Murder Passes The Buck
by Deb Baker
Midnight Ink
Mystery
August 1, 2006
ISBN-13: 0738708720
Available in: Paperback
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Murder Passes The Buck
by Deb Baker
Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guardian, but Gertie, a sassy sixty-six- year-old widow with a taste for detective work, has got bigger fish to fry: solving the murder of Chester Lampi who was shot dead in his deer blind. Blaze-who's more interested in retiring than investigating-rules Chester's death as a hunting accident. So, Gertie takes on the case with help from her friends, man-hungry Cora Mae and pin- curled Kitty. Interrogating neighbors, spying, impersonating the FBI . . . the stubborn, spunky grandmother won't give up the chase even when the killer takes aim at her.
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Deb Baker's Bio
Deb Baker (McGarity) was born in Escanaba, MI in 1953. Her family moved to Wisconsin in the 60s, but they kept strong ties to the Michigan Upper Peninsula. As a chronic late bloomer, Deb graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in English at the age of 45. Her first novel, Murder Passes the Buck, earned her The Authorlink International First Novelist Award where she took the mystery category, then went on to win Best of Show. The stories are set in her beloved Michigan backwoods and feature the unstoppable, unflappable Gertie Johnson. Others in the series include Murder Grins and Bears It and Murder Talks Turkey. Deb also writes a second series called the Dolls To Die For Series with doll restoration artist, Gretchen Birch. Titles are Dolled Up For Murder, Goodbye Dolly, Dolly Departed, and Ding Dong Dead.
Deb is Vice President of the Wisconsin chapter of Sisters In Crime and is active with Mystery Writers of America.
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