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Summary: Can't get enough of Savanah
Review: and we are meeting more of her kick-in-the-head family. Of course, Dirk is there with his usual baggage and Dirk and Savannah's relationship continues to dazzle me. This is a good story and it is nice to have those ole cravings again! Love that Godiva chocolate -- but forget the grits and cream gravy.
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Summary: Sour Grapes
Review: Be prepared to have sudden cravings for burgers, fires and onion rings while reading this delightful mystery! Savannah Reid, private detective extraodinaire is back and her latest outing involves providing security at the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant. Savanah believes that this job will be smooth sailing -- afterall all she has to do is make sure that the contestants refrain from pulling each other's hair out over a can of hair spray. As usual things do not work out according to her expectations. To begin her kid sister, Atlanta, appears to be a participant in the pageant and she also seems to have lost alot of weight -- perhaps too much weight. Savannah is concerned for Atlanta's health, but even as she promises herself to do something about Atlanta, the most obnoxious contestant turns up dead. Who would want to kill a beauty contest participant? Savannah delves into the ins and outs of pageant life, hoping to nab a killer before he or she can strike again, and to keep Atlanta from harm.This series featuring Savannah Reid, a southern transplant now living and working in California, is a lot of fun. And this is mostly because of the principal character -- Savannah. She's funny, compassionate, warm and really feisty. Her tongue in cheek asides, whether she's commenting about beauty pageants or certain characters -- friends or suspects -- are what really makes this series work. And while it was rather easy to figure out who the murderer was in this particular mystery, I enjoyed the novel nonetheless mainly because of Savannah's quick witted quips. An enjoyable read.
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Summary: Excellent beach book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and couldn't wait to get home every day to get back to it. I love Savannah in all her overweight glory, and the banter between her and her cop friend is terrific. Her whole cast of characters is very enjoyable. I look forward to reading the whole series.
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Summary: Excellent beach book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and couldn't wait to get home every day to get back to it. I love Savannah in all her overweight glory, and the banter between her and her cop friend is terrific. Her whole cast of characters is very enjoyable. I look forward to reading the whole series.
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Summary: Snappy dialogue moves story along smartly
Review: In this, the sixth of the Savannah Reid mystery series, we find Savannah with double trouble: find the person who is killing off beauty pageant contestants and help her younger sister, Atlanta, understand that no pageant is worth starving oneself for. Of the two, solving the murder mystery may turn out to be the easiest. Once again, Savannah is joined by Tammy, Ryan Stone, John Gibson and Dirk Coulter (aka Fart Face) as the investigation turns up an abundance of suspects in the first murder and virtually none in the second. Many people wished Barbie Matthews but which one acted on that wish? As nasty as the murders are, Savannah is faced with an even more worrisome problem: it seems sister Atlanta will stop at nothing to attain what she believes is beauty perfection. With a flair for snappy dialogue and a story that moves along smartly [and intelligently], the author again gives the reader a book to sink one's teeth into and from the blurb on the dustcover, a 7th Savannah Reid mystery is in the works.
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Summary: A delightful character driven mystery
Review: Mrs. Reid loved Georgia so much she named each of her daughters after a city in the Peach State. Savannah Reid, the oldest child, moved to California, where she joined the San Carmelita police force. Unable to abide by the mountains of regulations, she left to open up her own private investigative firm. Although clients seem rare, Savannah is happy with her work. Ms. Reid's latest job is security guard at the Miss Gold Coast beauty pageant, a piece of cake assignment. However, Savannah reassesses her initial opinion when one the contestants, Barbie Matthews, vanishes. Someone abducted and killed Barbie. To make matters worse yet personal, Savannah's sister Atlanta was Barbie's roommate and everyone knows the two women loathed one another. Not that Atlanta was alone since everyone detested the nasty victim. Still, Savannah and her crew know they must keep the participants safe from a killer. The tragedy side of entering children in beauty pageants is brought home in SOUR GRAPES, a mystery that bitterly satirizes the practice as almost unholy. The story line seamlessly merges a social message inside a strong who-done-it so the reader is educated while being entertained. G.A. McKevett uses humor to lighten a tense plot and making her characters seem even more human, especially the full figured and proud of it Savannah. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: She's Back!
Review: Once again McKevett has made you yearn for more Savannah! Everything is here for a great read - Dirk, Granny Reid, the chocolate, the suspense. This one took me a little longer to figure out but was well worth the wait. The inclusion of baby sister (who REALLY needs a good butt kick) brings more of Savannah's family in the picutre to round out an already wonderful character. The only problem I found with the book was knowing when I turned the last page it would be forever before Savannah was back again.
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Summary: Plotting is better; jokes are repeated
Review: Savannah Reid, the hyperphagic Georgian female PI is hired as a security guard for a beauty pageant staged at a California winery. Two of the contestants are murdered. Savannah's empty-headed sister turns up with anorexia nervosa. As usual in this series the sub-plot is better than the main plot, although this one is better than her previous ones as a murder mystery. She moves the story along with clunky prose like "the plan she had crafted so carefully was beginning to unfold." Some of the dialog is good but then you get stuff like
"'Ah Savannah, me darlin' he called out in his delightful Irish brogue ' tis a sight for there sore eyes ye are, love'"
By now some of the jokes are getting repetitious, such as Dirk's stinginess and Dr Liu's PMS chocolate craving, but I don't suppose that matters if you are new to the series.
All is forgiven, however, for the sake of the fully drawn and well-characterized heroine with her cats, her siblings, her grandmother, her attitude problem, her ambivalence towards men, and above all, her food.
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Summary: More sibling character development than most...
Review: This time, Savannah Reid is in the middle of a beauty pageant in Sour Grapes. Savannah's been asked by a friend to provide security for a teen beauty pageant at a posh winery. She takes the job, thinking this will be some of the easiest money she's made in awhile. But one of her sisters shows up nearly unannounced to compete, and one of the contestants turns up missing (and is later found dead). Savannah now has to figure out if the death was a murder or a suicide, while trying to also keep her sister safe if there's foul play going on... Pretty good plot line with the usual number of twists and turns along the way. Of all the Savannah Reid novels I've read to date, this one probably has more character development of a sibling than any other. The story also touches on accepting oneself without trying to fit into society's mold, when Savannah finds out her sister is taking laxatives to maintain a already low weight. Still enjoying the series...
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Summary: More sibling character development than most...
Review: This time, Savannah Reid is in the middle of a beauty pageant in Sour Grapes. Savannah's been asked by a friend to provide security for a teen beauty pageant at a posh winery. She takes the job, thinking this will be some of the easiest money she's made in awhile. But one of her sisters shows up nearly unannounced to compete, and one of the contestants turns up missing (and is later found dead). Savannah now has to figure out if the death was a murder or a suicide, while trying to also keep her sister safe if there's foul play going on... Pretty good plot line with the usual number of twists and turns along the way. Of all the Savannah Reid novels I've read to date, this one probably has more character development of a sibling than any other. The story also touches on accepting oneself without trying to fit into society's mold, when Savannah finds out her sister is taking laxatives to maintain a already low weight. Still enjoying the series...
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