A peek at BOOB Girls VI

A peek at BOOB Girls VI: From the Eye of the Moose.

Robinson Leary has inherited a haunted bed and breakfast in Salem’s Crossing, Nebraska. While cleaning the place – which was horrendously dust and cobweb covered, Hadley found a safety deposit key in a drawer of a beautiful little antique Eastlake table. The next day, they headed into town to visit the bank.

The bank was a typical small town bank. The teller’s cages were antiques but beautifully preserved. The wooden floor shown brightly and the entire building smelled of polish and age which almost hid the sneaky little odor of mouse urine.  Marge counted twelve people standing in line at the tellers’ cages, making out deposit and withdrawal slips and talking to the bankers seated at desks in the big room. They stood in line in front of the teller with the fewest people.

Coming in right behind them was a young man wearing black boots, black jeans, black turtle neck and black sweatshirt.  Topping off his ensemble was a black ski mask pulled down over his face. He was carrying a rifle.  Unnoticed by the customers who were concentrating on other things, he moved to the back of the room and in a very loud voice said, “Everybody on the floor! Now!”

The girls turned as one, surprise on their faces and looked at him. The other customers were dropping to the floor just as they had seen in bank robberies in the movies. Hadley, Robbie, Mary Rose and Marge however, stayed upright.

Hadley put one hands on her hips and leaned toward him. “Are you kidding?” she said in a loud voice. “Look at us. We don’t do floors! If we get on that floor we will never get up!”

Robbie shook a finger at the robber. “Does your mother know this is what you do for a living?!”

Mary Rose took two steps to stand right beside and very close to the young man, whose eyes were looking slightly startled through the slits of the ski mask.  She pointed to the gun. “Young man, you have a magnificent weapon. What kind of gun is that?”

The kid looked at the gun, then at Mary Rose and opened his mouth. That’s when Marge Aaron lifted her gain, pressed a jewel and TASER’d him in the balls.

A Note from Joy:

Thanks to all of you who came to the launch party September 13. The band, Clan Grady was excellent, the food was super, the laughter non-stop and now a whole lot of BOOB Girls are reading book VI.

If you missed that party, there’s another.

I am proud to be the first author signing at the new location for our favorite bookstore, The Bookworm. The worm will crawl at the end of September to the beautiful new Loveland Plaza on the northeast corner of 90^th and Center. It’s a great new location and I hope to break a bottle of our cheap champagne on the corner to christen it properly. Come! Even if you already have the book, let’s get The Bookworm off to a good start.

The Bookworm, signing of BOOB Girls VI:

Sunday, October 12, 1-3pm. 

Other “joyful” events where Joy will speak and sign:

A Stitch in Crime, Mystery Bookstore, Saturday, September 20, 4pm:

1414 S 13th St, Omaha, NE 68108 (402) 342-7343

Waterloo NE Public Library, Wednesday, September 24, 7pm

23704 Cedar Dr, Waterloo, NE 68069  (402) 779-4171

Council Bluffs IA Senior Cente, Friday, September 26, 10am

714 South Main, Council Bluffs, Iowa 712-323-5995

Watch for a calendar of October dates.

If you want to schedule Joy to speak to your group, email her at joy.johnson@msn.com

And to buy BOOB Girl books, send a check to Joy Johnson, Centering Corporation, 7230 Maple St, Omaha NE 68134 for $16 for each book in the series. (includes shipping) or place your credit card order on www.theboobgirls.com.

I: The BOOB Girls: The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12

II: The BOOB Girls II: Lies, Spies and Cinnamon Rolls

III: The BOOB Girls III: Sandhills and Shadows

IV: The BOOB Girls: Murder at Meadow Lakes

V: The BOOB Girls: The Secret of the Red Cane

VI: The BOOB Girls: From the Eye of the Moose