The Retirement PlanDark humour, dirty deeds, marriages and murder . . . The most entertaining and deliciously dark crime debut of 2025! Their husbands are driving them mad, and murder is on their minds . . . but the men have a plan of their own. Pam, Nancy and Shalisa once imagined retirement would mean setting aside their worries, picking up their margaritas, and lying back in a hot tub. Right up until their husbands lost their life savings in a reckless investment.

Jean Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago

Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control

John Carey describes it as a comic scherzo dealing with the conflict between science and religion

Longlisted for the Guardian's 'Not The Booker' prize

Bennett and Richard Coles

it looks to be an important expose for Millennium

Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood

and she must decide just how much she is willing to pay and how far she is willing to go to find it

But it's never the whole story

Helen is determined to discover his story

FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming

she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting