The Retirement Plan

A Novel

Sue Hincenbergs

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780063398023
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

“The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun." —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night

THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.

Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut suspense novel that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.

After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, in this witty domestic thriller, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.

But when the women discover their husbands have seven-figure life insurance policies, a new dream forms. And this time, they need a hitman.

Meanwhile, their husbands are working on their own secret retirement scheme and when things begin to go sideways, they fear it’s backfired. The husbands scramble to stay alive…but soon realize they may not be quick enough to outmaneuver their wives.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• One: You Don’t Need That
• Two: Marlene Was Right
• Three: Funeral Sandwiches
• Four: No Harm Done
• Five: They All Do
• Six: That’s What Friends Do
• Seven: Whatever Needs Doin’
• Eight: Recommended Viewing
• Nine: Depends on You
• Ten: Don’t Be Afraid
• Eleven: Follow the Rules
• Twelve: It Takes Vision
• Thirteen: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
• Fourteen: I’ll Bring a Salad
• Fifteen: Nice Hat
• Sixteen: A Hard Truth
• Seventeen: Tee Time
• Eighteen: Fri-Yay
• Nineteen: We’ll Be Fine
• Twenty: Bad People
• Twenty-One: Goodbye, Dave
• Twenty-Two: Some Gals Knit
• Twenty-Three: A Deal’s a Deal
• Twenty-Four: Five Sisters
• Twenty-Five: Thorough Investigation
• Twenty-Six: Inertia
• Twenty-Seven: Thick as Thieves
• Twenty-Eight: Ask the Right Way
• Twenty-Nine: Agree to Disagree
• Thirty: A Real Looker
• Thirty-One: This Chick Is Outta Here
• Thirty-Two: You Don’t Say
• Thirty-Three: It’s Always About the Money
• Thirty-Four: It’s Starting to Rain
• Thirty-Five: Two Strikes
• Thirty-Six: The Elephant in the Room
• Thirty-Seven: You What?
• Thirty-Eight: Big Guns
• Thirty-Nine: They’ll Find It
• Forty: No Coincidence
• Forty-One: Every Man for Himself
• Forty-Two: Just a Barber
• Forty-Three: Since You Put It That Way
• Forty-Four: This Is No Dream
• Forty-Five: A Real Dog
• Forty-Six: You Should Stay
• Forty-Seven: Just a Bean Counter
• Forty-Eight: Know Anybody?
• Forty-Nine: Emergency Stash
• Fifty: Something Like That
• Fifty-One: Old Before He’s Forty
• Fifty-Two: Don’t Mean to Be Rude
• Fifty-Three: Everybody Knows
• Fifty-Four: You Couldn’t Have Mentioned It?
• Epilogue
• Post Script
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher