Mrs Loretta Plansky is a recent widow, living in Florida, playing tennis at the club, trying to deal with her ninety-eight-year-old father, and contemplating requests for money from her children and grandchildren. One night she’s awoken by a late-night phone call from her grandson. He’s been in an accident in Colorado and needs bail money. And, please don’t tell Mom & Dad! So, of course, Mrs Plansky gives him her bank account number and password. She even tells him he can take a bit more than he requested. But when morning dawns she discovers that not only her bank account, but her investment accounts have been completely drained of all funds. And law enforcement offers little to no hope of recovering her funds. Well, THIS will not do! If the law won’t help, Mrs Plansky will get her money back herself!

This was just delightful. Loretta is resilient, intrepid, tenacious, and so unassuming that no one can possibly consider her a threat. She has no patience for the bureaucrats, police officers, journalists, etc who not only will NOT help her, but look askance at her and dismiss her. This elderly lady is NOT to be messed with! And when push comes to shove, Loretta gives as good as she gets. The final chase scene had my heart in my throat, but she’s got moves I never expected. She may be in her seventies, but Loretta Plansky is one kick-a$$ heroine! Brava!

I still think Quinn’s Chet and Bernie series is superior, but this was really a fun lark of a novel. ( )

Spencer Quinn brings it again! Not your ordinary cozy mystery, Mrs. Plansky's Revenge mines the recent phenomenon of hackers posing as the in-dire-straights grandsons of older Americans in order to drain them of their savings accounts. Mrs. Plansky, who with her recently deceased husband invented the bestselling "toaster knife," is a fun and gutsy amateur detective. Believably vulnerable and equally believably resilient and clever, Mrs. Plansky vows to retrieve her stolen 2 million dollars, tracking her hackers to a town in Romania. There, Mrs Plansky discovers that not all hackers are created equal, especially her hackers, the sweet, desperate Dinu and his brilliant pal Romeo. Quinn does his usual great job of mixing humor with suspense, and pathos with realism. His writing is always top-notch! ( )

Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge dwells on the frightful trickery of senior citizens, especially women. The story disturbs me and I wonder how any individual may be so gullible. But cyber crime explodes in this current world of lonely senior citizens. I find that many of the events in the book do not follow common sense. How a 71-year-old woman handles all she accomplishes remains the bigger mystery of the story. The story ends with Mrs. Plansky as the winner, but surely the government will enter the picture now. The story ends too quickly with no explanation of the consequences. ( )

Great fun for a vacation read. Really captured my attention. Light and funny with a bit of suspense. ( )

Excellent narrator in the audiobook. So fun! Loved it. ( )