Kathy Hogan Trocheck

After ten years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different, Callahan 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 jewelry, silver, and a few rather sensitive real estate documents. Before she knows it, the meticulous Callahan is up to her elbows in a case involving illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, long-distance scams, and a dead body. Now she has to roll up her sleeves and start some industrial strength sleuthing to solve -- and survive -- this mess.

Every Crooked Nanny

From her time on the Atlanta police force, Callahan Garrity, house cleaner and private investigator extraordinaire, has excelled at mopping up messes -- of all kinds. But she has no idea what she's getting into when she agrees to work for infamous antiques dealer Elliot Littlefield. The first day on the job she and her crew discover the bloodied body of a young woman in a bedroom -- and are soon on the trail of a priceless Civil War diary stolen by the killer. As if two crimes aren't enough, deadly serious collectors, right-wing radicals, and impulsive teenagers make the case even more difficult to tidy up ... and more dangerous.

To Live & Die in Dixie

"Truman Kicklighter is a cool old dude." - St. Petersburg Times Kathy Hogan Trocheck, whose Callahan Garrity mysteries gathered huge acclaim, offers up a wryly-observed, richly detailed landscape of faded Floridian glory peopled with crackers and hackers, holy rollers and small-time gangsters, snowbirds and more. At the center of it all is Truman Kicklighter himself, who approaches the trials and little pleasures of retirement with an utterly infectious mix of sentiment and cynicism.

A Truman Kicklighter Mystery

Lickety-Split

Cleaning lady-turned-sleuth Callahan Garrity investigates when Whitney Dobbs, the drunken ex-wife of a prominent cardiologist, who gets away with running over a little girl in the park, is gunned down while doing her community service. Reissue.

Heart Trouble

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 hellbent to find the culprit. It's notthat she doesn't trust the Atlanta PD. She just knows that her suburbanite cousin's death is too strange to be accidental. Callahan's search takes her on a convoluted trail from Patti's priest, who may have provided more than spiritual counsel, through Atlanta's inner city and into the shady deals of her cousin's newly prosperous husband. Yet, as the pieces start to fall into place, Callahan faces an even bigger challenge -- staying alive.

Homemade Sin

The winds of change are blowing, bringing gentrification to Callahan Garrity's funky Atlanta neighborhood. Though it probably won't harm her House Mouse housecleaning service, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. And when the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovered in the aftermath of a furious Halloween gale, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business. A former cop, Callahan isn't as quick to condemn a colorful local character as some law officers still on the force. But her investigative zeal is stirring up secrets that are forcing her to reassess old friendships and a one-time love -- and is brewing up more lethal trouble than Callahan and her "mice" can safely swallow.

Strange Brew

Since retiring from the Atlanta Police Department, Callahan Garrity is really cleaning up with her House Mouse housecleaning company -- especially since she added"crime investigation" to the list of services offered. Callahan agrees to locate the missing member of the popular '60s girl group, the VelvetTeens, and she doesn't have to search long. Deloras Carter, the a.w.o.l. singer, is found passed out drunk by a swimming pool near the dead body of the trio's former producer. The smoking gun in Deloras's hand suggests that the VelvetTeens won't be reuniting for a comeback tour anytime in the near future ... unless Callahan and her "Mice" can spotlight -- and survive -- a different killer act.

Happy Never After

When Callahan's good friend Bucky is shot during a liquor store robbery and later accused of being an accomplice in the crime, she sets out to prove his innocence and clear his name.

A Callahan Garrity Mystery

Irish Eyes

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

Following her sensational debut in Every Crooked Nanny, housecleaner and occasional P.I. Callahan Garrity uncovers some deadly messes in an Atlanta mansion, including a bloody body in the bedroom. "Memorable Southern personalities and on-target dialogue lift this appealing whodunit well above the norm".--Publishers Weekly.

To Live and Die in Dixie

Hired to clean the mansion of Otto Arnsdorfer, Callahan and her eccentric employees discover a bust of Hitler in the study and a dead coed in the master bedroom. By the author of Every Crooked Nanny. National ad/promo.

Struggling to make ends meet during his senior years, ex-AP reporter Truman Kicklighter becomes involved in an investigation in which his friend, an Alzheimer's patient, is accused of murdering a successful gambler

Kathy Hogan Trocheck

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