Every Crooked Nanny (Callahan Garrity Series #1)

by Mary Kay Andrews

Overview

“Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself.”— Sue Grafton

The first entry in a thoroughly original and witty series that sets Atlanta house cleaner cum sleuth Callahan Garrity on the trail of a client’s missing au pair, now published under the name Mary Kay Andrews for the first time.

Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth, and she and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set.

Callahan is on the job when her client announces that her pretty, nineteen-year-old Mormon nanny has disappeared—along with jewelry, silver, and some sensitive real-estate documents.

Soon Callahan and her crew of eccentric cleaners are involved in a job messier than any they've ever encountered. Illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, long-distance scams— it's going to require some industrial-strength sleuthing on Callahan's part to solve this one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062195081
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/26/2013
Series:	Callahan Garrity Series , #1
Pages:	298
Sales rank:	49,964
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and The Beach House Cookbook. A former reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hometown:

Atlanta, Georgia

Date of Birth:

July 27, 1954

Place of Birth:

Tampa, Florida

Education:

B.A. in newspaper journalism, University of Georgia, 1976

Website:

http://www.MaryKayAndrews.com

What People are Saying About This

Sue Grafton

“Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself.”

Editorial Reviews

Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself.” — Sue Grafton

“Crisp intelligence and earthy wit.” — New York Times

“A clever, colorful page-turner, not to be missed…A high caliber debut.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Crisp intelligence and earthy wit.

New York Times

Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself.

Sue Grafton

Hilary Huber’s husky voice is perfect for Julia “Callahan” Garrity, a feisty part-time private detective who also runs a housecleaning service with her equally feisty mother. While cleaning a wealthy new client’s home, Callahan is asked to help find the family’s missing nanny, who turns up murdered. Huber brings out Callahan’s tough former-cop attitude as she investigates the murder—and ends up badly beaten, but not deterred, by hired thugs. Huber also expresses Callahan’s vulnerability as she tries to ignore a frightening breast lump. Huber is delightful with the Georgia accents and with men, women, young, and old. The gritty, somewhat dated mystery (originally published in 1992) is greatly enhanced by Huber’s colorful narration. M.M.G. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

MAY 2013 - AudioFile

Hilary Huber’s husky voice is perfect for Julia “Callahan” Garrity, a feisty part-time private detective who also runs a housecleaning service with her equally feisty mother. While cleaning a wealthy new client’s home, Callahan is asked to help find the family’s missing nanny, who turns up murdered. Huber brings out Callahan’s tough former-cop attitude as she investigates the murder—and ends up badly beaten, but not deterred, by hired thugs. Huber also expresses Callahan’s vulnerability as she tries to ignore a frightening breast lump. Huber is delightful with the Georgia accents and with men, women, young, and old. The gritty, somewhat dated mystery (originally published in 1992) is greatly enhanced by Huber’s colorful narration. M.M.G. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

MAY 2013 - AudioFile