{"id":16068,"date":"2014-02-23T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=16068"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:01:38","slug":"mary-kay-andrews-writing-as-kathy-hogan-trochek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mary-kay-andrews-writing-as-kathy-hogan-trochek\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kay Andrews Writing As Kathy Hogan Trocheck"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"I should start out by telling you that I actually remember back in the early 2000s, when I figured out that Kathy Hogan Trochek<\/strong> had finished writing her Callahan Garrity Mystery Series<\/strong>. I was bummed … royally bummed! I had come to look forward to spending time with Callahan, Edna (her mother), and the rest of the House Mouse company’s cleaning group.<\/p>\n

I was given Strange Brew<\/strong> <\/em>as a gift, when it was just published in 1997. Even though it was the sixth book in the mystery series, I decided to go ahead and read it. Sure, I don’t like to read my books out of sequence, but since it was a Halloween mystery and I had received the book during October, why not? (I can<\/em> be flexible sometimes…)<\/p>\n

After I finished Strange Brew<\/strong><\/em>, I quickly read Every Crooked Nanny<\/strong><\/em>, the first in the series. Hmmm… This Kathy Hogan Trocheck was equally good in her first mystery book. How neat was that? You know how sometimes a new author takes a few books to reach a really good level of writing? Not so with Trocheck, she started out really good, and just kept going!<\/p>\n

By the time Trocheck’s seventh mystery came out in 1998, I was all caught up with Callahan, Edna, and the rest of the gang. I couldn’t wait to read about Callahan’s Christmas season in Midnight Clear<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oh, oh… I had to wait two years for Trocheck’s eighth mystery, Irish Eyes<\/strong><\/em>, a St. Patrick’s Day mystery. Well, that’s OK. I can certainly wait two years for one of my favorite authors to release another mystery.<\/p>\n

Hmmm… Then two more years passed, three years, doggone it, what’s going on here?<\/p>\n

It was at this time that I finally found out what was going on. Kathy Hogan Trocheck<\/strong><\/a> was releasing her Weezie & Bebe Mystery Series<\/strong> as Mary Kay Andrews<\/strong><\/a>. (Andrews was also publishing non-mystery stand alones.) Trochek was finally back on my radar!<\/p>\n

Imagine how happy I was to find that she is now writing more Callahan Garrity mysteries. Andrews\/Trocheck has released three stories in the mystery series, and I am hoping she will be writing more book-length Callahan Garrity mysteries.<\/p>\n

So I guess it just goes to show that sometimes you have to be a detective just to be able to follow your favorite Cozy Mystery authors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I should start out by telling you that I actually remember back in the early 2000s, when I figured out that Kathy Hogan Trochek had finished writing her Callahan Garrity Mystery Series. I was bummed … royally bummed! I had come to look forward to spending time with Callahan, Edna (her mother), and the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-4ba","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16068"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33801,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16068\/revisions\/33801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}