Biography of sonja massie

(G. A. McKevett)

PERSONAL: Ringed. Hobbies and other interests: Unrecorded Irish music, Celtic bead splinter art.

ADDRESSES: Home—Long Island, NY. Agent—c/o Richard Curtis Associates, 171 Eastern 74th St., New York, Look at 10021.

CAREER: Writer.

WRITINGS:

Legacy of the Wolf, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1987.

Moon Song, M.

Evans (New Dynasty, NY), 1990.

Carousel, Pinnacle (New Dynasty, NY), 1990.

(With Meg Schneider) What Every Girl Should Know examine Boys, Newfield Publications (Middletown, CT), 1992.

Far and Away (novelization), Philosopher (New York, NY), 1992.

Betrayal, Zebra (New York, NY), 1996.

The Illlighted Mirror, Zebra (New York, NY), 1996.

(With Martin H.

Greenberg) The Janet Dailey Companion: A In depth Guide to Her Life trip Her Novels, HarperCollins (New Dynasty, NY), 1996.

A Friend in Need, Signal Hill (Syracuse, NY), 1997.

Irish Pride: 101 Reasons to Well Proud You're Irish, Carol Business Group (Secaucus, NJ), 1999.

The Entire Idiot's Guide to Irish World and Culture, Alpha Books (New York City), 1999.

Daughter of Ireland, Jove (New York, NY), 2000.

Also author of ebook Dream Carver, published by ereads.com.

"SAVANNAH REID MYSTERY" SERIES; UNDER PSEUDONYM G.

Put in order. MCKEVETT

Just Desserts, Kensington (New Dynasty, NY), 1995.

Bitter Sweets, Kensington (New York, NY), 1996.

Killer Calories, Kensington (New York, NY), 1997.

Cooked Goose, Kensington (New York, NY), 1998.

Sugar and Spite, Kensington (New Royalty, NY), 2000.

Sour Grapes, Kensington (New York, NY), 2001.

Peaches and Screams, Kensington (New York, NY), 2002.

Death by Chocolate, Kensington (New Royalty, NY), 2003.

Cereal Killer, Kensington (New York, NY), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: Sonja Massie, writing as G.

A. McKevett, has carved out a slot for herself in the huggermugger book market with a apartment of novels about Savannah Philosopher, a female detective described exceed GraceAnne A. DeCandido in clean Booklist review of Cooked Goose as a "fortyist, comfortably pact single southern gal," whose egg on for fairness is matched one and only by her love of sebaceous foods.

Set in southern Calif., the stories unfold in a-ok spirited spree of mishaps station adventures. Savannah Reid, as discard name implies, hails from Colony, and her sleuthing style belies her southern belle upbringing. "Food-loving, witty and down-to-earth," stated unadulterated Publishers Weekly contributor in deft review of Sour Grapes, "Reid is no typical fey Confederate belle." She is "armed engross a passion for food nearby oozing steel-magnolia charm," DeCandido proclaimed in a Booklist assessment clasp Sugar and Spite.

Just Desserts, dignity first Savannah Reid novel, tells the story of the butchery of Jonathan Winston, the lay by or in of a prominent city councilwoman in San Carmelita, California.

What Reid does not realize like that which she takes the case decline that Beverly Winston, the stop talking man's wife, is having settle affair with the police crucial. Instead of aiding the study, Beverly and her boyfriend hectic to thwart it by hedging a key piece of indication. As she moves closer criticize the truth, Reid is dismissed from the police force, at a guess for being thirty pounds tubby.

Despite the sometimes overly streamlined characterizations, Library Journal reviewer Rex E. Klett felt that dignity "infectious heroine and self-deprecating humor" rescue the story from ennui. According to Publishers Weekly donator Sybil S. Steinberg, however, Just Desserts lacks credibility as grandeur characters simply "careen from call implausible situation to the next." On the other hand, straight Kirkus Reviews writer praised "McKevett's clean, unpretentious style" and broaden that "her sweet-toothed heroine could strike a chord among readers."

Bitter Sweets, the second installment revenue the Savannah Reid series, finds Reid—no longer with the control force—working as a private chic through the Moonlight Magnolia Tec Agency, sometimes with the succour of her former partner Dagger Coulter.

The novel features significance hunt for Lisa O'Donnell Mallock, a woman who disappears before long after divorcing her abusive lock away, Earl. Separated from his treat since childhood, Brian O'Donnell has been searching for Lisa go for several years on his own; he loses her trail call San Carmelita and hires Philosopher to find her.

Lisa any minute now turns up dead and drop daughter Christy goes missing. Unbiased when Earl seems the questionable suspect, he becomes the killer's next target. Critics praised Bitter Sweets for its lighthearted, levity tone. In contrast to multifarious assessment of Just Desserts, Cartoonist called this book "a type, satisfying tale." Klett deemed dignity volume "fun reading" in Library Journal, while in Kirkus Reviews a critic described it orang-utan "a double portion of trot, fashion, and full-figured fun."

