Mary Kay Andrews Books In Order

Callahan Garrity Books In Publication Order

  1. Every Crooked Nanny (1992)
  2. To Live and Die in Dixie (1993)
  3. Homemade Sin (1994)
  4. Happy Never After (1995)
  5. Heart Trouble (1996)
  6. Strange Brew (1997)
  7. Midnight Clear (1998)
  8. Irish Eyes (2000)
  9. Fatal Fruitcake (2012)
  10. Killer Fudge (2012)
  11. The Family Jewels (2014)

Truman Kicklighter Books In Publication Order

  1. Lickety-Split (1995)
  2. Crash Course (1997)

Weezie & Bebe Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Savannah Blues (2002)
  2. Savannah Breeze (2006)
  3. Blue Christmas (2006)
  4. Christmas Bliss (2013)

Beach Town Books In Publication Order

  1. Beach Town (2015)
  2. Change of Scene (2016)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Little Bitty Lies (2003)
  2. Hissy Fit (2004)
  3. Deep Dish (2008)
  4. The Fixer Upper (2009)
  5. Summer Rental (2011)
  6. Spring Fever (2012)
  7. Ladies’ Night (2013)
  8. Save the Date (2014)
  9. The Weekenders (2016)
  10. The High Tide Club (2018)
  11. Sunset Beach (2019)
  12. Hello, Summer (2020)
  13. The Newcomer (2021)
  14. The Santa Suit (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Beach House Cookbook (2017)

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Mary Kay Andrews Books Overview

Every Crooked Nanny

On the job as a house cleaner, former Atlanta cop Callahan Garrity must return to detective work when her employers discover that their pretty, young nanny has disappeared with some important real estate documents. PW. NYT.

To Live and Die in Dixie

While cleaning the home of Elliott Littlefield, housecleaner and part time private detective Callahan Garrity stumbles upon the bloody body of a murdered woman and is hired by Littlefield to recover a priceless Civil War diary stolen by the killer. PW.

Homemade Sin

Refusing to believe that her cousin’s mysterious death had been an accident, professional housecleaner Callahan Garrity begins a private investigation of Atlanta’s inner city and the shady deals of her cousin’s husband. PW.

Happy Never After

Since retiring from the Atlanta Police Department, Callahan Garrity is really cleaning up with her House Mouse housecleaning company especially since she added’crime investigation’ to the list of services offered. Callahan agrees to locate the missing member of the popular ’60s girl group, the VelvetTeens, and she doesn’t have to search long. Deloras Carter, the a.w.o.l. singer, is found passed out drunk by a swimming pool near the dead body of the trio’s former producer. The smoking gun in Deloras’s hand suggests that the VelvetTeens won’t be reuniting for a comeback tour anytime in the near future…
unless Callahan and her ‘Mice’ can spotlight and survive a different killer act.

Heart Trouble

The fifth novel in an acclaimed series featuring cleaning lady/sleuth Callahan Garrity.

Atlanta takes time out from its pre Olympic frenzy to obsess about the murder case of Whitney Dobbs. A boozy socialite, Whitney earned the wrath of the city when she killed a little girl in a hit and run. When Whitney is shot while doing her community service, Callahan is suspicious about the victim’s ex husband. Callahan gets help from her House Mouse cleaning team to track down one mean, mad killer.

Strange Brew

In five superlative mysteries, cleaning lady and sleuth Callahan Garrity has patrolled the uneasy border where antebellum and New South converge. Now, in her most timely and intricate adventure yet, she must step in when hippies, yuppies and crackers clash with murderous consequences. Overnight, it seems, Callahan’s Atlanta neighborhood is morphing from a genial mix of hobo and boho into an upscale, cappuccino drenched quarter. The most unsettling portent of this change is that YoYos, a venerable headshop, is being forced out of business so that a microbrewery can take over its prime location. As the neighborhood gears up for its raucous Halloween revels, Callahan realizes that trouble is brewing. Not only is a fierce tornado bearing down on Atlanta, but Wuvvy, the aging flower child who runs YoYos, is on an uncharacteristic rampage. And in the storm’s aftermath, Callahan’s fears are confirmed when she finds the bludgeoned corpse of the grasping young entrepreneur who was pushing Wuvvy out. The police are quick to pin the crime on Wuvvy, but Callahan can’t believe that this gentle soul would commit such a brutal act. Callahan’s unique ability to mingle both with superannuated hippies and small town Southern belles allows her to dig into the victim’s past and Wuvvy’s. She unearths a slew of succulent revelations about Wuvvy a tabloid worthy tale strikingly at odds with the woman Callahan thought she knew. Her search also forces her to reas*sess old friendships in light of deadly new developments. As Callahan’s investigation unfolds, she unleashes her wry wit, tussles with the outrageous band of ‘girls’ and one newly recruited ‘boy’ in her cleaning business and rekindles romance with her rugged beau, Mac McAuliffe. All in all, Strange Brew is superbly intoxicating suspense.

