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|  | | Dolled Up For Murder
A Dolls to Die For mystery - Book 1
When Gretchen Birch reluctantly arrives in Phoenix, Arizona to search for her mother, a talented doll restorer, she thinks her Aunt Nina is performing her usual theatrics. But Nina, purse dog trainer and self-proclaimed psychic, fears her mother’s disappearance is connected with the death of Martha, an alcoholic has-been doll collector found at the base of a ridge on Camelback Mountain. Martha carried a small expensive French doll parasol in her pocket and a piece of paper implicating Gretchen’s mother clenched in her cold fist. Restringing an antique doll is child’s play compared to the skill | |  | | Dolly Departed
Book three in the Dolls To Die For series
When Gretchen finds Charlie Maize, the owner of the dollhouse shop Mini Maize, on the floor dead and covered with toppled miniature roomboxes, she fears that her death wasn’t an accident. One of the roomboxes—displays that depict real-life scenes with furniture and miniature dolls—is the set for a murder…complete with a tiny axe with a bloody blade and red splatters on the walls. As long as Gretchen can stop from being distracted by a devilishly handsome (and technically still married) detective, she'll follow the tiny clues—and perhaps stop a killer who makes murder child’s play. | |  | | Goodbye Dolly
A Dolls to Die For mystery - book 2
Gretchen's at her first major doll show without her mother (and only her flighty Aunt Nina there to "help"), praying she doesn't botch any repair jobs. But glue-gun glitches turn out to be the least of her worries when a sleazy reporter is found dead-with Gretchen's craft knife stuck in his back. Then someone begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages hidden inside. Now she must watch her step, or else she'll end up needing more than a few repairs...
| |  | | Murder Grins and Bears It
A Yooper mystery
On opening day of bear hunting season in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a game warden is murdered right under Little Donny’s tree stand, and Little Donny has gone missing. Sixty-six-year-old Gertie is forced to use her “unique” investigative techniques to try to find her favorite grandson.
Gertie’s search is hampered by her pin-curled bodyguard Kitty, her man-hungry friend Cora Mae, and Grandma Johnson, who should be busy mushing peas between her new false teeth in the Escanaba Nursing Home. To top it off, the local sheriff—Gertie’s son Blaze—seems more concerned with arresting Gertie f | |  | | Murder Passes the Buck
A Gertie Johnson backwoods adventure
When her neighbor Chester Lampi is shot and killed in his hunting blind, sixty-six-year-old widow Gertie Johnson seizes the opportunity to become a detective. Gertie is abetted (and hindered) in her investigation by her grandson Little Donny, man-hungry best friend Cora Mae, and volunteer bodyguard Kitty. It doesn’t help that Chester’s death has been ruled an accident by the sheriff of this backwoods community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Or that Sheriff Blaze Johnson happens to be Gertie’s son.
Whether it’s interrogating neighbors, spying, or impersonating the FBI—not to mention st | | | | Murder Talks Turkey
Book Three in the Yooper mystery series
It’s spring in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—an exciting season of rising temperatures, budding romances, and the turkey-hunting opener. But for sheer adrenaline value, neither love nor turkeys can compete with the Credit Union being held up at gunpoint. It’s not the best planning to commit a robbery in a town where everyone is armed for combat, and the gunman is shot dead in a room full of witnesses—but the stolen money has disappeared right in front of their eyes. Faster than you can say “Tom Turkey,” Gertie, Cora Mae, and Kitty are on the case. |
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