Monday, July 27, 2009

Woo Hoo! What's the "Buzz?"

Buzz Miller makes her debut in my first novel, Totally Buzzed-slated for e-book print with Echelon Press in 2010.

Totally Buzzed begins outside the fictitious town of White Bass Lake, Wisconsin, where the body of a neighbor woman turns up stashed under Buzz Miller’s mother’s house. The retired detective is roped into finding out “who dunnit” by a childhood friend, who also happens to be the local sheriff.

In order to accomplish this, Buzz, Wisconsin’s newest member of the AARP, along with her smart-mouthed Biology teacher sister Mag, “The Maggot” Miller, and Ian Connor, a plant geek from Milwaukee (who is not exactly what he seems), have only to find the murderer by following a trail of endangered plants, breaking up an international drug trafficking ring, uncovering a designer drug lab, and avoid being bumped off by the bad guys.

Simple enough, right? That is, until her mom’s wacky “Geriatric SWAT Team” friends turn the crime scene into a neighborhood barbeque, her bumbling sisters Fred and Al literally fall into the evidence, and her 160 pound Newfoundland chews up most of her initial investigation!

Welcome to White Bass Lake, Wisconsin, where the brats are on the grill, the beer is in the cooler, the corpse is under the house, and the Jell-O salads are as disturbing as they are plentiful!

Quirky characters, slapstick adventures, a flatulent Bulldog, and a bird named Kitty add sparkle to small town Midwestern life as local citizens gather at Sal’s Diner to share gossip, and the Miller sisters solve a murder.