Critics like Where's Billie?

The turnout for the Where's Billie? launch was gratifying, humbling and extensive. People were lined up out the door and up the steps at Once Upon A Crime mystery book store a few weeks ago. About 100 people came to say hi and buy the book, which is quite a few for the admittedly small bookstore already stuffed to the gills, with books.

It was a great party and my thanks go out to Pat and Gary, owners of the store. My only regret was that I couldn't talk as long with as many people as I wanted to.

Where's Billie? has enjoyed nice write ups in the Pioneer Press and from Andrea Cisco at Armchair Interviews.

Publishers Weekly not only chose to review Where's Billie? , a thrill in itself, but even said nice things:

"Borger, a former reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, successfully taps into a parent's constant concern—how to protect children in an increasingly dangerous world—in her compelling debut, the first in a series to feature Marguerite “Skeeter” Hughes, a Minneapolis Citizen reporter. While researching a story on a missing 18-year-old girl, Billie Berry, Skeeter soon senses something complex developing, especially after Billie's sleazy ex-boyfriend tells her he's heard Billie might be “turning tricks and doin' meth.” Further research takes Skeeter to the Mall of America, where she spies a handsome middle-aged man buying Abercrombie & Fitch clothes for a cute teen he's just met. Skeeter is horrified after she discovers the wolf is a middle-school principal. More snooping leads to threats to Skeeter's life as well as her marriage to a fellow reporter. Readers will want to hear more of Skeeter's punchy, first-person voice."

Happy dance going on here in the Bridgewater Lofts in Minneapolis.

To Read the first chapter of Where's Billie? click on the fiction tab.  I'd love to know what you think.