Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Mar 10, 2006
Savannah Blues
By Mary Kay Andrews
Harper Collins, pub. 2003
ISBN: 0-06-051913-4
I have a new favorite southern author and she goes by the name of Mary Kay Andrews, who is well known for her reporting on the infamous Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil murder trials in Savannah. In her novel, Savannah Blues, Mary Kay gives us a feisty southern belle heroine with an eccentric family, even crazier friends and a mutt of a dog that poots on unwelcome visitors.
Eloise "Wheezie" Foley, is an antiques picker in Savannah, Georgia. Due to an unscrupulous judge and a slime of an ex-husband, she is relegated to the carriage house in back of the historic townhouse that she herself found, remodeled and loved. Add to that an on-going feud with her ex’s fiancée’, Caroline DeSantos, who is living in said townhouse and you have a downright, entertaining story filled with humor, quaint characters and non-stop fun.
In true southern style, Wheezie lands herself in a heck of a mess when she makes a clandestine potty trip into a plantation house filled with antiques to be sold in auction the next day. But a dead body and subsequent missing antiques from that house drag her kicking and screaming into a mosquito-biting mystery that she is determined to solve.
With her dog, Jethro, her best friend, BeBe Loudermilk, and Savannah’s most popular chef/ex-boyfriend, Danny Stipanek, Wheezie takes us on a journey where history is first and foremost and relatives and friends are everlasting.
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©2006 Dana Sieben
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