Gertie Johnson is back for another investigation by The Trouble Busters. With her friends Cora and Kitty, they begin checking out every possible suspect leading to some different situations. Fun cozy mystery. ( )

Ha ha ha ha!

When 66 year old widow Gertie Johnson and her friend Cora Mae are in line at the credit union, waiting to cash their Social Security checks on that blustery cold April day, the last thing they thought they'd have to contend with was a bank robbery. Not a lot ever happens in the tiny town of Stonely, Michigan, and this event promised to be something to talk about for weeks. But one of the tellers hits the panic button and the local inept Deputy Sheriff Dickey Snell comes running to the rescue, just as a sniper from a rooftop across the street shoots the robber square between the eyes as he's coming out of the safe carrying a pillowcase full of what turns out to be Monopoly money. Something is mighty funny about this whole business, and Gertie soon recruits her partners in Trouble Busters (their fledgling "detective" business) to figure out what's going on. But before she can get a handle on things, the sniper is found dead with a bullet between his eyes lying behind Gertie's truck with her gun smoking on the ground next to him. Hiding her flaming red hair (the result of a haircoloring accident that she has grown to like) under a series of Cora Mae's wigs, Gertie goes undercover, trusting only a few people to help her find out where the real money went and who keeps killing people. Having to contend with her crotchety 92 year old senile mother-in-law and her mentally addled son, Sheriff Blaze Johnson who is recovering slowly from a near-fatal round of meningitis, Gertie has her hands full this time around.

I really enjoy this series of books. The characters crack me up and the story this time was complicated enough that every time I thought I knew who the bad guy was, I was wrong. I did finally figure it out, but the story was hilarious all the way through to the end. Lord, I wish I knew these gals! ( )