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'''Savannah Reid''' is the [[protagonist]] of a series of [[Detective Drama|mystery novels]] by G.A. McKevett, the [[Same Face, Different Name|pseudonym]] of author Sonja Massie.
Middle-aged Savannah Reid is proud of her Southern heritage and not ashamed of her plus-sized body. After being kicked off the police force because she discovered that some of the higher-ups would be implicated in a case, she opens her own [[Private Detective|private investigation]] company. Though it may not be the best-paying job, she's got her friends to help solve the case: Tammy, her enthusiastic assistant; Dirk, the [[Jerk
The series, in order:
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# A Decadent Way To Die
# Buried in Buttercream
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* [[Action Girl]]: Savannah's a [[Private Detective]] with a black belt in karate, and carries her Beretta everywhere she goes.
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* [[Breaking Bad News Gently]]: Mentioned several times in the books when there's news to share.
* [[Bullet Holes and Revelations]]: This part in one book:
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Three bullets seared burning paths through living flesh.
Two bodies hit the floor. }}
* [[The Butler Did It]]: The conclusion of {{spoiler|''Death by Chocolate''}}.
* [[Cake Toppers]]: Savannah's wedding cake has these. During the first ruined wedding date, they end up getting buried in the frosting, but Savannah salvages them to use again.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]:
** Margie to [[Archnemesis Dad|Captain Bloss]] in ''Cooked Goose''. Things came to a head when her dad came straight from a [[No-Tell Motel]] to shout at her for being worthless and wrecking her new car, not even asking if she's okay, not asking ''why'' it was wrecked, when she only did it to escape from a rapist...
** Savannah finally chews out her old man in ''Sugar and Spite''. All those years, she and her siblings had to hear the whispers about how her dad was fooling around with another woman, and yet he never divorced his wife - and that's ignoring the fact that he almost never came home. Now that Savannah's fourty-something, he finally does divorce Savannah's mother... and asks Savannah to be the ''maid of honor'' for his marriage to the woman he's had an affair with for decades.
* [[Candlelit Bath]]: Savannah is fond of these. Often, they help her to relax, but unfortunately they frequently get interrupted by phone calls.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Dirk's words of wisdom in ''Bitter Sweets''.
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'''Tammy:''' What? }}
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Kenny Bates.
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* [[Chef of Iron]]: Savannah loves to cook, but her main purpose in life is to catch the bad guys.
* [[Clear My Name]]: In ''Bitter Sweets'', the San Carmelita Police Department are eager to declare Savannah an accomplice to murder, as she had unwittingly led the murderer to the victim.
* [[Clear Their Name]]:
** In ''Sugar and Spite'', Dirk's ex-wife is shot in his house, with his gun, after the two of them fought. He's not the killer, but Savannah needs to prove it...
** In ''Peaches and Screams'', Savannah's youngest sibling, Macon, is accused of murdering the judge. Things aren't looking too good for him at first, but then Savannah realizes it wasn't him...
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* [[The Coroner]]: Dr. Jennifer Liu.
* [[Country Mouse]]: Everyone in Savannah's family, to some degree.
* [[Deep-Fried Whatever]] and [[Everything's Better
* [[Detective Mole]]: {{spoiler|After Titus Dunn commits his crimes, he helps investigate them. Until, during one of them, he gets [[Revealing Injury|injured in a car crash]] - ''then'' he "goes missing".}}
* [[Detective Patsy]]: {{spoiler|''Fat-Free and Fatal''.}}
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* [[Doomed Appointment]]: {{spoiler|Francie Gorton}} arranges to meet Savannah in ''Sour Grapes'', but someone overhears the phone call, and feeds {{spoiler|Francie}} false information to make her ''believe'' she's still meeting Savannah. Instead, she's met by the killer.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Savannah tells her Granny something to this effect after her wedding is postponed a ''second'' time.
* [[Driven to Murder]]: Usually goes along with [[Playing the Victim Card]].▼
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Inverted. Tammy is a very intelligent blonde.
* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: The way one murder is committed.
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Dr. Jennifer Liu is noted as having one of these.
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]:
** Jesup's husband (for a short time), Bleak Manifest. His given name, Milton Pillsbury, isn't much better.
** Savannah thinks that Moon Shadow (the name of an exotic dancer) is one. Turns out that Moon Shadow isn't her stage name - it's actually her real name; she had hippie parents. She has a brother named Star Shadow.
* [[Fat and Proud]]: Size is only a number to Savannah, and not something to judge someone by. She used to worry about her weight, but realized that she'll lead a much happier life if she doesn't make fitting into tiny jeans a life priority.
* [[Fat Slob]]: What some characters see Dirk as, even Savannah. He ''does'' fit a lot of it... beer belly, poor table manners, crude language/mannerisms, leaving wrappers everywhere...
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Savannah
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** [[The Smart Guy]]: Gibson
* [[Foot-Dragging Divorcee]]: When Marietta's all set for her third marriage, she claims that her fiance's current wife is trying to drag it out to mess up the wedding.
