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"Entertaining. . . . If you are up for a big helping of humor and heartbreak, insanity and intrigue, read Irish Eyes." — Orange Country Register

Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set.

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Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.

"Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself." — Sue Grafton

After ten years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, former cop Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But she soon finds herself right back in the middle of a mystery when a client's pretty, pious nineteen-year-old nanny is gone ... along with the

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"Callahan and her cohort of continuing characters...are great company...If Happy Never After were a song, we'd be dancing in the streets." — San Jose Mercury News

In the fourth installment of Andrews's acclaimed series about Callahan Garrity, Atlanta's most inquisitive cleaning lady, she sets out to prove the innocence of a rock idol of her childhood.

Callahan Garrity is a former Atlanta cop,

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Part-time sleuth and professional house cleaner Callahan Garrity is just congratulating herself on having everything under control for the holidays when her brother Brian, who she has not seen in over ten years, walks in and out of her life, leaving his two-year-old daughter and a murder charge in his wake.

Atlanta cleaning lady/private detective Callahan Garrity, the protagonist of the author's eight critically acclaimed mysteries, returns from a long hiatus in this short story to track down the source of a killer fruitcake—and in the process discovers that some forms of Christmas spirit really can be lethal.Also included with this short story is Mary Kay Andrews' personal recipe for a not-so-fatal fruitcake.

A former Atlanta policewoman and her all-female crew of cleaners are involved with political corruption and murder.

The city of Atlanta is stunned by the case of Whitney Dobbs, the boozy ex-wife of a doctor who runs over a little girl and gets off with community service. When she is killed, police say it was an accident, but cleaning lady Callahan Garrity thinks otherwise.

With a nose for crime and grime, Callahan Garrity has handled dirty killers on the streets as an Atlanta cop and on the job as a house cleaner. But she's always been able to keep her private life neatly separated from work -- until her cousin, Patti, is found dead. Exchanging her House Mouse cleaning uniform for a detective's cap, Callahan is hell-bent to find the culprit. It's not that she doesn't trust the Atlanta PD. She just knows that her suburbanite...