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Rita Lakin Books in Order

Rita Lakin has written 11 books, published between 2005 and 2019. The first book is Getting Old is Murder (2005) and the newest is Getting Old Will Haunt You (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2005–2019
Pages on record
2,878 in 10 of 11 books
Reading time
48–72 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,878 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

See all 11 books in order Printable Rita Lakin checklist

Rita Lakin wrote the Gladdy Gold mysteries, whose detective is an older woman living among retirees. Eleven books are catalogued between Getting Old is Murder (2005) and Getting Old Will Haunt You (2019); the Getting Old titles carry most of the run, among them Getting Old is the Best Revenge (2006), Getting Old is Criminal (2007), Getting Old is a Disaster (2008) and Getting Old Can Kill You (2011). Lakin worked first in television, with 474 produced scripts across 30 productions between about 1962 and 1981, and The Only Woman in the Room (2015) is her memoir of being one of the first women show runners. Lakin was born in the Bronx in 1930 and died in 2023.

How many Rita Lakin books are there?

Rita Lakin has 11 books, released between 2005 and 2019. 9 of them belong to the Gladdy Gold series.

Rita Lakin Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Rita Lakin books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Getting Old is the Best Revenge by Rita Lakin, book 2 of the Gladdy Gold series (2006)
  2. Cover of Getting Old is Criminal by Rita Lakin, book 3 of the Gladdy Gold series (2007)
  3. Cover of Getting Old is To Die For by Rita Lakin, book 4 of the Gladdy Gold series (2007)
  4. Cover of Getting Old is a Disaster by Rita Lakin, book 5 of the Gladdy Gold series (2008)
  5. Cover of Getting Old is Tres Dangereux by Rita Lakin, book 6 of the Gladdy Gold series (2009)
  6. Cover of Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin, book 7 of the Gladdy Gold series (2011)
  7. Cover of Getting Old Can Hurt You by Rita Lakin, book 8 of the Gladdy Gold series (2018)
  8. Cover of Getting Old Will Haunt You by Rita Lakin, book 9 of the Gladdy Gold series (2019)
  1. 1
    Getting Old is MurderGladdy Gold #12005 · confirmed 2/4
    2005–
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  2. 2
    Getting Old is the Best RevengeGladdy Gold #22006 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006336
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  3. 3
    Getting Old is CriminalGladdy Gold #32007 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007384
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  4. 4
    Getting Old is To Die ForGladdy Gold #42007 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007320
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  5. 5
    Getting Old is a DisasterGladdy Gold #52008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008368
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  6. 6
    Getting Old is Tres DangereuxGladdy Gold #62009 · 333 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009333
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  7. 7
    Getting Old Can Kill YouGladdy Gold #72011 · 273 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011273
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  8. 8
    The Four Coins of the Kabbalah2013 · 194 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013194
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  9. 9
    The Only Woman in the Room2015 · 286 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015286
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  10. 10
    Getting Old Can Hurt YouGladdy Gold #82018 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018192
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  11. 11
    Getting Old Will Haunt YouGladdy Gold #92019 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019192
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Rita Lakin books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Gladdy Gold in order

9 books
  1. 1. Getting Old is Murder
  2. 2. Getting Old is the Best Revenge
  3. 3. Getting Old is Criminal
  4. 4. Getting Old is To Die For
  5. 5. Getting Old is a Disaster
  6. 6. Getting Old is Tres Dangereux
  7. 7. Getting Old Can Kill You
  8. 8. Getting Old Can Hurt You
  9. 9. Getting Old Will Haunt You

Standalone books

2 books

2 Rita Lakin titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Rita Lakin books in order?

You only need to read Rita Lakin books in order within the Gladdy Gold series, which holds 9 of the 11 Rita Lakin books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Rita Lakin

Start with Getting Old is Murder (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Rita Lakin book?

Getting Old Will Haunt You (2019) is the newest Rita Lakin book released so far.

Is there a new Rita Lakin book coming?

No next Rita Lakin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Rita Lakin at a glance

Died
Rita Lakin died in 2023, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Rita Lakin on record dates from 2019.
Release pace
Rita Lakin books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,878 pages across the 10 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 303 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Rita Lakin books, 6 of 11, were published in the 2000s.

What the Rita Lakin books are about

10 of the 11 Rita Lakin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: gladdy gold (fictitious character) is tagged on 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.