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.
- ISBN10 1597223883
- ISBN13 9781597223881
- Publish Date 1 December 2006 (first published 8 August 2006)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wheeler Publishing
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 315
- Language English