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Retired dentist Paul Osborne likes living in Loon Lake, Wisconsin. He spends his days fishing, thinking about his grown daughters and his grandchildren, and about police chief Lewellyn Ferris. Since Paul's wife died he's become very attracted to Lew and is trying his best to start a relationship with her but that's not easy. Lew is very busy being the chief of police and since she only has two deputies working for her she has to do a lot of the work herself. But when things get out of hand she can deputize some people and that is when Paul sees her the most. He is often deputized because he's a dentist and as close to being a medical examiner as Loon Lake gets. When three women are found dead in a car accident outside town it soon becomes clear that they were murdered someplace else and then the car was driven to another spot and made to look like it was overturned, killing the women. Peg Garmin was the driver of the car and also the town's ex-prostitute. The two younger women with her were exotic dancers. Peg had settled down and was no longer a prostitute and no one knew much about her two friends except that they were exotic so why would anyone want to kill them? Chief Ferris deputizes Doc Osborne, Robbie Mikkleson, the town's car mechanic and tow truck owner, and Ray, who is a fishing guide, to help solve this mystery. As the foursome investigates they learn some new things about the victims like they all went to the same plastic surgeon that Peg was now suing. They also discover that Peg was an heiress and also had a son. DEAD BOOGIE by Victoria Houston is the seventh in the Loon Lake series and the first that I've read. The series seems pleasant enough even though as an avid mystery reader I thought it was funny that a retired dentist was acting almost like a medical examiner and that mechanic Robbie Mikkleson's auto shop was being used by the FBI to examine the car but some things you have to let pass. I can see why the series is so popular. The characters are well written and interesting and their relationships with each other seem real. There is a lot about fishing and I have to admit that much of that went over my head but it was nice to read a cozy with a different gimmick to it. DEAD BOOGIE is a good book for an afternoon read.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, March 2006
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