Savannah Breeze

By Mary Kay Andrews

"A sheer delight and will have readers laughing out loud by the second page." —Daytona Beach News-Journal

Southern manners, mint julips, cold-blooded larceny, and sweet revenge collide in this rollicking tale from the delightfully charming New York Times bestselling author of Hissy Fit and Savannah Blues

The Breeze Inn is a place where very classy Southern belle Bebe Loudermilk normally wouldn’t be caught dead. But a brief, disastrous relationship with gorgeous “investment counselor” con man Reddy has cost her nearly all her worldly possessions. All that’s left is the ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Island, a “drinking village with a fishing problem.” Moving into the manager’s unit, BeBe vows to make magic out of mud, and with the help of the inn’s cantankerous caretaker, Harry, and her junking friend, Weezie, she soon has the motel spiffed up and attracting paying guests.

But all it takes is one Reddy sighting in Fort Lauderdale for BeBe to drop everything and haul her hastily assembled posse south to participate in a somewhat outside-the-law sting. With a little luck, BeBe might get her fortune back, Harry (who’s looking hunkier every day) might get his boat back, and Reddy might get the prison stripes he so richly deserves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 13, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061753534

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.

Reviews for Savannah Breeze

[judithdcollins · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic!!! Southern Humor! Andrews lays on the southern charm and wit! A must summer read!" One of my favorites...have read all her books!

[bearette24 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I liked this, but not as much as her other books. BeBe Loudermilk is kind of annoying. I wasn't crazy about Harry, either. The plot was mostly engaging, but a little too long.

[lhaines56 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

As always entertaining, funny, and a really good read.

[vannababyy · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great story about a woman losing almost everything she owns except a run-down motel on Tybee Island. Amazingly, with the help of her best friend, she turns the place around and begins getting her life back.

[susegordon · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

BeBe Loudermilk, a Southern Belle in Savannah gets taken in by a younger man. No longer able to keep her restaurant open, her prized home sold and all of her possessions "stolen", Bebe is left with only the clothes on her back, her car and a dilapidated Breeze Inn on Tybee Island. With the help of her best friend Weezie, and Harry the "Manager" at the Breeze Inn, she turns the Inn back into a gem... and with grandpa along, all four head to Florida to take back BeBe's stolen money from a con man. In the end, Bebe comes to realize just what is most important in her life.

[amandamac42 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Easy summer read. Great characters you come to love!

[dianaleez · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Does not live up to the promise of Savannah Blues.

[susiesharp_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a cute story about BeeBee Loudermilk who fell for and "investment councilor" or so she thought he ended being a con man and left town with all her money and sold her house out from under her.BeeBee sets out to recoup what she's lost at an old motel she finds out she still owns. Plus she works at tracking down the scumbag who stole all her money.This was a fun quick read , cute southern fiction/chick-lit but a nice break from the heavier books I've been reading lately. I would say this is a "beach-read". This was my first Mary Kay Andrews I may read more but I will for sure check out her mysteries written in the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck.If you like Janet Evanovich type books this is one you may enjoy.

[gardentoad · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a really fun read.

[madamejeanie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

BeBe Loudermilk has always considered herself to be a fairly savvy businesswoman. She's lived in Savannah for her entire life and everybody in her family lived there for /their/ entire lives. Nothing much ever changes in Savannah. BeBe has managed to carve a fairly nice niche for herself, being the owner of what the critics call "the best little restaurant in Savannah," along with a gorgeous townhouse in the historic district and a handful of rental properties besides. BeBe is pretty satisfied with her life, especially after the trauma of her last divorce. But, even a level headed businesswoman can make a mistake, and BeBe makes a big one when she meets Reddy Millbanks III. Suave, helpful, attentive, with "slap-your-Mama" good looks, Reddy is right there to help in the middle of a very hectic time in BeBe's life. He even lets her in on a couple of very lucrative real estate deals and she makes a tidy little profit. In fact, she thinks it's another real estate deal when he needs her signature on a couple of legal documents and what difference could it possibly make that she doesn't have her reading glasses when he puts the papers before her just before she falls asleep one night, nestled in the stateroom of Reddy's yacht? When she wakes up in the morning, she realizes it makes a HUGE difference -- Reddy has her power of attorney and has sold everything she owns, including her home and all it's contents! With only the clothes she has on her back and her car, BeBe discovers from her lawyer that she still owns one piece of property -- a run-down, falling in no-tell motel called the Breeze Inn on Tybee Island. Apparently it's one property that Reddy didn't get around to flipping before he made the big score, so with no other place to call home, BeBe arrives with all her worldly goods in a paper bag from the Piggly Wiggly. She finds motel cabins that are enough to gross out a sewer worker, and a curmudgeonly caretaker named Harry who'd really rather she went about her business elsewhere. But BeBe decides to fix the place up and try to run it. And when her lawyer tips her off that there's been a Reddy sighting in Fort Lauderdale, she takes off with her grandfather, her best friend, and Harry, to perform a little sting of her own and get her money back.Ok, so this is chick lit, but it was pretty good. I like this author (she also writes the Callahan Garrity mystery series under the name Kathy Hogan Trocheck). She knows how to write with a southern flair and her characters are well fleshed and multi-dimensional. The story was fairly predictable but was humorous. It was a good book to read during the week I've just had. We had a horrible storm last Friday and no electricity, so I've only been able to read in little snatches. Anyway, this book fit the bill for me this week.

