Homemade sin | mary kay andrews

Callahan Garrity is the ownerof house mouse, a cleaningservice that tidies up afterAtlantas elite.

Shes also aformer cop and a part-timesleuth.

She and her coterie ofdevoted helpers can ransack ahouse for clues faster than ittakes a fingerprint to set.

Some people might call CallahanGarrity nosy, but she prefersto think of her tendency toward snooping asa healthy interest in the truth.

So when newsreaches her of her cousin Pattis death duringa carjacking, Callahan shakes off her HouseMouse cleaning uniform to don her detectivescap.

Its not that she doesnt have confidence inthe Atlanta police--she used to be among theirranks--but the crime is too incongruous withPattis suburban life to seem like a randomincident.