"Blue Christmas"--Beloved author Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characters from "Savannah Blues" and "Savannah Breeze" (Weezie and Bebe Mysteries Series) for a little Southern cheer--recipes too!

 

Blue Christmas

New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews's rollicking Christmas tale featuring the beloved characters from Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze and holiday recipes! 

It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest-which she intends to win. She throws herself into putting up a Graceland/Blue Christmas motif, with lots of tinsel, an aluminum tree, and all kinds of tacky retro stuff. The project takes up so much time that Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's sure she's one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner. But suddenly, things go missing from Weezie's display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.

Still, Weezie has high hopes for the holiday-maybe in the form of an engagement ring from her chef boyfriend. But Daniel, always moody at the holidays, seems more distant than usual.

Throw in Weezie's decidedly odd family, a 1950s Christmas tree pin, and even a little help from the King himself, and maybe there will be a pocketful of miracles for Weezie this Christmas eve.

Reviews

 

“A fun and festive read.” -- Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)

“For the fun at heart, this is a must in the Christmas stocking.” -- Daytona Beach News-Journal

“Punchy prose and sparkling storylines. . . . She delivers holiday cheer that will leave you anything but blue.” -- BookPage

“Sometimes it takes a blue Christmas to bring out true holiday cheer.” -- Southern Living

“A cute story with a lot of Southern charm.” -- Miami Herald

“A perfect addition to the author’s Savannah series, and it will certainly have readers eager for more of Andrews’ wonderful prose.” -- Romantic Times

“Appealing character-driven holiday fare.” -- Kirkus Reviews

“Andrews nails idiosyncratic Southern charm and teases out a touching denouement.” -- Publishers Weekly

“Mary Kay Andrews, the author of so-much-fun-to-read-it-must-be-criminal bestsellers Savannah Breeze and Hissy Fit, dishes up another Southern charmer with Blue Christmas. . . . There is something downright addictive in her punchy prose and sparkling storylines. Here, she delivers holiday cheer that will leave you anything but blue.” -- BookPage

“A wonderful book, filled with vivid descriptions of Christmas scenes.  . . . Charming.  . . . This book about compassion, Christmas, and antiques shines as a must-read come holiday time.” -- Roanoke Times

“A funny, funky Christmas story with quirky Southern characters, great descriptions of kitschy objects, a celebration of tradition, and a bit of suspense.” -- Booklist

Weezie and Bebe Mysteries Series

Eloise “Weezie” Foley, a recently divorced antique dealer, and BeBe Loudermilk, a triple-divorced restaurant owner, in Savannah, Georgia.

 

Savannah Blues

 

 

 

Savannah Breeze

 

 

 

 Christmas Bliss

 

 

MARY KAY ANDREWS

 

 

MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 28 novels (including The Newcomer; Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental; The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.

A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.

Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by twelve more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese.

She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in two restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn and Ebbtide—both named after fictional places in Mary Kay’s novels, and both available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. In between cooking, spoiling her grandkids, and plotting her next novel, Mary Kay is an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses. 

http://www.marykayandrews.com