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    To Live and Die in Dixie
    To Live and Die in Dixie
    To Live and Die in Dixie
    Audiobook9 hours

    To Live and Die in Dixie

    Written by Mary Kay Andrews

    Narrated by Hillary Huber

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Bright and sassy.” — New York Times Book Review

    The second entry in the thoroughly original and witty series about Callahan Garrity in which the cleaning lady cum sleuth runs afoul of right-wing radicals and a dangerous collector when she’s hired to find the valuable and controversial diary of a Civil War madam.

    Former Atlanta police officer Callahan is known for scrubbing all kinds of muck, but she has no idea what she’s getting herself into when she is hired by Elliott Littlefield, a notorious Atlanta antiques dealer.

    Right from the start, Callahan’s job turns into a lively quest to find a priceless Civil War diary penned by an infamous madam. Soon Callahan and her team become entangled with a motley group of Civil War collectors, right-wing extremists, and nosy teens, making the case messier and tougher to clean.

    The witty Callahan Garrity mysteries by Mary Kay Andrews always entertain and delight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9780062278210
    To Live and Die in Dixie
    Author

    Mary Kay Andrews

    Mary Kay Andrews is The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Cookbook and more than twenty novels, including The Weekenders, Ladies' Night, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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    • 3/5
      I listened to this book because I wanted to do some crafts and hear an entertaining story. In the past I have found this author delivers on the entertainment. Her writing is full of humor. I really enjoyed the characters in this story. The tone of the story was smooth so it flowed from one situation to another. I did not agree with all the cuss words in the story or the summary ending of the story.

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    • 3/5
      Julia Callahan Garrity is a former policewoman, now the owner of a cleaning service called House Mouse, and a part time private detective. She lives with her rather caustic, chain-smoking mother, Edna, and has a motley bunch of employees she sends out in the crisply starched bright pink House Mouse smocks, armed with cleaning supplies to keep Atlanta clean.When the girls are hired to do a major cleaning of one of the old Victorian mansions known as Eagle's Keep, they have only 6 hours to scrub the three story filthy antique filled place before the owner hosts a hoity-toity party. Elliot Littlefield was tried and convicted of murder over 20 years ago and got out of it when his conviction was overturned on a technicality. He's back in Atlanta, running a very lucrative antique business at Eagle's Keep and disgusting his neighbors on a regular basis. While Callahan views her new employer with distaste, his money spends the same as everybody else's so she agrees to take the job. When the cleaning crew discover the bloody body of a teenaged girl on the third floor, all bets are off and the party is cancelled. But Littlefield has a good alibi and claims there has also been a burglary with numerous Civil War pieces, including the priceless diary of an Atlanta wartime whore. He hires Callahan to find those missing items and it isn't very long before she is in way over her head
    • 3/5
      Entertaining and Southern as the Callahan mother-daughter team – returns full of mischief and humor as her cleaning crew (turned detective) is on the trail of a stolen Civil War diary. With collectors, radicals, teens, southern belles, shabby developers, and crimes to solve. Did not enjoy this one as much as the others in the series as a light mystery and listened to audio --Huber, the narrator is always good for a laugh.
    • 4/5
      it's an interesting experience, reading mysteries set in 1992/ish. This book and the previous one both brush upon the idea of racism, but they do so from a time and place that is alien to me, and I think less concerned with equality than now. likewise, this book's subplot deals with a girl who has bulimia, but seems to assume less familiarity with the topic than I think people have now.
    • 2/5
      I really like Mary Kay Andrews books, but I was disappointed in this one. I literally just finished listening to Midnight in the Garden and Good and Evil when I started this book. The numerous similarities are too many to be considered flattering or coincidental. From Nazi flags to disrupt movies to a main character who is an antique dealer to a rival of that character who is a neighbor and restores homes for the poor using a revolving fund. I know the premise is different as is the character appeal, however, I don't think it's enough to set this book far enough apart from John Berendt's amazing novel.
    • 3/5
      Former Atlanta police officer Callaghan Garrity runs The House Mouse, a professional maid service, and also dabbles in private investigation. A new client has an emergency need for a thorough cleaning; Elliot Littlefield owns Eagle’s Keep, one of Atlanta’s most elegant old mansions and his housekeeper has quit the day before a major party. The team arrives to complete disarray, and discovers a body in an upstairs bedroom. But this isn’t the first time a young woman has met her death at Eagle’s Keep…

      This is a fast-paced, well-plotted cozy mystery. I like Callaghan – she’s intelligent, resourceful, strong, and professional. Some of her crew members are a little too eccentric to be believable, but it’s all in good fun. I did figure out the murderer the minute that character was introduced, but that was okay because I still liked watching how Trochek developed the plot.
    • 4/5
      I found this cozy mystery entertaining and we'll paced. Kept me interested all the way.