Strange Brew: A Novel
Written by Mary Kay Andrews
Narrated by Hillary Huber
4.5/5
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“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 witha polished writing style and industrial strength suspense.” — Sue Grafton
The sixth book in the series finds Callahan Garrity facing a brew of community troubles - as her bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morphs into a trendy haven for yuppies - and an old flame.
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.
Mary Kay Andrews
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Suddenly by Barbara DelinskyThis book is about a medical practice with 4 doctors in Tucker, VT. They each have and share patients.One is preparing to adopt a baby but one days others learn of her death-sitting in her car in the closed garage. Others try to put the pieces together to solve her death.The baby arrives and Paige steps in but she doesn't want a child. Paige has a sexual mate that teaches at the girls academy. There are so many twists and turns to this book, it's fascinating reading about them all.The other people also have chapters of their own and the troubles they experience with the death, how it not only effects their medical practice but their personal lives.Didn't see this ending happening, wow!I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a good family drama book. It was set in a small town and was about the lives of of the doctors in a pediatric practice. A friend and partner,Mara commits suicide and sets off a chain of avents. The plot was good and kept my interest.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5nice past - time book.i enjoyed reading it .it has got all a complete package!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Change is coming to the funky Atlanta neighborhood where Callahan and her mother live. Bungalows like theirs are being snatched up and 'restored' and the local shopping district, Little Five Points, is changing, too. A wealthy co-op decides to open one of a chain of microbreweries in L5P, displacing an eccentric aging hippie known only to her neighbors as "Wuvvy" after evicting her small novelty store that's been a fixture on that corner for years. In the middle of a freak tornado that tears through urban Atlanta late on Halloween night, the young corporate rep is found murdered in the empty building and Wuvvy has disappeared. An eerie message from the old hippie is left on Callahan's answering machine just hours before her body is found inside her ancient van, an apparent suicide. A former cop, Callahan isn't as quick to condemn the colorful local character as her old colleagues on the force, and their eagerness to tie up all the loose ends in a neat bow doesn't sit well. Her investigative zeal is stirring up secrets that are forcing her to reassess old friendships while someone is desperately trying to keep her nose out of their business.I'm liking this series more and more. The characters are familiar by this time and the dialogue between them is witty and well written. This is a tale of sex, love, rock and roll, and sweet revenge delivered with flair. It gets a 4.5.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an awesome mystery (Callahan Garrity Mystery series) with lots of colorful and quirky characters – keeps you guessing all the way through the book. Voted for this book as the best mystery for 2013 Good Reads awards. If you love Mary Kay Andrews (which I do and have read all her books), try her older books (under the name of Kathy Hogan Trocheck) are now available as e-books.
This can be a standalone; however, you will want to read the other books in the the Callahan Garrity Mystery series as the characters are a riot (I have only read a few and trying to get to the others) on my to read list.
I loved the Atlanta references (as lived there most of my life) and Little Five Points (setting) is a trendy, funky cool area and fitting for this book.
This is a great book to read now in the Fall Season as the setting was Halloween with a mystery Callahan Garrity seeks to solve. She was a former Atlanta cop and now owns a house cleaning business (House Mouse) with her mother and other quirky funny characters. She takes on private detective jobs and this one is a big one which the cops cannot solve. Lots of twists and turns with some shocks along the way.
A body turns up on Halloween night (murder of a microbrewer) and Wuuvy (a hippie flower child who owns a shop in L5P is somehow connected. (will not spoil the rest) as too good! In the meantime, her mother (Edna) was robbed and she has formed a neighborhood group. (too funny as worked for a Coors Distributor in Atlanta years ago, as Marketing Director so could relate).
As the mystery develops more bodies are dying and takes them to a small South Georgia town where they meet some characters from the past who may know the real truth about the history of these culprits. Callahan never gives up and continues to uncover more of the puzzle
This book was full of Mary Kay’s humor and sass---full of mystery and thrills! I look forward to reading more of the Callahan Garrity Mysteries. Highly recommend! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the idyllic little town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a slower pace for everyone. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the lives of thirty-nine-year-old pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer and her colleagues. However when Mara O'Neill, Paige's medical partner and best friend since college, inexplicably takes her own life, the consequences of that one irrevocable act shatters Paige's peaceful life, and throws the lives of the three other doctors who practiced with her into absolute chaos. For Angie Bigelow, grieving Mara's death becomes the final straw in the disintegration of her once well-organized - and ostensibly happy - home and marriage. Peter Grace, whose relationship with Mara was much more complicated than he admits publicly, is left with a sense of desolation at her death. He has difficulty coping with his feelings of grief and feels a growing discontentment with life; a feeling which has its roots in his youth. Paige deals with her own feelings of loss and deep sadness by temporarily caring for Mara's newly-adopted baby daughter. As she slowly comes to terms with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in due time, she'll understand why Mara chose to end her life. And that her orderly life will eventually return. What Paige hadn't counted on were the unexpected pleasures that often come with change. In the wake of such a tragedy, Paige never realized that she would ultimately discover true meaning and purpose in her own life; including the touch of a man who offers Paige things she never thought she wanted. But before she can allow herself to fully embrace a future she never imagined, Paige must let go of the past and learn to trust her new found happiness. Overall, I very much enjoyed reading this book. It was a relatively quick read for me, and was very well-written. The story featured a wide variety of well-developed characters, and was written with a true understanding of the complexities of human nature and the intricacies of relationships. This wasn't necessarily my favorite book by Barbara Delinsky, but it certainly was well worth reading anyway. I give Suddenly an A!