* [[Friend
* [[Gas Chamber]]: How {{spoiler|Barbie Matthews}} is murdered in ''Sour Grapes''... [[Cruel and Unusual Death|trapped in a trunk with insecticide...]]
* [[Gilligan Cut]]:
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Things were in the crapper. Although Atlanta across the room, officially attending the meeting between them and Angela Herriot, she hadn't spoken a single word. }}
* [[Glad I Thought of It]]: Used a couple times, usually with Dirk.
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* [[I Call It Vera]]: Savannah likes to name her plants, such as a bougainvillea named Bogey (after [[Humphrey Bogart]]).
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: In one book, Savannah thinks she's out of luck because the killer's got her cornered, and her gun is out of reach. Luckily, Atlanta sneaks up behind the killer and whacks them with her guitar, breaking it.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
** On one case, a ring with a star-shaped marking becomes important. When showing a drawing of it to Bloss, Savannah can't help but say, "What about you? Does this design ''ring'' a bell with you?" He isn't amused.
** Dirk and his "extra-large package" holiday [[Double Entendre]]. Savannah tells him "don't you dare say it", but he does anyway.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: In ''Murder a la Mode'', Savannah tells Brandy "You're such a ''[[Sarcasm Mode|sweet]]'' person." [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm|Brandy is thrilled at the compliment.]]
* [[Insult to Rocks]]: There's two instances where Dirk describes someone as a "pussy", and Savannah protests. When asked if she's objecting to the language, Savannah replies no, that as a cat lover, she's objecting to the association.
* [[Is the Answer
* [[It Never Gets Any Easier]]: This is said several times.
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Tammy blames herself for {{spoiler|her ex-boyfriend shooting Savannah}}.
* [[Jerk
* [[Just Friends]]: Savannah and Dirk, though [[Everyone Can See It|everyone can tell]] that they're perfect for each other. Even though the two of them know they have some feelings for each other, they consider themselves best friends. {{spoiler|Dirk finally [[Relationship Upgrade|proposes]] to her in ''A Decadent Way to Die'', and she says yes.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: A teen knew that his sister's boyfriend was a bad guy even before the guy murdered someone, because he literally kicked the family's dog for no reason.
* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]: {{spoiler|''Bitter Sweets.''}}
* [[Killer Cop]]: {{spoiler|Titus Dunn, killer cop ''and'' cop killer.}}
* [[Lame Comeback]]: Jesup's husband-for-a-couple-days, Bleak Manifest, gives us "You suck worser!"
* [[Large Ham]]: Marietta in ''Peaches and Screams''. True, she was left at the altar, but her fiance ''was'' technically still married to his wife, and this was going to be her ''third'' marriage.
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'''Waycross:''' (singing) [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Nooooobody knooooows de trouble I see...]] }}
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Savannah and Dirk's relationship, more or less.
* [[Location Theme Naming]]: Shirley Reid named all nine of her children after Georgia towns: Savannah, Alma, Waycross, Marietta, Vidalia, Jesup, Cordele, Macon, and Atlanta.
* [[Lost Wedding Ring]]: At Savannah's second attempt at a wedding day, one of her sisters accidentally throws out the groom's ring, requiring Savannah to go back and hunt it down right before walking up the aisle. It is after she finds it that she also finds her wedding planner dead.
* [[Lying to
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: Happens several times in the series. One of them is {{spoiler|Francie Gorton}}, who, according to the coroner, could have either fallen or been pushed into a stone cellar.
* [[Mall Santa]]: Savannah accidentally [[Groin Attack|injured]] one, mistaking him for the criminal that dressed as Santa.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Don't harm anyone Savannah considers family or is protecting as part of her job, because she ''will'' pay you back double. For example, in ''A Decadent Way to Die'', after {{spoiler|Tammy's boyfriend hurts her}}, Savannah drops in to pay him a visit. She kicks the door in on him hard enough to break his nose, gives him a kick [[Groin Attack|in the spot men least like to be kicked]] bad enough to require surgery, and holds her gun to his head, threatening him to never even ''text'' {{spoiler|Tammy}} again.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Anthony Villa (rich owner of a vineyard), Barbara "Barbie" Matthews (several-time beauty pageant winner), Tammy Hart (one of the most kindhearted people Savannah knows).
* [[Mixed Metaphor]]: Dirk does these sometimes, and Savannah calls him out on it. She does it herself sometimes, though: "That's a horse of a different feather."
* [[Moment Killer]]: {{spoiler|During Dirk's proposal to Savannah... "I love you, Savannah. I loved you from the minute I met you. You walked into that station house with your uniform on. And I said, 'Wow! Look at the rack on that one and...' Oh, sorry, that's not very romantic, but... well... anyway..." Fortunately, he continues on with the sweet things, and so the moment is smoothed over.}}
* [[Motive Rant]]
* [[Murderer POV]]: Happens several times, but always keeps the murderer's identity a secret.
