The club liked the book but thought it was put downable. They rated it 3.5

A few weeks ago I read Mary Kay Andrews' Savannah Blues and really enjoyed it, so I thought that I'd give Little Bitty Lies a try. The reviews that I read at Amazon pretty much said that it's okay but not as good as Savannah. And that pretty much hits it.

Lies is the story of Mary Bliss McGowan, an Atlanta yuppie who doesn't realise that her marriage is in trouble until the night she finds a note from her husband telling her that he's gone - with all their joint assets. Mary Bliss responds by telling one 'little bitty lie' - that he's just out of town. The one little lie escalates until she and her best friend end up faking his death to collect the insurance.

Andrews [who is really Atlanta author Kathy Trocheck] does a great job catching the Atlanta/Southern ambience, but it's hard to see Mary Bliss as a sympathetic character when she lies to her daughter and mother-in-law about her husband's death and when her major concern with the end of her marriage is financial.

I'm giving this one two stars and hoping that Ms Andrews will slow down and do better preparation before she writes her next one. ( )

Ok, this is "chick lit" and I almost stopped reading it in the first few
chapters, but I'm glad I didn't. It's funny and insightful and well
written. And it delves a bit deeper than it first appears. It was
satisfying, I must say, and I enjoyed it. Kathy Hogan Trocheck wrote this
(and a couple of other "chick lit" books) under the pen name Mary Kay
Andrews, and part of the reason I almost stopped reading it was that it just
felt different from her writing usually does. Trocheck is the author of the
Callahan Garrity mystery series, and those stories feel grittier and meatier
than this one did to start with. But eventually, I was able to catch the
rhythm of her writing in this genre and have to say that she did a pretty
good job. I'll give it a 4 ( )

A fun read. When Mary Bliss McGowan's husband walks out on her and her daughter without warning and takes all the money with him, she goes to extreme measures to stay on top of her mounting bills. ( )

This is the first book I read from Mary Kay Andrews. I found it really funny and scince I live in the south, i connected with the characters. I was an instant fan. ( )