Savannah Blues

Eloise “Weezie” Foley is a loud mouth heroine, with a very sassy outlook on life. When her marriage to Talmadge Evans the 3rd ends in divorce, she finds herself exiled to the carriage house, and his new fiancé Caroline DeSantos installed in the townhouse she had restored and decorated. An antiques ‘picker’, Weezie spends a lot of time searching through junk for treasures to restore. She’ll do almost anything to keep her mind off her strange family and its problems. When a body falls out of a cupboard, Weezie is in a place she shouldn’t be and ends up as a suspect. Underhanded deals, unauthorized transactions and Bebe Loudermilk make her life very interesting. Daniel Stipanek, an ex-boyfriend complicates her life in a nice way but also has secrets he doesn’t want revealed, but Weezie has other ideas.

SAVANNAH BLUES is a fascinating romp with enough sex, intrigue, vengeance, wit, and scandal to please most readers with a hard to solve murder in the mix. All these things come together with word pictures, of ancient oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. Add in Southern heat, hidden treasures, languid water ways and biting gnats. The plot weaves leisurely around an assortment of odd characters all with their own agenda. Food becomes almost a character in its own right, especially chocolate fudge ice-cream and crawfish. Stirred into this a dog called Jethro with a pivotal part as the madness of hot southern summers escalates. Every chapter brings yet another conflict, keeping the reader enmeshed in the story. With a hunk of a chef, a zany heroine and an equally delightful friend, and a finale that is also a little different.

August 2007