Danger Under Ground: An Alice Ott Mystery

by Dusty J. Miller

Alice Ott is on the move again as she investigates a highly charged kidnapping. Her oldest friend Felicia, her dashing French lover Gerard, and their young tattooed friends Warp and RubyStarr, help Alice to expose the politically-motivated crime. The victim is the wife of Frank Hastings, a retired doctor who is leading the fight to stop a fracked gas pipeline that threatens to destroy the farms and villages of Oakfield. Alice suspects that the Global Energies Technologies corporation has a hand in the crime. She is dismayed when the doctor tries to cover-up his wife’s abduction, insisting that Emily’s increasing dementia will escalate if the police get involved. When the FBI is called in, the stakes get higher as Alice’s young friend RubyStarr becomes the primary suspect. Tension mounts when the news of a deadly pipeline explosion is reported, and the G.E.T. corporation is once again implicated.

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Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Dusty Miller’s passion as an activist, and her life-long addiction to fiction compelled her to write the adventures of Alice Ott, Raging Granny and cyber sleuth.Danger in the Air takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure from the quiet villages of Western New England into the epicenter of biological warfare, the high security labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. Alice Ott, with the help of a small band of concerned senior citizens, exposes a lethal cover-up. Alice successfully eludes dangerous covert operatives in her quest to reveal the origins of the infamous anthrax letters. Along the way, she reunites with her long-lost French lover and co-conspirator, Gerard, and proves that age is a state of mind.

Before starting her current life as a mystery writer, Dr. Dusty Miller spent many years as a psychotherapist and trauma expert, teaching nationally and internationally. She is the author of numerous articles and books about the impact of childhood trauma in the adult lives of survivors. Her most popular book, Women Who Hurt Themselves (1994; reprinted in 2005 as a 10th Anniversary edition) has been a national and international success. She has appeared on popular television talks shows and has been interviewed nationally and internationally.

Miller is already hard at work on a the sequel to Danger in the Air, another political mystery featuring 80 year old sleuth Alice Ott and the Raging Grannies.Burning Questions involves Alice in the investigation of a poison-spewing nuclear plant, exposing Government corruption and covert alliances. She expands her investigative team to include three young adventurers from the Occupy Movement.

Dusty Miller is a member of the Raging Grannies, and lives on a small lake in Western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats.