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Summary: We Need This Series To Continue
Review: I've read all of the Callahan Garrity books.....twice! I love the charachters in them and the plot twists are all great. I am always unable to guess "who-done-it" and really don't want to put the books down while reading. This book was no exception.
This one was very entertaining and a great mystery. But, is it to be the last of the series? I sure do hope not. It ends in a way that could prove to be the last; but there are so many more story lines that can come later. I've been unable to find a web site for Mrs Trocheck, but hope someone will forward this to her. Anyone who loves mysteries that are also a bit light-hearted will love the series. Each book is wonderful by itself. It is the recurring characters in them that realy gave me a lot of enjoyment. This was no exception; and will hold your attention from the very beginning.
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Summary: Fantastic, enjoyable , but.........
Review: 5 for overall book, 1 for circumstances/results. Kathy Hogan Trocheck is one of my favorite writers and this latest book was very good with the mystery, the suspense and the comic adventures of Neva Jean, Baby and Sister. However, my personal opinion rating of the outcome is a 1 as you will understand when you read the book. As in her past books, Kathy Trocheck doesn't really hold any punches with any of her main or semi-main characters. She writes things keeping true to real life, but in wanting to escape into a book I don't like real life to get too close to the characters I have grown to like after a number of books. But that's just my opinion. Don't pass this one up by Kathy Trocheck. From book one she has proven you can be great and still get better.
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Summary: LOVED IT!!!Made me a fan!!
Review: Callahan Garrity is back with a vengence in this novel. After being dragged to a St. Pats day party thrown by an Irish Police Fraternal organization by her ex partner Bucky, she becomes a witness to his shooting, and is determined to find out who done it. She is convinced that the shooting has some connection to the Shamrock Society he so recently joined. Callahan begins to wonder how well she really knows Bucky, but is no less determined to find his assailant.The author writes a very taut, suspenseful mystery. The plot is full of twists and turns, and the employees of the House Mouse help out as usual. I just wish that the author would find someone other that one of Callahan's friends or relatives to use as a target, she's going to start to run out soon.
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Summary: Oh my, oh my
Review: Good reading but not hilarious. The first books in this series were great but this one felt rather dark. Reminds me of the Patricia Cornwell series when heroine became very depressed in later books. Would like to see a return to light-hearted detecting.
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Summary: Stephanie Plum is a lot funnier
Review: I liked the mystery, but the carry-over characters who are there for humor aren't as funny as Janet Evanovich's series of Stephanie Plum's relatives and co-workers. Still, I'd recommend Irish Eyes, at least as a substitute until the next Evanovitch mystery comes out.
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Summary: Oh my, oh my
Review: I was privileged to hear Kathy Hogan Trochek speak at the Raven Mystery Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas last year. She is a good speaker and an excellent author. Her characters are rich and interesting. A cleaning service makes for a good background for a private detective. Her knowledge of Atlanta and environs is enjoyable. There's always room for a holiday series. I look forward to the next in line and recommend the series to all mystery readers.
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Summary: Irish Eyes don't smile in this mystery
Review: I've always enjoyed the Callahan Garrity series, this being no
exception. This book, though, was more somber than the others, since
tragedy strikes a major character in this series. However, I wouldn't
compare her novels to Janet Evanovich...; Janet Evanovich has more of
a carefree, comic attitude in her novels, while Kathy Hogan Trocheck's
series has a more serious flair.... All in all, this was still a
high quality novel from an underrated author.
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Summary: Irish luck for Garrity, Trocheck
Review: There are all the usual reasons to like "Irish Eyes," the eighth Callahan Garrity mystery, and some new ones. Spunky sleuth and cleaning-service operator Garrity and her gaggle of Southern stereotype associates deal with life, love and death in Atlanta in their usual manners. And, as in most of author Kathy Hogan Trocheck's previous adventures, Garrity has to deal with the changing social and political landscape of a Southern megalopolis that is growing too fast for its own good. This time, ex-cop Garrity's former associate, Bucky Deavers, is shot in a liquor store while Garrity is waiting outside in the car after a St. Patrick's Day event. Soon after, the only witness to the shooting disappears with the security-camera videotape. The spin soon has Deavers, critically wounded in the hospital, as being a rogue, but Garrity doesn't buy it, and she typically won't let the matter drop. It leads her into a world of police corruption that leaves more dead bodies. Meanwhile, Mac, Garrity's significant other, is talking about moving to Nashville. He's fed up with the uncontrolled urban sprawl, and wants Callahan and her mother, Edna, to come along. And it is surprising who is the more stubborn of the two. For comic relief (and some fair gumshoe work of their own), Baby and Sister Easterbrooks return with priceless dialogue and antics. Neva Jean and Swannelle also provide moments in which it is difficult to keep reading through the laughter. Though the main character is the author's alter ego, Trocheck keeps Callahan honest and humble, usually through Edna and Mac. And Callahan, like everyone else, sometimes has to depend on luck to achieve her objectives. So if you are ready for the best dose yet of Trocheck-style humor and humidity, intrigue and insanity, read "Irish Eyes." It follows a trail well, and is obviously leading to some new ones.
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Summary: Average if best
Review: This plot driven farce, is wieghed down with banal dialogue that makes me cridge each time I saw any quotation marks. But, for a "mystery" novel, in which the outcome seems to be told to you from the beginning, it cannot be given a "1 Star" rating b/c that would be for a book that was trying to say something, and no effort is put forth in the words that are strew across the pages with the accuracity and grace of a granite boulder.
Rating:
Summary: Average if best
Review: This plot driven farce, is wieghed down with banal dialogue that makes me cridge each time I saw any quotation marks. But, for a "mystery" novel, in which the outcome seems to be told to you from the beginning, it cannot be given a "1 Star" rating b/c that would be for a book that was trying to say something, and no effort is put forth in the words that are strew across the pages with the accuracity and grace of a granite boulder.
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