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Anonymous
Posted December 23, 2011
Enjoyed the humor and suspense!
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Posted June 16, 2011
Deb Bakers' Gertie Johnson books should be issued with a Surgeon General Warning on the spine. Do NOT attempt to eat or drink while reading. Causes serious choking. Could be hazardous to your health. Could also be addictive.
I was immediately hooked on Gertie from the first chapter. It wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't think I actually know some of those people and I could so easily picture them getting into some of those situations. You will find it hard to see your neighbors or sit next to people in church now that you know what they might be up to in their private moments. It is a marvelous thing to have an older protagonist in a book, someone with a little knowledge of how the world really works, who has had the shine rubbed off, and has come to the point in their lives they can laugh at the worst situations.
If you are in the mood for a change of pace from bodice ripping romance or technical detective work and want to just go along for a wild, wild ride then put down your coffee cup and jump in with Gertie, Cora Mae and Kitty. I guarantee you will feel liberated.
Anonymous
Posted September 24, 2008
It¿s ¿The Fugitive,¿ geriatric-style, in Deb Baker¿s third Yooper mystery featuring sixty-six year-old Gertie Johnson. When a bank robber misguidedly attempts to rob the bank 'not the brightest decision in a town where nearly all the citizens fulfill their right to bear arms' and is shot dead, you would think that the case would be closed. It would be if not for the fact that no one is owning up to shooting the robber, and while the bank is showing a loss of funds the bag of money held by the criminal was from a Monopoly game. With the sheriff, Gertie¿s son Blaze, suffering from Malaria-induced Vietnam flashbacks that make him even less helpful than usual, the replacement deputy is bent on solving the case especially when al the evidence seems to point towards Gert. A body is left by her pickup truck with her son¿s weapon left by the corpse, so Gert goes on the lam aided and hindered by her best friends and mother-in-law. Wigged out, undercover, and destroying a few law enforcement vehicles, Gert is determined to protect her family and prove her innocence. Once again Baker creates a delightful mystery with a heroine who is feisty, strong, and never a caricature. Despite its cast of comical and unique characters the plot never takes a second seat and carries the reader swiftly through to the end. Full of humor with a surprising amount of emotional resonance as Gert finds herself isolated and persecuted, Murder Talks Turkey continues to entertain in this strong series with completely original characters and a fun plot.
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Posted September 12, 2011
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Posted October 26, 2008
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Overview
Murder Talks Turkey is approximately 60,000 words.In her third Yooper mystery (as in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, or U.P.), Baker’s lively protagonist, Gertie Johnson, is minding her own business, standing in line at the bank when it gets robbed. From her position on the floor, Gertie watches as a gunman on the roof of a nearby building shoots the bank robber dead. She quickly decides that she and the other two members of her Trouble Buster Investigative Company (all single women of a certain age) need to help their hapless sheriff solve the case. The trouble is feisty Gertie has a lot on her plate, what with her extended family, her other ...