Deb Baker
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Deb Baker is an American mystery writer from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
who has created three mystery series.
. She has written two series under her own name. The Dolls To Die For series features a Phoenix, Arizona doll collecting club and member Gretchen Birch, who solves murders with her new age Aunt Nina while sharing a doll restoration business with her mother. Baker also wrote the humorous Yooper/backwoods mysteries centering around a fictitious town in the Michigan Upper Peninsula where Gertie Johnson, mother of the local sheriff, solves murders the old fashioned way with friends Cora Mae and Kitty. Using the pen name
Hannah Reed, she writes the Queen Bee mystery series about Story Fischer, a Wisconsin beekeeper.
Baker lived in Gladstone, Michigan before moving to De Pere, Wisconsin where she graduated from East De Pere High School. She earned a degree in English with emphasis on creative writing from the University of Wisconsin and began her writing career. She currently resides in North Lake, Wisconsin.
Baker’s first novel, Murder Passes the Buck, was based on her personal experience in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. The colorful characters she created won her the Authorlink International First Novelist Award http://writersinfo.info/awards.html in the mystery category, then went on to win Best of Show.
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan. It is also known as the land "above the Bridge" linking the two peninsulas. The peninsula is bounded...
who has created three mystery series.
Biography
Deb Baker writes American mystery fictionMystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
. She has written two series under her own name. The Dolls To Die For series features a Phoenix, Arizona doll collecting club and member Gretchen Birch, who solves murders with her new age Aunt Nina while sharing a doll restoration business with her mother. Baker also wrote the humorous Yooper/backwoods mysteries centering around a fictitious town in the Michigan Upper Peninsula where Gertie Johnson, mother of the local sheriff, solves murders the old fashioned way with friends Cora Mae and Kitty. Using the pen name
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
Hannah Reed, she writes the Queen Bee mystery series about Story Fischer, a Wisconsin beekeeper.
Baker lived in Gladstone, Michigan before moving to De Pere, Wisconsin where she graduated from East De Pere High School. She earned a degree in English with emphasis on creative writing from the University of Wisconsin and began her writing career. She currently resides in North Lake, Wisconsin.
Baker’s first novel, Murder Passes the Buck, was based on her personal experience in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. The colorful characters she created won her the Authorlink International First Novelist Award http://writersinfo.info/awards.html in the mystery category, then went on to win Best of Show.
Gertie Johnson
- Murder Passes the Buck
- Murder Grins and Bears It
- Murder Talks Turkey
- Murder Bites the Bullet
- Cooking Can Be Murder
- Gertie Johnson Boxed Set
Gretchen Birch Murder Mysteries
- Dolled Up For Murder
- Goodbye Dolly
- Dolly Departed
- Guise and Dolls (originally published as Ding Dong Dead)
- Gretchen Birch Boxed Set'