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Strange Brew Audiobook Summary

“Callahan Garrity mops up the scene in an Atlanta neighborhood where murder meets its match in this feisty, funny heroine. STRANGE BREW offers up a tidy mystery witha polished writing style and industrial strength suspense.” — Sue Grafton

The sixth book in the series finds Callahan Garrity facing a brew of community troubles – as her bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morphs into a trendy haven for yuppies – and an old flame.

Sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her hometown be transformed – and just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix.

When the young owner of a microbrewery looking to score prime real estate turns up dead, neighborhood local Wuvvy – an aging flower child and the brewster’s biggest foe – becomes the prime suspect. Digging for evidence to clear Wuvvy, Callahan isn’t prepared for the succulent secrets she finds, nor the shocking truths that force her to reassess old friendships and an old love.

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Strange Brew Audiobook Narrator

Hillary Huber is the narrator of Strange Brew audiobook that was written by Mary Kay Andrews

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and The Beach House Cookbook. A former reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

About the Author(s) of Strange Brew

Mary Kay Andrews is the author of Strange Brew

Strange Brew Full Details

Narrator Hillary Huber
Length 8 hours 28 minutes
Author Mary Kay Andrews
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 15, 2013
ISBN 9780062280510

Subjects

The publisher of the Strange Brew is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Strange Brew is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062280510.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Christine

March 20, 2018

Why did she have to end the series and move on to fluffy chick lit under the name Mary Kay Andrews?Booooo

Cora

August 27, 2022

Book 6 of the series and MKA did not disappoint once again.Callahan is at it again trying to find who killed the owner of the microbrewery in town and the crazy lady who no one understands.I must admit this one kept me wondering who could possibly have killed them but the end make so much sense.The characters are witty and bizarre but you cant help but get attached to them.

Tgordon

November 04, 2018

Lord lord it’s the south and is always the best! It’s a great book! Fun and full of southern fun!

Sue

March 09, 2020

I listened to this as an audio book and it was utterly charming. The reader was outstanding a setting the place and characters. I need to read things for just fun sometimes, and these mysteries are toward the top of the heap for just pure enjoyment--especially with this reader.

Ailleen

September 02, 2021

Enjoyed the read. Good story

Paul

January 10, 2022

This book was copyrighted in 1997 so it may be difficult to find, try e-bay or Amazon. It is well worth the effort. This is another mystery that is good enough for grandma and will keep everyone else happy.This is the sixth book in the series with Callahan Garrity, a former Atlanta policewomen, her mother, and the House Mouse cleaning crew. The mystery takes place in Atlanta so many places will be familiar to those living or those who have lived in the Atlanta area. The author will refer several times to L5P which refers to the Little Five Points area of Atlanta, which was the home to the hippie, yuppie, and downtrodden. One of the owners of a store is being evicted so that a up scale brewery can take its place. The brewery is called “The Blind Possum”, I checked it doesn’t exist. Wuvvy, who owns the store is found murdered and those associated with The Blind Possum are considered prime suspects. Wuvvy is also suspected of murdering an executive of The Blind Possum. Callahan takes on Wuvvy’s case and begins to find out facts about her and the murdered executive, but there is more to the story and a surprise murderer.

Tiffany

November 12, 2013

I'm working my way through the reissued Callahan Garrity series from Mary Kay Andrews. So far, Strange Brew was my favorite novel in the line up. This book finds the protagonist - a house cleaning service owner and former PI- in a precarious situation. As a brewing company moves into her neighborhood, one of the owners winds up murdered. Could it have been the previous tenant who was angry about being evicted that did him in? Inquiring minds want to know and Callahan is on the case!! In true form to the series, Mary Kay Andrews features many venues and places in the metro Atlanta are with great affection. Anyone familiar with the city will love her depiction of Atlanta, set in the 90s, when the book was originally written. I can't wait to read the next book in the series. They are all quick reads and great fun.

Erin L

September 16, 2016

Review of the audiobook.I like these books. As I get closer to the end of the series, I get a little sad that it's going to end for me soon (2 more books). I like the characters and the situations. This is probably more of a 4.5 than a 5, but darn it, I like this series.This book has Callahan investigating the murder of a new business in town when another business owner is accused of the crime. When the second business owner apparently commits suicide, the police declare the mystery solved. Callahan has questions so she continues to investigate, eventually getting hired to do so by the first business owner's girlfriend (yeah, ok, so that's confusing here but not confusing in the book).

Nadine

August 28, 2018

I have come to love Callahan Garrity and her House Mouse cleaning girls. I only have two more books in the series, and I am going to be so sad when I am done. I think I will be slowing my roll on these so I can come back to an old friend if I get in a rut any time soon. This one was fun, as it involved a brewery and some other places in the Little Five Points area that I remember and still exist today. I started to guess some of the mystery, but was still surprised at the very end. Just the way I like it.  Bottom Line: Such a fun cozy mystery series!!! Read it if that is your thing.

Sherri

October 26, 2018

I loved how the subject was the nascent brewing industry. Microbreweries are so common now. Many large companies have their own in house micro brewed brand. Blue Moon and Widmer Brothers are now national brands. The challenges of gentrification is going on twenty years later. People that lived in low cost housing, single room hotels, are displaced on to the streets.

Cheri

January 30, 2019

I picked this book up at a used book sale and it had been in my stack for a long time. Decided to read it now because I saw that the book was dedicated to Celestine Sibley, and I had just finished reading a wonderful collection of Sibley's holiday pieces. Strange Brew is a good, light reading mystery with some humor, a few twists and turns. I like the setting - the Little Five Points area of Atlanta, that was on the verge of gentrification when the book was written. I needed a little light reading at the time and recommend it for the same reason.

Shavona

December 03, 2021

This book #6 in this series and I am looking forward to book #7. The characters in this series are unique. I so enjoy how Hillary Huber reads the characters. Hillary is fabulous at changing character voices. Callahan Garrity is my hero. Smart and confident, she gets to the bottom of a murder investigation at a microbrewery. Callahan lives by her own rules, and she doesn't scare easily. She is determined to bring the killer to justice. Can't wait to read the next book in the series.

Nancy N. Phelan

August 06, 2022

SuspensefulThe heading fits what this book was all about, suspense. This book had me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who killed Jackson Poole and "Wuvvie" . Strange Brew was full of twist and turns I never saw coming. I have enjoyed reading the Callahan Garrity Mysteries, and I wish they would contine.

Reca

January 15, 2023

Another great book in the Callahan Garrity series. When she has a feeling the murder(s) aren’t as cut and dried as they seem, let the digging begin. As things unfold, there are the usual twists and turns that means you can’t put the book down.

Tricia

September 21, 2021

I love everything MKA writes! Great story and characters. The Callahan Garrity series has been excellent. A little mystery and a lot of fun with all the quirky characters! I hope I haven’t read them all!

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