[thornton37814 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bebe Loudermilk loses all her possessions with the exception of a motel she didn't even know she owned when her new boyfriend Reddy skips town with everything. Since the police won't do anything about it, Bebe and friends set out to take justice into their own hands. I found this plot and the characters to be unbelievable, although somewhat enjoyable. I felt that the author could have accomplished her goals in fewer pages and that the book was unnecessarily long.

[dearheart_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Bebe Loudermilk is pretty overwhelmed between her grandmother being in the hospital and her grandfather needing help, her restaurant to run and her rental properties needing sudden repairs. But along comes Reddy, a man she meets at a charity dance, who seems to be the answer to her problems. Who can resist a good looking, well-to-do man, so willing to help out. Of course the reader can see the train wreck before it happens and this guy takes Bebe for not just everything she has, but her grandparent’s savings as well. But Bebe is a fighter and she got where she is by dedication and hard work, so when finding out she’s the owner of the very run-down Breeze Inn, she’s going to make this work and vows to get her money and possessions back from the guy who stole them. Helping her is her best friend, Weezie, a person who turns junk into treasures, and Harry, the guy hired by the former owner to fix up the place in exchange for living at the inn for free during the renovations. And when they discover where Reddy has moved on to, the group, along with her grandfather, schemes to scam the con artist to get their money back.I’d never read a book by this author, but my friend had suggested I give this a try. Told from points of view alternating between Bebe and Weezie, all of the characters were both fun and interesting, as were the situations and challenges they encounter. I hadn’t realized this wasn’t the first book in the series when picking this up. It became evident that there was a prior book when reading it, but I didn’t have any problems following along when those prior events were brought up. Just made it intriguing enough to make me want to go back and read that first one.

[maydacat_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Swindled. That’s the situation BeBe has found herself in, and she does not it, not one little bit. Reddy, investment counselor, wormed his way into BeBe’s affections, and then into her bank accounts and real-estate holdings. He ends owning nearly everything, and then disappears. She is left with a rundown motor court, and is lucky to have that. The police and her lawyer can do little to help, even though they concede she was tricked. Well, you can be sure BeBe is mad, but she subscribes to that old adage, don’t get mad, get even, and that is just what she does. First, she makes vast improvements on her motor court. Then she makes detailed plans to get her money back from the thieving con man. It takes some help from her friends, old and new, and her wily grandpa, and a lot of nerve to pull off a con on an expert con man. This story is quite well written, down to the last details, and it’s worth it just to read about BeBe’s plan. But the delightful characters, BeBe, Weezie, Uncle James, Grandpa, and Daniel, makes it all the more interesting and entertaining.

[alekee_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

loved this story, take about taking revenge!What would you do? Who will help? Our girl BeBe is a hoot, and I wanted to help her.Picking this one up was so entertaining, laughs and danger, well, some, even Grandpa is a joy!Watch what happens when someone messes with this southern woman, and how her friends rally around her.Once I finish, this one lingers and I wanted more!

[purple_pisces22 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another cute and quirky book by Mary Kay Andrews. # 2 in the Southern series was pretty good with just a few slower parts. The typical happily ever after ending, but that’s OK with these books.

[crazy4reading · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book but I did find it slow going at times. This is my first book by Mary Kay Andrews. I have not read the first book in this series so I was not familiar with the characters. I didn't feel lost in this story or confused.Savannah Breeze follows Bebe Loudermilk and her bet friend Weezie. Bebe meets a wonderful man who turns out to be a con man. As soon as I read about him I could tell she was being swindled out of all her money. When Bebe learns that Reddy has sold her townhouse, emptied her bank accounts, took her possessions and left her flat broke. She learns that she owns a motel on Tybee Island and decides to try and make it work while she works out a plan on how to get her money back from Reddy.The fun part is when Bebe, Weezie, Harry (guy who has helped take care of the motel) and Bebe's granddad go to Ft. Lauderdale Florida to con a con man. This is when Bebe and Harry realize that they both have feelings for each other. I enjoyed the ending and plan to read the first book and continue with this series.

[beckyhaase · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

SAVANNAH BREEZE Mary Kay Andrews BeBe, a formerly rich Southern belle, is reduced to remodeling her family’s rundown motel after a con man takes her money and most of her worldly goods. Her friends come to her aid when she determines to con the con man and get her money back – and remodel the motel into a magical get-away at the same time.A fun read by a master of the genre. You will enjoy this ramp thru the motel business.4 of 5 stars