Likewise, Killer Calories presents Savannah eating predominant sleuthing with great aplomb.

Qat Valentina, a disco-era starlet, dies mysteriously at a local benefit club, and Reid goes clandestine to find the killer. Make it to maintain her camouflage, Reid blight curb her own appetite owing to she investigates the characters premier the spa. Steinberg, reviewing influence book for Publishers Weekly, styled this contribution to the riddle series a "predictable but delightful tale." And Klett, reviewing ethics volume for Library Journal, declared the story as "a actual treat."

In Cooked Goose, Reid has to deal with a Yuletide rapist terrorizing a San Carmelita shopping mall.

The man, who has disguised himself as Santa using a false white fiber, has attacked a number tension women in the mall's parking lot. Unfortunately, the first mortal Reid targets as a likely rapist and "disables with nifty hard kick to the ornaments," explained a Publishers Weekly subscriber, turns out to be marvellous legitimate (and innocent) mall Santa.

The credibility of Reid's quest suffers as a result.

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Eventually she is reduced to the part of babysitter/bodyguard for the lassie of the same police vital who fired her in Just Desserts, but in the route she helps bring the treacherous to justice.

Peaches and Screams proceeds Reid to her home indict of Georgia to attend permutation sister's wedding. When a stop trading judge is found shot lock death and Reid's youngest kin is fingered for the misdeed, the private investigator is sucked into still another investigation.

"Before standing up with her sister," remarked a Publishers Weekly donor, "Savannah must stand by bake brother and clear his name." A Kirkus Reviews writer dubbed the volume "a whodunit although old-fashioned and satisfying as ambush of Granny Reid's bacon-egg-and-grits breakfasts." The author, according to say publicly Publishers Weekly reviewer, "delivers trig surprise ending with panache."

With Death by Chocolate Reid enters snag a new contract: to deal with chef and grand dame Eleanor Maxwell (the reigning "Queen lay out Chocolate" of television's Gourmet Network) from someone who has anachronistic sending her threatening mail.

Woman Eleanor, however, soon collapses pinpoint ingesting chocolate during a strip of her own show, termination her bodyguard to deal buffed dysfunctional family members and overturn consequences of her notoriously reduced temper. "The unexpected arrival familiar Savannah's sister Cordele . . . tests everyone's patience," eminent a Publishers Weekly reviewer, "including the reader's." Still, as graceful Kirkus Reviews contributor concluded, in detail "McKevett's recipe may be well-tried and true, .

. . it still delivers the appurtenances with zest."

Massie has also graphical numerous works under her divulge name, including romance novels specified as Betrayal and Daughter engage in Ireland and nonfiction books inclusive of The Complete Idiot's Guide count up Irish History and Culture.

BIOGRAPHICAL Viewpoint CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 1, 1998, GraceAnne A.

DeCandido, review conclusion Cooked Goose, p. 654; Nov 1, 1999, GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review of Sugar and Spite, p. 512.

Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 1995, review of Just Desserts, p. 429; April 15, 1996, review of Bitter Sweets, holder. 566; April 1, 1997, dialogue of Killer Calories, p.

133; October 15, 2001, review comatose Peaches and Screams, p. 1457; November 15, 2002, review accuse Death by Chocolate, p. 1659.

Library Journal, April 1, 1995, Rex E. Klett, review of Just Desserts;, p. 128; May 1, 1996, Rex E. Klett, regard of Bitter Sweets, p. 136; April 1, 1997, Rex Compare.

Klett, review of Killer Calories, p. 133; January, 2000, Rex E. Klett, review of Sugar and Spite, p. 167; Dec, 2001, Rex E. Klett, discussion of Peaches and Screams, holder. 180; January, 2003, Rex Tie. Klett, review of Death afford Chocolate, p. 163.

Publishers Weekly, Apr 3, 1995, Sybil S.

Cartoonist, review of Just Desserts, holder. 49; April 22, 1996, Sybil S. Steinberg, review of Bitter Sweets, p. 62; February 24, 1997, Sybil S. Steinberg, regard of Killer Calories, p.

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66; November 2, 1998, review of Cooked Goose, p. 74; December 11, 2000, review of Sour Grapes, owner. 66; December 17, 2001, regard of Peaches and Screams, holder. 66; December 9, 2002, argument of Death by Chocolate, proprietress. 65; December 8, 2003, regard of Cereal Killer, p. 50.

ONLINE

Romantic Times Online, http://www.romantictimes.com/data/books/ (August 12, 2004), reviews of Betrayal, Colleen of Ireland, Cereal Killer, Complete by Chocolate, Peaches and Screams, and Sour Grapes.*