Grandpa's New Year's Relocation (The Ninja Grandparent Placement Mysteries) - Softcover

Dilts CO, Catherine; Bass, Merida

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1967578133 ISBN 13: 9781967578139

Publisher: Top Hat Cat Publishing LLC, 2025

Synopsis

A mysterious ninja kidnaps a lonely senior citizen and places him with a family in need of a grandparent.

Barry Strong, a seventy-year-old bodybuilder and widower, isn’t ready for romance. When his New Year’s Eve dance partner leads him away from the party, he attempts to resist her charms. Until a bag drops over his head.

Thorne Bramble, self-proclaimed Best Private Investigator in Colorado Springs, is determined to find his missing friend. After all, Barry owes Thorne a free celery juice. Bodybuilder Barry promised to help Thorne fulfill his resolution to whip his dad bod into shape. Resolution number two is trickier. When Thorne tries to improve his awkward relationship with his adult daughter Brie, he learns being a PI is much easier than being a dad.

True crime podcast fan and gym receptionist Brie Bramble reluctantly joins forces with her bumbling PI father to look for Barry. Twenty-five-year-old Brie steps out of her boring existence to go deep undercover with the help of a senior burlesque dance instructor.

Can the sleuthing father-daughter duo work together to find the missing senior citizen? Or will Barry Strong’s heart be kidnapped by a family in desperate need of a grandparent?

Praise for Grandpa's New Year's Relocation:

Grandpa’s New Year’s Relocation, by mother–daughter duo Catherine Dilts and Merida Bass, is a fast-paced, big-hearted cozy that opens with a seventy-year-old bodybuilder kidnapped by a ninja and only gets funnier from there.
—Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Drowning Game Barbara Nickless

A humorous romp through older age with a cast of quirky characters including a kidnapping ninja, a bumbling private investigator, and a family of bodybuilders who want to adopt a bodybuilding grandpa.
—Mike Befeler, author of the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series, Death of a Scam Artist and Old Detectives Home

About this title

About the Authors

Catherine Dilts is the author of twelve novels. Her short stories appear regularly in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Most of her published works have a cozy mystery flavor. After a career in environmental compliance for a global corporation, Catherine now gets to write fiction full time. Her work experiences inspire her fictional environmental themes.Catherine has completed two marathons and one ultramarathon. She enjoys spending time in the mountains and out in nature. She shares her life with her wonderful husband, two daughters, three granddaughters, three grandcats, and one granddog. You can find Catherine on her website at www.catherinedilts.com, on Facebook @catherinediltsauthor and on Instagram @diltscathy.

Merida Bass taught mathematics at the college level before pursuing her artistic dreams. When she isn't working on the novels she co-authors with her mother, Merida writes and illustrates children's books, and creates massive pencil and ink artwork measured in feet, not inches. Her YouTube channel features videos of her actively drawing, and her blog follows her training for and participation in extreme endurance events.Merida, her husband, and three children, love international travel, camping and hiking through America's National Parks, and dressing in homemade costumes for cosplay at anime and science fiction conventions. Merida can be found at www.merida-creates.com, and on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook with @meridacreates.

Edition details

• Publisher: Top Hat Cat Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1967578133
• ISBN 13: 9781967578139
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Bass Merida
• Number of pages: 237