Another Fine Mess

About the Book

Growing old isn’t for sissies, as Laurel Baley and Olive Harting discover. Their husbands are in the memory care unit at Meadowdale Manor, a retirement community in Garland, Texas, when they discover it isn’t just mismanagement but murder stalking the halls. The senior citizens are soon embroiled in another fine mess (as Laurel and Hardy used to say), when they look into the larceny and lunacy going on. Soon they are joined by other “guests” of Meadowdale to catch the villain, and mayhem ensues. Join them as they find fun and friendship in the senior citizen community.

About the Author

Ann McCollough Cornelius was raised in Southern California. She held a variety of Administrative positions with major corporations in Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia and Tulsa, Oklahoma over the years. On her return to Los Angeles from Atlanta, she met her husband, James Cornelius, in church. She was a legal secretary at Paramount Studios and he was an independent music publisher working with music legend Snuff Garrett. They were married in 1989, and soon after moved to twenty-two acres in Royse City, Texas where they built Country Lane B&B. Ann has used her talent in writing for many of the companies where she worked. Her first poetry was published in 1992, and she began to write for Chansen Publishing, an advertorial magazine, in 2001. She also wrote a weekly column for the Rockwall County News for two years. Her knowledge of the problems facing seniors comes from her work as a Benefits Counselor, a founding member of the Rockwall County Committee on Aging, and serving Meals on Wheels. James and Ann were married twenty-five years. When he passed from Alzheimer’s disease, she moved to Oklahoma to live with her daughter, Julie Romine, and her family in the woods outside Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Ann also has a daughter in Owasso, Oklahoma, and a son in Fate, Texas, along with many grand and great-grand children.