***3,5***Over the years I've enjoyed the Callahan Garrity series and I’m a tiny bit sad that this is the last in the series. I heard that the author isn't planning on writing another one.What I like about this series is the contrast between the harsh, dark reality of the Atlanta streets and the l...
I am a fan of Mary Kay Andrews (Trocheck) and loved the Callahan Garrity series as read them all.This series features Truman Kicklighter, (in his golden years), widower and former AP reporter living in the Fountain of youth Residence Hotel in St. Petersburg, FL. He is trying to make ends meet, w...
On the whole, I think I liked this book. Callahan Garrity is an ex-policewoman who now owns and runs a cleaning service. She also does a little detecting on the side. The book is set in Atlanta, Georgia, and there are some chiches of the south that I'm not really sure about. Some are irritating ...
I tried to like this book. I really did. Unfortunately, I was never able to connect with the characters. It seemed like every time a character was told on good authority not to do something, they did the very thing they were told not to. And then the choice they did make was just plain stupid...
But he’d had to part with most of the cash his grandmother had given him to pay the back rent and get back into the apartment. And for what? Someone had been there already, trashed the place. The disk wasn’t there. He’d fucked up. Set up a meeting with the mob guy, Mikey, just assuming he’d find ...
My heart gave a small skip. “Is that Bridget’s car? The cops have been looking all over for it.” The car door creaked as she opened it and slid into the driver’s seat. My door made the same sound. I moved a pile of sneakers and books, and got in. “It was our car,” Jocelyn corrected me. “We shared...
“I parked it right here,” Jackie said, pointing to the curb where an ugly, bronze-colored Pontiac was now parked. “It was right here…” The mailman, his spindly white legs visible beneath his summer-uniform shorts, was half a block away, wheeling his three-legged canvas cart down the sidewalk, and...