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Loading... The Fixer Upperby Mary Kay Andrews
None. Amazon preorder  romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |  A good beach read. Just enough character development to keep you interested, not too deep that you can't set it aside and pick it up later without forgetting something crucial. Dempsey is well-written, but would have liked a big more between her and Hodder. This could easily be the first of a series about life in Guthrie. (  ) cindystark | Mar 25, 2013 | Dempsey Killebrew, Georgetown Law grad, has been caught up in a DC scandal at the lobbyist where she was employed. Fired and without means to get a good job for the near future, Dempsey heads to her father's ancestral home (he just inherited) to hide out and make the house ready for sale. Her arrival in the small town of Guthrie GA is not met with applause (not that she was expected it but she didn't expect hostility either.) While nursing her wounds, she is tracked down and threatened by the FBI to cooperate in a sting to catch the head of the lobby (her old boss) and a dirty congressman. At the same time, the house needs not just a coat of paint but major renovations which don't make an irascible elderly cousin/squatter very happy. The book was fun and entertaining and caused some very heated discussion at my book club. (  ) cyderry | Nov 30, 2012 | Not a great book, but an easy summer read. I liked part of the ending but it left me somewhat dissatisfied. (  ) krazy4katz | Aug 4, 2012 | I truly enjoyed reading this book. It was light, fun and engaging. Loved the characters, the humor and the romance. A young lobbyist inadvertently becomes involved in a Washington, D.C. scandal, loses her job and is forced to move to a very small town called Guthrie, Georgia. Because she has no place to live, she accepts her father's offer to renovate his recently inherited Victorian family mansion in order to sell it. Upon arriving to Guthrie our heroine, Dempsey, finds that a distant elderly aunt is living in the house with her dog. In addition, she discovers that the house is in a dreadful state of disrepair. Dempsey takes on both the house and the aunt and in so doing discovers so much about herself. While she is in Guthrie her former boss tries to lay blame for his scandal on her. Without spoiling any future reader's fun, suffice it to say that our heroine gets her revenge and it is super sweet! Great weekend or beach read. astridnr | Feb 18, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance.… (more)
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