The Good Girl's Guide to Murder : A Debutante Dropout Mystery

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely wonderful.
Review: Andrea Blevins Kendricks, the debutante dropout daughter of Cissy Blevins Kendricks, has just found herself in the middle of another mystery. This one involves Marilee Mabry, a nasty Martha Stewart type, who makes everyone stand on end with just the sound of her voice.

Now that Marilee's show is going national, everyone seems to be in her line of fire. But when things start going array, Andy's mind starts racing. Will she be able to figure out who is behind the disasters before the next one gets someone killed?

***** Absolutely wonderful! Andy is so witty and charming. You cannot help but fall in love with her and her eccentric mother. Way to go Susan McBride! Highly recommended! *****

Rating:
Summary: A terrific satirical investigative tale
Review: In Dallas, Martha Stewart clone Marilee Mabry, about to be launched on an unsuspecting American public, reflects how she now knows how her idol felt when she rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Andrea Kendricks knows she has one more reason to strangle her elitist mother, Cissy, who insisted her daughter attend her friend Marilee's celebratory party. Andrea wants no part of her mother's scene and would prefer to avoid this bow to the domestic queen event; she would prefer rush-hour on the LBJ

At the gala at the Sweet Life's Studio, a fire breaks out. During the chaos, Andy finds a seemingly comatose Kendall, Marilee's daughter, lying on the floor. When the studio cools down, a body is found. Other incidents follow. While Mother has no room on her social calendar for Marilee's troubles, Andy investigates into who wants to destroy their family friend.

THE GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER is a terrific satirical investigative tale that readers will fully enjoy due to the relationship between Mother and Debutante Dropout daughter as Andy is anything but a chip off the old block. Andy is a wonderful protagonist still struggling to cope with a perfectionist mother, who feels her only child is a let down as women should not be sleuthing when they need to insure their nails, hair, and pumps are correct. Marilee is a trip as her pompous attitude comes across that her coronation should have happened already. Though the culprit and the motive seem obvious, fans will still not be sure who the perpetrator is until the very end. What makes this novel and its predecessor so good is the BLUE BLOOD detective Andy.

Harriet Klausner


Rating:
Summary: waiting for death
Review: This was definitely not worth waiting for. The actual murder took place almost at the end of the book and the mystery was there, but it's what went before that gave me a problem. You get flashbacks and what I found ok in the first book, Andrea's thoughts about her relationship with her mother got old fast. Anyway, you get a lot of discussion with a bunch of people and at the end, you thank god that this was not a hardcover.