by Gale Borger
Mag squealed and threw her arms around his neck, giving him a smooch deluxe.
Wes sat there grinning upon the scene. He had noodles on his head and he was wagging his tail, while Hilary delicately passed gas. She cleared the area, everyone running for cover. I held my nose and yelled, "All right, who's the wise guy who fed the Bulldog sauerkraut?"
A UPS van drove up the driveway. Alejandro knocked his chair over running toward it. He bobbed his head up and down and danced to the back of the truck. Together he and the UPS man unloaded a long rectangular box. J.J. and Moe jogged over to help. They carried the box and set it down near the back door.
Alejandro cleared his throat and took my mother by the arm. He called Dad over and spoke to the crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen, you all have been very kind to me since I came to your town. The Miller family gave me shelter when I could have been murdered. For this I can never repay them. As a token of my gratitude, I offer you this gift. I ordered it special from Arizona."
The crowd gathered around as Mom cheerfully opened the box. Jan and Jane helped her with the lid. My dad moved in so he could see better and froze. The women oooed and ahhhed over the gift, and when the lid fell back, I about fainted.
There, staring my dad in the eye was a goddamn cowboy lamp with a rattle snake crawling up the pole. My mom clapped, Dad stood there stunned, and Alejandro grinned from ear to ear. I put my arm around Mag and Fred and said, "Here we go again, girls."
Gale Borger has been involved in law enforcement for over 20 years. This gives Gale an endless source of background material for her books. Growing up in a screwball household also gives her a sense for the zany and the bizarre. Gale writes what she knows, and she knows bad guys and funny stuff—but not necessarily in that order!
Gale lives in Southeastern Wisconsin with her husband and daughter, a Dogue de Bordeaux, two cats, about 1500 tropical fish, an African Horned Toad, a side-neck turtle, two dwarf hamsters, and a leopard gecko.
When Gale is not writing, she and her husband breed and swap tropical fish. Gale is also a Master Gardener and after work can usually be found in a flower bed up to her ears in weeds, or volunteering at a local gardening event.
Totally Buzzed is the first book in the Miller Sisters Mysteries.
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