Midnight Clear

In six previous books, Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s Callahan Garrity series has risen to the apex of Southern suspense. Now the acclaimed sleuth’s latest outing shows how amply she and her creator deserve their acclaim, as Callahan and the outrageous band of ‘girls’ in her Atlanta cleaning crew set out during the Christmas rush to prove her no account brother innocent of his ex wife’s murder. It’s a few days before Christmas and Callahan thinks for once she has things under control. Her presents are all bought, her baking is almost done, and she’s relaxing with a well earned drink when her brother, Brianmissing for over ten yearsstrolls through the door, whistling off key carols and lugging his two year old daughter, Maura, in his arms. Happy as she is to see her charming brother and her ever more charming niece, Callahan hasn’t forgotten that Brian carries trouble wherever he goes. That’s never been truer than now, for Brian reveals he’s kidnapped Maura from his estranged wife, who’s on the warpath and, of course, has the law on her side. When Brian’s ex wife is found dead in her spectacularly messy apartment, the law comes down on Brian big time. True to form, Brian disappears again, leaving Maura behind for Callahan to look after, and forcing her to clear his name without his help. For Callahan knows that although Brian is many things, he’s no murderer. As the Christmas rush picks up, Callahan, her irascible mom, Edna, and a gaggle of House Mouse employees submerge themselves in the most dangerous undercurrents of Atlanta street life, and head for wherever else in the New South’s yuletide their search for truth leads them. In true Trocheck tradition, Midnight Clear is heartwarming, chilling, and hilariousa thoroughly up to date and irresistible Christmas tale.

Irish Eyes

Irish Eyes is the latest entry in Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s delightfully engaging and suspenseful mystery series featuring the remarkable Callahan Garrity and the outrageous band of ‘girls’ in her Atlanta cleaning crew. Callahan has her hands full for St. Patrick’s Day with a crime spree that hit., close to home and close to her heart. When Callahan was an Atlanta cop, her partner, Bucky, was a stand up guy, and he and Callahan have remained the best of pals. Now Bucky needs a date for the annual St. Paddy’s Day bash, and Callahan grudgingly goes along. With Mac, her longtime beau, talking about a possible move to Nashville, she’s in need of a fun night out. What she gets instead is the shock of her life. On the way home, Bucky is shot in what looks like a liquor store holdup while Callahan waits in the car. She’s stunned when accusations fly that Bucky is a cop on the take and that he’s actually been an accomplice in a string of robberies. With Bucky in critical condition, his life and reputation hanging in the balance, Callahan and her crew set out to find the truth. As feisty and relentless as ever, Callahan, her lovable mom, Edna, and her ragtag band of House Mouse employees rely on their usual plucky determination and unorthodox sleuthing skills to get answers. This time, it will take every skill they’ve got to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding an Irish police fraternal organization and prove that the case is more than it seems. In true Trocheck fashion, Irish Eyes is an exciting, heartwarming story filled with lively, unforgettable characters. Witty and entertaining, it is also the biggest, best Callahan Garrity outing yet, tension riddled mystery that probes the depths of corruption, friendship, and betrayal.

Lickety-Split

Retired reporter extraordinaire Truman Kicklighter goes back into action when one of his oldest friends is accused of murder, an investigation that leads to a dangerous confrontation with a ruthless gang of gamblers that threatens his own life.

Crash Course

Murder gets a green light When Jackleen Canaday’s newly bought dream machine an ’88 Corvette T top turns out to be a lemon, senior sleuth Truman Kicklighter comes to her aid. As they head for the dealership, they’re spoiling for a fight but they’re completely unprepared for what they find: the corpse of the man who sold Jackleen her clunker. More than his passion for justice drives Truman to unmask the killer the cops suspect Jackleen of murder. Truman goes undercover at the devious dealership and discovers a bloody trail of insurance fraud and drug money. That trail could lead him to the great showroom in the sky.

Savannah Blues

For fans of Susan Isaacs and Jennifer Cruise comes a witty, wisecracking tale of divorce, revenge, and great antiques, set in sultry Savannah. Landing a catch like ultra WaspTalmadge Evans III got Eloise ‘Weezie’ Foley a jewel of a town house in Savannah’s historic district. Divorcing Tal got her exiled into the backyard carriage house, where she has launched a spite fest with Tal’s new fianc e, the elegant Caroline DeSantos. The War of the Roses is nothing compared to the escalating hostilities between Weezie and Caroline. Weezie is an antiques ‘picker’ who combs Savannah’s steamy back alleys and garage sales for treasures, when she’s not dealing with her loopy relatives or her hunky ex boyfriend. She is convinced that her troubles will be over if she makes a big killing at the upcoming estate sale at a noble plantation house. But an unauthorized ‘sneak preview’ at the sale lands Weezie smack in the middle of magnolia scented murder, mayhem…
and more. Dirty deals simmerall around her just as her relationship with the hottest chef in town heats up, and she finds out how delicious love can be the second time around.

