Bishop got up, tucked his bar towel in the back pocket of his saggy black jeans. “Hell. Who knows anybody?”
Acknowledgments
The author gratefully thanks those who doled out advice, comfort, or sustenance during the hatching of this book, including Major M. G. Lloyd of the Atlanta Police Department, W. Albert Oetgen, Moira Eileen Drennan, Eamon Dolan, and Eileen Dreyer. In addition, thanks are due the Mahaffey family of Avondale Estates, Georgia, who provided me with the perfect writer’s retreat. Lastly, thanks are due the 170 American police officers who in 1998 lost their lives in the line of duty. Their bravery and sacrifices are not forgotten.
Praise for Irish Eyes
“An entertaining, suspenseful romp. The plot zips along, but not too fast to blur the exceptional characters. Trocheck’s obvious firsthand knowledge of Atlanta makes her descriptions of the city shine with realism. Evanovich fans will appreciate some similarities, but Trocheck’s humor is drier.”
Booklist
“Trocheck skillfully blends family, generational, ethnic, racial, medical and criminal conflicts into her Irish stew. Her Garrity is an appealing heroine, hard-working and principled, while Bucky is just one of many well-drawn members of the community of family and friends for whom she gives her all in this satisfying tale.”
Publishers Weekly
“A dark tragedy of betrayal and corruption…. I highly recommend it.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Original and suspenseful … Irish Eyes is the best of the bunch.”
The Snooper
MIDNIGHT CLEAR
“A five-star read…. Long before Tom Wolfe burned Atlanta in A Man in Full, Kathy Hogan Trocheck was building believable fictional landscapes of the city in her Callahan Garrity mysteries.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Trocheck never fails to please.”
Tulsa World
“Will make you laugh, make you cry, make you mad, and make you wonder right up until the very last page…. Trocheck’s characterization is the real strength of her books: She gives us full-dimensional human beings instead of cardboard caricatures.”
Boston Globe
“Trocheck’s writing is typically breezy and buoyant.”
Orlando Sun-Sentinel
STRANGE BREW
“As Strange Brew proves, there’s nothing strange about Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s growing reputation. Her writing here is just as flip, just as New South sassy as ever, but underneath is a deepening compassion that wisely gives even her modern-day devils their due.”
Margaret Maron
“Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s cleverly plotted puzzlers are a gift.”
Orlando Sun-Sentinel
“A tidy mystery with … polished writing and industrial-strength suspense.”
Sue Grafton
“A riveting adventure.”
Publishers Weekly
HEART TROUBLE
“Trocheck has an eye for the Southern icon, an ear for the musically Georgian phrase, and an aptitude for multidimensional characters.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A fast-paced, highly entertaining caper.”
Louisville Courier-Journal
“Excellent reading.”
Toronto Star
HAPPY NEVER AFTER
“Callahan and her cohort of continuing characters (her mom, Edna; the ancient cleaning ladies Baby and Sister) are great company. If Happy Never After were a song, we’d all be dancing in the streets.”
San Jose Mercury News
HOMEMADE SIN
“The prose is tart and lively, the storytelling swift-paced, and the large cast and multiple plot lines deftly handled.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TO LIVE & DIE IN DIXIE
“A felonious assault on the reader’s funny bone, a madcap mix of humor and homicide…. Callahan Garrity is the best character to come out of Atlanta since Scarlett O’Hara.”
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
EVERY CROOKED NANNY
“A clever, colorful page-turner, not to be missed…. High-caliber.”
Publishers Weekly
“A breezy debut.”
New York Times Book Review
Also by the Author
FEATURING CALLAHAN GARRITY
MIDNIGHT CLEAR
STRANGE BREW
HEART TROUBLE
HAPPY NEVER AFTER
HOMEMADE SIN
TO LIVE AND DIE IN DIXIE
EVERY CROOKED NANNY
Featuring Truman Kicklighter
CRASH COURSE
LICKETY-SPLIT
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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