Strange Brew
A Callahan Garrity Mystery
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Callahan Garrity mops up the scene in an Atlanta neighborhood where murder meets its match in this feisty, funny heroine. Strange Brew offers up a tidy mystery with a polished writing style and industrial strength suspense.” — Sue Grafton
The sixth book in the Callahan Garrity mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews finds the beloved sleuth facing a brew of community troubles—as her bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morphs into a trendy haven for yuppies—and an old flame.
Cleaning lady turned sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her hometown be transformed—and just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix.
When the young owner of a microbrewery looking to score prime real estate turns up dead, neighborhood local Wuvvy—an aging flower child and the brewster’s biggest foe—becomes the prime suspect. Digging for evidence to clear Wuvvy, Callahan isn’t prepared for the succulent secrets she finds, nor the shocking truths that force her to reassess old friendships and an old love.
The Callahan Garrity novels can be read in any order, but the full series includes:
Every Crooked Nanny To Live and Die in Dixie Homemade Sin Happy Never After Heart Trouble Strange Brew Midnight Clear Irish Eyes
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Callahan Garrity, a former Atlanta cop and now a housecleaning entrepreneur and PI, stars in her sixth appearance (after Heart Trouble, 1996), a riveting adventure that begins on a storm-tossed Halloween. After a lethal tornado blows through town on the biggest party night of the year at a local bar in a rapidly gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood, Callahan finds the body of microbrewery owner-manager Jackson Poole in the building he had just bought and was in the process of renovating. An angry woman called Wuvvy, an aging hippie whom Poole evicted when he bought the building, is missing--and presumed by the police to be Poole's killer. Wuvvy, who was once convicted of another murder charge, telephones Callahan, asking her to reclaim her meager belongings and to tell the police she's innocent. Callahan agrees to try to help, but then Wuvvy's body is found in her van, an apparent suicide. The police are happy to close the case at that point, but Callahan is suspicious because so many niggling details are left hanging; so she willingly agrees to work for Poole's lover to find out the whole story behind his death. While keeping track of her flighty mother, her cleaning crew and her lover, Mac, Callahan pursues the mystery into Poole's and Wuvvy's past and unearths unwholesome secrets of another family. Author tour.
