Reva Spiro Luxenberg: 14 books

After Reva Spiro Luxenberg retired as a psychiatric social worker she began a second career as a writer with three cozy mysteries starring her favorite protagonist, Sadie Weinstein. Shes written a childrens book that she illustrated, an anthology of short stories, two dramas, a non-fiction book, and seven screenplays. Playing Scrabble helps her relax as does her class in ceramics.

GRAND ARMY PLAZA By Reva Spiro Luxenberg Jamal Holden, an eleven year-old black boy, tries to cope with the death of his mother as he resumes his life in the home of a compassionate Jewish widow. Jamal Holden, an outstanding present day childrens writer, is squeamish about his past. But when Mamie...

The author is a senior citizen who has the desire to share some of her experiences and practical, down-to-earth learning with other mature women. The book covers relationships with children and husbands and advice about mind and body that includes senior moments, food, clothes, skin, and care of nails...

Sadie Weinstein, wife and joint owner with her husband, Nathan, of Weinsteins Grocery, is a wacky amateur defective detective modeling herself after Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She enlists the help of the Cereal Killer Squad in her quest to aid the police capture the infamous...

There are four suspects in the beauty school murder in Florida. Sadie Weinstein, the quirky amateur sleuth who owns a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn with her husband, Nathan, is the primary suspect. Sadie prevails upon her reluctant spouse to help her entrap the murderer while they are on a much-needed...

Reflections and Recollections is a delightful collection of imaginative stories. It contains memoirs and poemssome of which are hilarious. Once you start reading the book, you wont want to put it down. The section on memoirs is unusual, to say the least, as the author relates her brief relationship...

This octogenarian author has followed up her last book, An Old Ladys Confessions, with an old lady sequel in which she shares her writing experience with aspiring writers. The book covers tools, space, health, planning, working habits, and writing tips. She gives advice on writing novels, mysteries,...

A FLICKERING FLAME is a compelling tale about Jeffrey Shulman, a brilliant pathological liar, an emotionally scarred man with a rare condition named by psychiatrists as Pseudologia fantastica. It is an engrossing chronicle of his life, from his infancy when he was abused, to when he becomes a convincing...

The Cruise Ship Murders A series of murders besets the four thousand passengers on a luxury cruise ship headed to Honduras, Belize, and Mexico. Sadie and Nathan Weinstein have sold their Brooklyn grocery and relocated to a senior community in Florida. Sadie, a zany amateur sleuth in the past begins...

Methuselah, the oldest person who has ever lived, goes on a quest for truth, expanding the Bible with humor. He writes, My best marriage was to Sheilabenautumn, a living doll. I called her She. She called me Meth Honey. But I suffered from the neighbors evil gossip. I was 603, and She was a mere 133....

Sadie Weinstein runs a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn in 1969 with her husband, Nathan. A quirky amateur detective, she persists in solving a murder that takes place when she is present at a home in Staten Island. The murdered victim is a bigamist who had two wives, and possibly more, in different...

Murder at the Second Lily Pond is an entertaining read on a coast-to-coast flight. Sadie Weinstein, cute, zany, and the most unlikely sleuth imaginable gets a call in her grocery in Brooklyn from her son, Jeffrey, a student at Oxford, that he has been arrested for the murder of his archaeology...

Methuselah, the recording angel of history, is correcting the mistakes in Exodus that the dyslexic and nearsighted scribe who copied the Bible first made. For instance, Moses’s mother takes an entire month to make the basket for the baby since Macy’s has not yet come into existence. The infant’s...

Emotionally alienated from her parents but living in their home, Sara Solomon is helped in therapy. She gains the strength to move from Tampa, Florida, to Palm Oasis on the east coast where her landlady, Helen, an older woman, both employs and befriends her. The women find dates through an online...