Savannah Breeze

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.

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, show more 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. show less

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 show more 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. show less

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!

BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a relationship Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that she has left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Island that needs a lot of fixing up. Harry the current manager stays on to help fix up the place, only because she doesn't have the money to pay him what he's owed. Her friend Weezie lends her a hand at decorating the place to get paying customers.
Then she gets enough information to track down Reddy in Fort Lauderdale, and BeBe decides to go after him. She her granddaddy Loudermilk, Weezie and Harry with a plan to get her money back from him they way he took it from her.

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 show more 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. show less

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, show more 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. show less