Every Crooked Nanny (U) - Hardcover

Trocheck, Kathy Hogan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708937489 ISBN 13: 9780708937488

Publisher: Ulverscroft, 1997

Synopsis

'Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing.' - SUE GRAFTON 'A irresistible story... Well-told and absorbing.' - ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Former Atlanta cop Callahan Garrity is beginning to think that buying a housecleaning business was a bad idea when the illness of her 'mice' means that she has to clean the palatial Beemish residence alone - especially when the lady of the house, Lilah Rose, turns out to be an old college pal. But Lilah Rose has more than cleaning on her mind - their young nanny has disappeared along with jewellery, silver and sensitive documents. Illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, a dead body... It's going to require some industrial-strength sleuthing on Callahan's part if she wants to solve - and survive - this case.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels, most recently The Weekenders, as well as 10 critically acclaimed mysteries. A former reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Cloying debut of ex-Atlanta cop turned part-time p.i. Callahan Garrity, who, with her wisecracking, three-pack-a-day mom, Edna Mae, also runs House Mouse, a cleaning business that's short on help, which means that Callahan arrives to tidy the Beamish residence just as Kristee, the nanny, is discovered missing--along with jewels, furs, rare coins, and important business papers. Callahan also discovers that the wayward Kristee was juggling three romances, had lied about her Mormon background, was blackmailing the philandering Bo Beamish about a shady real-estate deal he'd hustled, and, as a result of all this--or some of it--is now lying dead in the fur vault at Rich's department store. Whodunit? The House Mouse maids reconnoiter various homes, while the police arrest the wrong suspect. Meanwhile, Callahan makes lots of calls to Utah; Edna Mae pays the killer a visit; and the sinners are separated from the Church of the Latter-day Saints. Overly cute, with (predictably) the cleanup crews finding all the clues. And heavy-handed attempts at social satire, plus leaden repartee between Callahan and her mom and cop friends, don't help. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0708937489
• ISBN 13: 9780708937488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544