Danger Within: An Alice Ott Mystery

by Dusty J. Miller

When whistleblowers against a large assisted living corporation in Florida began getting seriously hurt and murdered, the remaining whistleblowers and concerned friends decided it was time to call a dear friend and the best amateur sleuth around, Alice Ott, a feisty Raging Granny. Impatient with COVID-19 restrictions, Alice and her crime-fighting crew leapt to action, leaving Western Massachusetts for Central Florida to face the challenges of COVID-19 as they worked to exposed corporate corruption that affected the nursing staff and their elderly patients.Danger Within is the fifth Alice Ott Mystery by Dusty J. Miller. Her other four fiction crime mystery books Danger in the Air (2012), Danger at the Gates (2014), Danger Under Ground (2017) and Danger in the House (2019).

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2021

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.