"After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her farther's offer to help turn Birdsong -- the fading Victorian mansion he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia -- into a real estate cash cow. But Birdsong turns out to be a moldering Pepto-Bismol- pink dump with duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk, and grumpy distant relation who's claiming squatter's rights. Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rolls up her sleeves, and begins her journey back to the last place she ever expected: home." I loved the mysteries that March Kay Andrews wrote and I've read some of her chick-lit novels. The Fixer Upper is a fun read, full of Southernisms. Dempsey is in loads of trouble, facing jail time and disbarment and all she is guilty of is gullibility. How does she prove her innocence and find what she really wants out of life -- all at the same time? Somehow, she does it. The Fixer Upper has the quirky characters you'd expect in a *Southern* novel ... including Dempsey's mother, Ella Kate and Shorty. Fun stuff and recommended as a perfect summer read!