Lickety-Split [Hardcover]

KATHY HOGAN TROCHECK (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Harper Collins; Stated First Edition edition (1996)
• ASIN: B000OP4HUA
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,555,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kathy Hogan Trocheck has published 17 novels, 10 critically-acclaimed mysteries under her own name and seven other bestselling novels writing as Mary Kay Andrews.

A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, Trocheck earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1976. She started her professional journalism career in Savannah, Georgia, where she covered the real-life murder trials which were the basis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She left journalism after a ten-year stint as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Her first book, Every Crooked Nanny, featuring a clever, snoopy housecleaner named Callahan Garrity, appeared in 1992. It was followed by seven other Garrity novels including To Live and Die in Dixie (1993), Homemade Sin (1994), Happy Never After (1995), Heart Trouble (1996), Strange Brew (1997), Midnight Clear (1998), and Irish Eyes (2000). The two Truman Kicklighter novels were Lickety Split (1996) and Crash Course (1997).

The first novel to be published under the name Mary Kay Andrews was Savannah Blues (2002). It was followed by Little Bitty Lies (2003); Hissy Fit (2004); the New York Times bestseller, Savannah Breeze (2006); the New York Times bestseller, Blue Christmas (2007); Deep Dish (2008); and the New York Times bestseller, The Fixer Upper (2009).

Her mysteries have been nominated for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Macavity Awards.

As a lifelong "junker" the author claims to know the location of every promising thrift store, flea market, and junkpile in the southeastern United States, plus many parts of Ohio.

She is a frequent lecturer and writing teacher at workshops including Emory University, The University of Georgia's Harriet Austin Writer's Workshop, the Tennessee Mountain Writer's Workshop, and the Antioch Writer's Workshop. Her mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards.

Married to her high school sweetheart, she is the mother of two grown children and a proud grandmother. After a brief hiatus in Raleigh, NC, she and her husband moved back to their old neighborhood in Atlanta, where they live in a restored 1926 Craftsman bungalow. She divides her time between Atlanta and her restored beach cottage on Tybee Island, GA.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lickety Splitnot her best charater, August 4, 2009

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Marsha Bennett (Franklin, TN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lickety-Split (Mass Market Paperback)

I don't know if she got tired of Callahn Garrity character or what...but this character is just a stiff...I wish that she would go back to her Callahan Garrity series as the characters in those books are just everyday joes, trying to do the best that they can do...like the rest of us...If she were to write another Callahan Garrity book,I would be the first in line to purchase it....
Marsha
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Florida Geriatricks, September 21, 2001

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D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lickety-Split: A Truman Kicklighter Mystery (Hardcover)

Some interesting stuff about dog racing, although Trocheck does not sound an enthusiast for the sport. Poverty-stricken retired journalist Truman Kicklighter and nineteen year old waitress Jackleen are great characters, and so are some of the others (although a few stereotypes).My problem was with the plot. The central idea of a computer program so certain to produce wins at the dog races that three murders are committed for it was implausible. I was not even sure if this was the central plot. An Alzheimer victim is falsely accused of murder. Kicklighter is afraid of being evicted from his SRO hotel. His daughter is dating a cop. His grandson is kidnapped. A fake evangelist is swindling elderly victims. All these sub-plots are stitched together by coincidences and the action is punctuated by gunplay.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to par., November 29, 2011

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JLRRAD "kindle addict" (usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lickety-Split (Truman Kicklighter Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)

I have read most of this author's books and was very disappointed in this one. It fell way short of her usual work. Her normal flow from character and places was to choppy and not as smooth as her other work. I had to continually go back and figure out where I was.