A Miller Sisters Mystery by Gale Borger
Buzz Miller is quite a character. The spunky retired police
detective of rural White Bass Lake, Wisconsin, carries an almost uncanny
ability to attract missteps and mishaps, even murder and mayhem, as Totally Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery, by
Gale Borger, details.
Totally
Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery is a comical mystery (or perhaps a
mysterious comedy), with more than 80,000 words of racing dialogue, colorful
description and somewhat circuitous action. The tangled plot holds readers’
interest, right from the intriguing and wholly surprising first few pages.
The story line of Totally
Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery begins with a start, as Buzz Miller and
her sister Mag (The Maggot) Miller discover a neighbor’s corpse under their own
mother’s house. Within a few pages, Buzz and Mag are trailing smugglers, horse
murderers, international drug traffickers and other unsavory sorts – all while
trying to stay alive.
Reviewer’s Note:This book reviewer received a complimentary copy of the book described and evaluated here, although the reviewer has no prior or existing relationship (either familial or professional) with the author or publisher.
This wise-cracking, but
action-filled novel does not aim at literary circles. Instead, it is a worthy
reading endeavor for popular-level readers. Although much of the plot of
Totally Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery focuses
on equestrian stables and rural town settings, the mystery novel holds interest
for general interest readers as well. The book includes adventure, comedy,
intrigue, romance and satire.
Gale Borger’s extensive first-hand
experience in detective work, forensic sciences, and police procedure is
evident in the content of Totally
Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery. Although significant technical vocabulary
is included in some sections of the book, readers need not be experts to follow
the content.
Overall, this is a quick read and a
most entertaining one. It is easy to see, based on her debut novel, why friends
and colleagues have tagged Gale Borger as a lively companion and an engaging
storyteller.
Published in August 2010 by Echlon
Press, Gale Borger’s Totally
Buzzed: A Miller Sisters Mystery is available in
eBook and trade paperback formats.
Gale Borger’s additional titles include
- Digging
Up Dirt (A Olive Branch Mystery Book 2)
- Everything's Coming Up Roses (An Olive Branch Mystery Book 6)
- Hosta
La Vista, Baby! (An Olive Branch Mystery Book 5)
- Kill Me Over the Garden Gate (An Olive Branch Mystery Book 3)
- The
Olive Branch Mystery: Death of a Garden Hoe
- Totally
Decked (A Miller Sisters Mystery)
- Totally
Fishy (A Miller Sisters Mystery
- Totally
Sleighed (A Miller Sisters Mystery)
- You
Say Tomahto and I Say You're Dead (An Olive Branch Mystery Book 4)
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