The Homewreckers - Book Review

The Home Wreckers by Mary Kay Andrews

Hattie is a young widow who works with her father-in-law buying an flipping historic homes. She enjoys working with her family and her best friend and doing what she loves. When a television producer approaches Hattie about being on a home renovation show, she wants to say no, but she has sunk her savings into a home and against her better judgment says yes. When Hattie finds herself right in the middle of a mystery, a designer who wants to cut corners, and a television producer that will stop at nothing to get his show, Hattie may have bitten off more than she can chew.

I am a huge fan of Mary Kay  Andrews and this book was no exception. It was cleverly written; the characters were diverse, and they all had interesting back stories. The element of a mystery was an added bonus to an already fabulous novel, and one that I loved. I was also kept wondering just who Hattie’s love interest would be, which was an unexpected surprise. The book was an easy read, but it also keeps you guessing which to me is the perfect recipe for a great book. St. Martin’s Press kindly gifted me this book in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion. A perfect five star read for summer friends.

MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels (including Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Christmas Bliss; Ladies' Night; Spring Fever; and Summer Rental, all from St. Martin's Press, as well as Savannah Breeze; Blue Christmas; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues, all Harper Collins), 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 (go Dawgs!). 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, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, 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.

Thank you so much for stopping by the farmhouse. Lynn

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