Savannah Breeze

Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an ‘investment counselor’ who turns out to be a con man. All that”s left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Island an eccentric beach town that calls itself a drinking village with a fishing problem. Breeze Inn is a place where the very classy BeBe wouldn”t normally be caught dead, but with no alternative, she moves into the manager”s unit, vowing to make magic out of mud. The work is grueling, especially dealing with the bad tempered caretaker, a fishing captain named Harry who”s trying to earn enough dough to get his boat out of hock. With the help of Harry and her junking friend Weezie, BeBe soon has the motel spiffed up and attracting paying guests. Then there”s a sighting of Reddy in Fort Lauderdale, and BeBe decides to go after him. She puts together a posse, and with the irrepressible Granddaddy Loudermilk snoring in the backseat of the Buick, heads south. The plan is to carry out a sting that may be just a little bit outside the law but that, with any luck at all, will retrieve BeBe”s fortune and put the dastardly Reddy in jail, where he belongs. And maybe Harry, who”s looking more hunky every day, will finally get his boat back.

Blue Christmas

The popular Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characters from Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze for a little Southern cheer.

It’s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest which she intends to win. She throws herself into putting up a Graceland/Blue Christmas motif, with lots of tinsel, an aluminum tree, and all kinds of tacky retro stuff. The project takes up so much time that Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she’s done, but the results are stunning. She’s sure she’s one upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner. But suddenly, things go missing from Weezie’s display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.

Still, Weezie has high hopes for the holiday maybe in the form of an engagement ring from her chef boyfriend. But Daniel, always moody at the holidays, seems more distant than usual.

Throw in Weezie’s decidedly odd family, a 1950s Christmas tree pin, and even a little help from the King himself, and maybe there will be a pocketful of miracles for Weezie this Christmas eve.

Little Bitty Lies

In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn’t notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he’s gone. Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with seventeen year old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what’s left of her life by telling one little bitty lie. At first she simply tells friends and family that Parker is out of town on a consulting job. Then, the lies start to snowball, until Parker turns up dead. Or does he?

Mary Bliss’s formerly staid existence careens into overdrive as she copes with an oversexed teenager, an elderly mother in law with strange delusions, and the sudden but delicious shock of finding herself pursued by two men the next door neighbor who’s looking for a suitable second wife, and a dangerously attractive ex cop who’s looking for the truth about Parker McGowan.

Little Bitty Lies is a comic Southern novel about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small town secrets, and one woman’s lifelong quest for home. And the perfect recipe for chicken salad.

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Hissy Fit

Welcome to the world of Mary Kay Andrews, where manners are polished, reputations are tarnished…
and revenge issweet.

Keeley Murdock’s wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the Hissy Fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.

Even worse is the financial pressure A.J.’s banking family brings to bear on Keeley’s interior design business. But riding to the rescue in a vintage yellow Cadillac is the redheaded stranger who’s purchased a failing local bra plant. Will Mahoney hires Keeley to redo the derelict antebellum mansion he’s bought. Her assignment: decorate it for the woman of his dreams a woman he’s never met.

Only a designing woman like Keeley Murdock can find a way to clear her name and give her cheating varmint of an ex fiance the comeuppance he so richly deserves. And only Mary Kay Andrews can deliver such delicious social satire. With Hissy Fit, she’s created a story as outrageous, dishy, and true as Savannah Blues and Little Bitty Lies.

Deep Dish

Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn’t expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she’s dating the show’s producer.

But when her show gets canceled, and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss’s wife, Gina realizes that she’s meant for bigger and better things. The Cooking Channel is looking for its next star, and Gina is certain that she fits the bill. Trouble is, the execs also have their eye on Mr. ‘Kill It and Grill It’ Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show called Vittles. Tate is the ultimate man’s man, with a dog named Moonpie and a penchant for flannel shirts. Little does Gina know, though, that she and Tate are soon to embark on the cook off of their lives.

The Fixer Upper

The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman’s quest to fix up her house…
and her life

After a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. She reluctantly accepts to refurbish Birdsong, the old family place in Guthrie, Georgia.

But, oh, is Dempsey in for a surprise. ‘Bird Droppings would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol pink dump. There’s also a murderously grumpy old lady who has claimed squatter’s rights and isn’t moving out. Ever.

Furthermore, everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey’s business, from a smooth talking real estate agent to a cute former lawyer who owns the local newspaper. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the pesky FBI agents who show up on Dempsey’s doorstep, hoping to pry information about her ex boss from her.

All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. And before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected back home again.

Summer Rental

Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction…
. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she’s made over the past decade of her life. Julia whose caustic wit covers up her wounds has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can t hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina s Outer Banks is just what each of them needs. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he s hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he s ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month that might just give it to them. ‘Mary Kay Andrews spins a beach blanket sizzler around three lifelong friends…
This warm weather treat has a lot going for it, not least the sunny forecast that summer love can blossom into a four season commitment.’ Publishers Weekly

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