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Blue Blood (Debutante Dropout Mystery #1)
by
Susan McBride (Goodreads Author)
To the dismay of her high society motherCissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wantsno part of the Junior League life -- opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend Molly O'Brien is in bad trouble, accused of killing her boss at the local restaurant "Jugs." Though no proper deb would ever set foot in such a sleazy dive...more
Mass Market Paperback, 333 pages
Published
January 27th 2004
by Avon
(first published January 2004)
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Loved the main character because she wants to do her own thing and not depend on her parents $$$ or reputation. But the book points out loud and clear that if it hadn't been for Andy, her mom and their lawyer looking into the murder of a club owner her friend Molly would have gone to prison because the evidence looked so convincing and she was poor and had no influence. It was a fun read!Hopefully there will be more starring Andy the debutante dropout.
Slow beginning, but ending was pretty good. I could care less about high society, designer clothes, and debutantes, and that's the way Andrea feels about them too. Her mother, on the other hand, feels they are just about the only important things, hence the friction between those two. Enter divorced Molly, Anderea's former college roommate, and things really heat up. Some profanity
Great little mystery book that's an easy summer type of read. I love a book that gets you thinking, but maybe I've watched too much Law and Order. Because by the middle of the book I had a really good idea of who did it (I was right of course). Nonetheless, I enjoyed the read and can't wait to read the follow up.
Susan is a delightful person (I've met her at several author conferences) and that comes across in her books. This is a tale about a mother and daughter who love one another but have very different ideas about what's important in life. And so-o-o funny...
i really love reading this book. its all about friendship. . It's about Andy helping her friend, Molly, whom she didn't have any contact with for many years. Then, many years have passed, (i forgot how many year. sorry.) Molly called Andy and asked her for help, because she was accused of murder. The police thinks that Molly killed her boss, Bud Hartman, in Jugs. But Andy didn't believe that Molly killed Bud, because Molly is a very nice person. When the authority was about to give up on the cas...more
Enjoyable read with humor and interesting characters.
Andy is a web designer who tries to live within her means and avoid the social complications of her priviledged family in the Park Cities, Dallas' most prestigious area. Her mother, Cissy is determined to draw her back into society. When a friend from school is implicated in a murder, Andy jumps in to help clear her.
This is the first of the Debutante Dropout Mysteries and like most cozy mysteries is character driven more than plot driven. I enjoyed the characters, particularly Cissy, who is a cl...more
This is the first of the Debutante Dropout Mysteries and like most cozy mysteries is character driven more than plot driven. I enjoyed the characters, particularly Cissy, who is a cl...more
Cute
I just finished this book and really liked it! I think I like it because it is set in Dallas which is the area of Texas that I live (although not in Dallas!) that I can relate to many places they mention. I also like that she is a web designer (I do that on the side) but wish they would talk about that more than they do. I think there has been one "scene" that talked about it.
a very enjoyable cozy thus far, can't wait to see how it ends!
a very enjoyable cozy thus far, can't wait to see how it ends!
It was not as funny as something Evanovich could whip up in her Plum series, but it was sufficiently witty and i appreciated the mother-daughter dynamics from the perspective of a person who has been there and done that and still faces it partly every day. Hell has no wrath like a mother whos daughter does not want to be what she has planned her to be. But all things considered I kind of thought pearl toting Cissy was quite the softy actually...
“I really enjoyed this mystery set in Dallas about a young woman bucking the life her mother has planned out for her. She drops everything to come to the aid of a friend who calls her from jail after being accused of killing the owner of the shady restaurant where she worked. Andy decides to to a little undercover sluthing of her own at Jugs, the infamous eatery and the fun kicks into high gear at that point. A funny and fluffy read!”
A great start to the Debutante Drop-out series. Fast moving, fun, and with a thoroughly likable protagonist in Andy. The characters that needed to be were well-developed, the plot interesting - so the mystery is easily figured out for lack of suspects, but I didn't notice any plot holes! - and overall, the book was just plain good. I'm looking forward to reading the others and am so glad that I have the next one right here. :)
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4.5 stars
I'm very often drawn to chick-lit for mindless reading I can get through quickly, but very often they're entertaining at the time and quickly forgetten. Maybe it's because I have a soft spot (read: obsession) for Nancy Drew, but I absolutely loved this book! This will absolutely become one of my longterm favorites.
a fun read...a frown up Nancy Drew..and takes place in Dallas. Not a lot of books take place in Big D, since i lived there i like that I can picture the streets and places
It's been so long since I've read this book but I remember liking it. I'll have to reread it one of these days.
it was a pretty good book. a mystery. but i barely remember reading it. (i read it a long time ago
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12/27/07
Extremely funny debut of a mystery series.
12/27/07
Extremely funny debut of a mystery series.
Frivolous fun.
Apr 03, 2008
Dana Serrano
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Susan McBride is the author of women’s fiction, including The Truth About Love and Lightning, Little Black Dress, and The Cougar Club, as well as the award-winning Debutante Dropout Mysteries. She calls herself an “accidental cougar” after meeting a man nine years younger in 2005 when she was a St. Louis Magazine “top single.” They were married in February 2008 and live happily ever after in a sub...more
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