for. She certainly didn't expect murder ... or a sexy lawman seven years her junior ... or a mystery that puts her wits and wiles, not to mention her patience, to the test. Between the wanna-be Miss Marples, headstrong Sheriff David Hendrickson and a killer on the loose, Hannah is learning to expect the unexpected Hannah Garvey is a burned-out ad executive who chucks her career to become the resident manager of Valhalla Springs, a planned community for healthy, wealthy seniors. But when one of the members is murdered she soon discovers she's taken on far more than she bargained for -- including widower Delbert Bisbee, and IdaClare Clancy, the developer's mother. And then there is Sheriff David Hendrickson. Their relationship starts when he gives her a speeding ticket, and although he is very attracted to Hannah, he would like her to stay out of police business.