Every Crooked Nanny (Callahan Garrity Mysteries) - Hardcover

Trocheck, Kathy Hogan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060179236 ISBN 13: 9780060179236

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992

Synopsis

Hired to track down Kristee Ewbanks, the nanny who has stolen jewelry, furs, and important files from her employers, housecleaner-turned-sleuth Callahan Garrity traces the nanny to a department store fur bin, where a case of burglary turns to murder.

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: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060179236
• ISBN 13: 9780060179236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286