Overview
Cleaning up messes is her job—solving murders is just a bonus. But this time, the dirt runs deadly deep!
Meet Sonja Hovland, entrepreneur of the Dirty Business Housecleaning Services. In addition to her cleaning skills, Sonja often makes inquiries for her clients of a personal nature. As Sonja often says, “There’s nothing wrong with killing two birds with one stone, is there?” But when Sonja goes to clean a swanky new office in downtown La Crosse, she finds a dentist dead in his chair. Things heat up fast, and Sonja finds herself in the throes of a full-blown murder investigation. Join Sonja, her husband, Trygve, and La Crosse Police Chief Tanya Pedretti, as they pit their investigative skills against a murderer who is determined to rid society of the evils of capitalism. A rousing new series sure to capture the reader’s attention!
From the author of the award-winning Driftless Mystery Series comes a sharp new sleuth with a mop in one hand and a murder case in the other.
Meet Sonja Hovland, the no-nonsense owner of Dirty Business Housecleaning Services—a woman who’s just as good at digging up secrets as she is at scrubbing them away. When a routine cleaning job at a chic downtown La Crosse office turns deadly, Sonja finds herself staring down more than just dust bunnies—a local dentist is dead, and the crime scene's spotless.
With help from her loyal husband Trygve, tough-as-nails Police Chief Tanya Pedretti, and a ragtag crew of working-class allies, Sonja scrubs away the surface to uncover a killer with a twisted anti-capitalist agenda.
Smart, sassy, and packed with heart, this blue-collar mystery series brings small-town grit, big-time stakes, and plenty of surprises.
Author Bio
Sue Berg is a Wisconsin native and a cheerleader for the Midwestern way of life. The beauty of Wisconsin, the authenticity of its people, and the rural way of life are all ideals she incorporates into her novels. Since retiring from a teaching career that spanned thirty-two years, Sue has pursued writing full-time and has completed six novels in the award-winning Driftless Mystery Series set in coulees and bluffs of La Crosse, Wisconsin and Death at the Dentist, the first novel in The Dirty Business Mystery Series, which features housecleaner, Sonja Hovland and her blue-collar cohorts.
Sue resides in the beautiful Driftless Area near Viroqua, Wisconsin with her husband, Alan. She enjoys gardening, quilting, writing, and camping on the Mississippi River with her family.
