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MEET "GEEZER LIST"  Since America's 78 million baby boomers started turning 60 last year, dozens of novels with graying protagonists and late-life themes have hit the nation's bookstores, adding a few new wrinkles to the face of contemporary fiction and underscoring a sobering fact about readers in America: The most avid book lovers are 50 and older...Click here for lists...

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sERIES by Lead Character:

Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 70-something coroner as the hero in these books by Colin Cotterill.  Dr. Siri is eccentric, a sleuth in every sense of the word. The national coroner of Laos, Dr. Siri often finds himself on "an intimate basis with the dead".  Novels featuring Dr. Siri.

AGATHA RAISIN: a middle-aged, retired public-relations agent who moved from London to the Cotswolds. In the first book, Agatha is 53, but she ages as the series progresses.  The police, and even some of her friends, insist that she solves crimes through accident and luck. Novels featuring Agatha Raisin

BENBOW & WINGATE: Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate are the elderly protagonists in Corinne Holt Sawyer's mystery novels set in a Southern California retirement community. The two elderly women are drawn into investigating criminal wrongdoings in a continuing series that Emily Melton in Booklist dubs "fun, lighthearted, cleverly plotted entertainment." Novels featuring Benbow & Wingate