Rita Lakin



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BIOGRAPHY

Fate took Rita from New York to Los Angeles where she was seduced by palm trees and movie studios. The next twenty years she wrote for television and had every possible job from free-lance writer to story editor to staff then finally producing. She worked on shows such as Dr. Kildare, Peyton Place, Mod Squad & Dynasty. She created her own shows: The Rookies, Flamingo Road and Nightingales. She wrote many MOW’s (Movie's of the Week) and mini-series such as Death takes A Holiday, Women In Chains, Strong Medicine & Voices of the Heart. She has also written two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossinger’s (co-authored) which are still being produced. Her many awards include Writers Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allen Poe and the coveted Avery Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan.
She is now back to her first love, writing novels.

Rita lives in Marin County, California.

BIG NEWS HOT OFF THE PRESS GLADDY GOLD'S NEW BOOK IS FINALLY OUT ON DECEMBER 26 TH..YES THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS. WHILE YOU'RE BACK IN THE STORE RETURNING GIFTS YOU DON'T WANT, GET THE LATEST IN OUR SERIES. AND, THE AUTHOR SAYS MODESTLY, IT'S THE BEST! GETTING OLD IS A DISASTER!

WHAT GOINGS ON. GLADDY AND JACK ARE TALKING WEDDING PLANS, BUT SUDDENLY A HURRICANE HITS FT. LAUDERDALE AND AT THE SAME TIME UNEARTHES A LONG-DEAD BODY UNDER JACK'S BUILDING. GLADDY AND THE GIRLS MUST UNCOVER SOME DEADLY TRUTHS FROM THE PAST IN ORDER TO SAVE THE LIFE OF SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO THEM. AND LATER ON, SAVE
SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES AS WELL. CHILLS AND THRILLS GALORE.


Selected Works

Fiction
Getting Old is To Die For
Gladdy, Jack, and the girls all go to NY
Getting Old is Criminal
Jack goes missing and Gladdy has to deal with her true feelings. Through tears and all Gladdy and her girls go on a brand new adventure, going undercover to find a killer at one of the richest retirement complexes of them all.
Getting Old Is The Best Revenge
The Further Adventures of the Oldest Living Private Eye in Florida, Gladdy Gold, and her Indomitable Girls.
Getting Old Is Murder
Meet Gladdy Gold, Florida’s Oldest Private Eye and her Merry Band of Octogenarians
Short Story collection
The Woman Who Hated The Bronx: a short story in "Bronx Noir"
One of the short stories in this new collection from Akashic Books publishing
THE 5TH IN THE GLADDY GOLD COMEDY MYTERIES
GETTING OLD IS A DISASTER
A hurricane hits Ft. Lauderdale and a dead body shows up from the past