Heart Trouble: A Callahan Garrity Mystery

by Kathy Hogan Trocheck and Mary Kay Andrews

Book Overview

Atlanta is temporarily distracted from its pre-Olympic frenzy by the sensational case of Whitney Dobbs, the boozy ex-wife of a prominent cardiologist who runs over a little girl in the park. The city is outraged when she gets off with only a misdemeanor charge. When Whitney is shot while doing her community service, cleaning lady/sleuth Callahan Garrity has reason to be suspicious.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060176385
• ISBN13: 9780060176389
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Great Series!

I love this series and it simply gets better and better. If you're new to this series, take advantage and begin at the beginning. The stories are interesting without being overly done or contrived. The characters are complex and welcomed visitors. Trocheck really has something here.

Doughnuts and crack

I came to this one after "Every Dead Nanny" and "Happy Never After" so for once I'm reading a series in the right order. I thought this was the best of the three. The plot is believable from beginning almost to the end (I never quite buy those heroine-save-in-the-nick-of-time scenes but they seem obligatory in this female private eye genre which is a descendant of romantic suspense). It unfolds piece by piece rather than being a series of interviews and the murderer is the kind of surprise that has you turning back pages and saying "why didn't I think of that?" Some great writing. I loved a scene where she describes a vivid temptation to buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts and then looks across the street and describes a crack-buying transaction.