** In ''Cooked Goose'', the murderer's identity is eventually revealed to the reader during his POV, though Savannah and friends don't know it yet.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Tommy Stafford refers to Dirk as "Dirt" and "Kirk".
* [[Mysterious Informant]]:
** Tammy started as this in the first book.
** There's one in ''Cooked Goose''.
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* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Savannah. Dirk, too, to a somewhat lesser degree.
* [[No-Tell Motel]]: Unfortunately, many of Savannah's cases involve the Blue Moon Motel at some point.
* [[Not
* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: Savannah realizes this when she enters a medieval-themed, reality television show.
* [[Old Dog]]: [[Stock Animal Name|Colonel Beauregard]].
* [[Once an Episode]]:
** In nearly every book, Savannah has one of her siblings or her Granny coming to visit her.
** There will almost always be a cookout with the members of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency. This is the last scene most of the time.
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* [[Parental Neglect]]: Macon Reid Sr. is a truck driver that only bothers to come home just once a year. Shirley Reid spends all her time under the Elvis picture at the bar. Life for Savannah and her siblings was greatly improved when their grandparents took them in.
* [[Perp Sweating]]: The San Carmelita PD even calls their interrogation room the Sweatbox. Dirk's pretty good at pulling off interrogations in there.
* [[Plain Name]]:
** The reason that [[Fail O'Suckyname|Bleak Manifest]] chose his new name is because his birth name is Milton Pillsbury.
** One of the bad guys decided that he wanted to be called Snake instead of his given name, Maximillian Fernando Schneider.
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* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Every title is a pun that has to do with food. ''Just Desserts'', ''Killer Calories'', ''Cooked Goose'', ''Corpse Suzette'', ''Death by Chocolate'', ''Cereal Killer''.... to name a few.
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: Gibson.
* [[Raised
* [[Real Men Eat Meat]]: The first book claims Dirk considers anything that hasn't recently said "moo" (including fruits, vegetables, pastas, and whole grain products) to be "sissy food".
* [[Rear Window Investigation]]: Savannah's done quite a few of these. When someone points out to her that it's breaking and entering, she says it depends on how you look at it, or else calls it "the search for truth".
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* [[Save the Villain|Save The Archenemy]] In ''Cooked Goose'', Bloss has a heart attack. An ambulance is on its way, but in the meantime, he needs CPR. Dirk says that with it being Bloss, he just can't do it. So, despite how much she hates Bloss, she steps in - but she lets Dirk know that he owes her ''big'' time.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: As she isn't on the police force anymore, Savannah shouldn't have a lot of the information she gets, but she ''does'' have connections with a cop and the coroner...
* [[See You in Hell]]: At one point, {{spoiler|Titus Dunn}} says to {{spoiler|Captain Bloss}}: "We're both dead. But you're goin' to get to hell first, buddy... [[Taking You
* [[Series Continuity Error]]:
* Book 1 says that Savannah never knew her biological father, and that Stepdad #3 was a truck driver. In book 5, Savannah's biological father is Macon Reid, a truck driver, who she ''certainly'' knew, and there are no references to her mother ever having multiple husbands. It is also said in that book that Savannah only has one brother, Waycross. Two or three books later, we meet Macon Reid Jr., one of Savannah's ''two'' brothers.
* In ''Cooked Goose'', Vidalia's youngest twins are named Noel and Merry for their near-Christmas birthdate. In ''Buried in Buttercream'', they're named Peter and Wendy.
* [[The Sheriff]]: Sheriff Mahoney of McGill, Georgia in ''Peaches and Screams''.
* [[Smoking Gun]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in one book, when Jennifer Liu says "Since when was a crime ever solved with a smoking gun, anyway?"
* [[
* [[Super OCD]]: One character has it, and the breaks from his usual routine/cleanliness are what help Savannah and friends realize he was murdered, and how.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Antoine.
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** {{spoiler|Anthony Villa in ''Sour Grapes''}} also does so, though he ''was'' somewhat involved. Once he's brought to jail, however, {{spoiler|his wife tries to turn it around and claim that he's completely innocent, so that he can get out of jail.}}
* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: Toward the end of ''Murder a la Mode'', Savannah gets pushed down a flight of stairs by the killer and is injured. The killer's standing over Savannah with an [[An Axe to Grind|axe]], prepared to kill her. It's only through talking her way out of it, and Tammy's timely arrival, that Savannah survives.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]:
** Ryan frequently gets described this way, word for word.
** Titus Dunn in ''Cooked Goose'' is described this way once.
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* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Vidalia has two pairs of twins. The first twins are [[Mother Goose|Jack and Jill]]ian, and the second are Noel and Merry (born around Christmas)... though many books later, it appears that the second set of twins' names has been forgotten, because now their names are [[Peter Pan|Peter and Wendy]].
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Savannah's siblings, when they come "visit" her.
* [[Title Drop]]:
** Savannah comments that revenge tastes good, like sugar and spite.
** Lady Eleanor is baking and taste-testing a cake recipe called ''Death by Chocolate'' when she dies.
** Pete the soundman gives us this one: "Maybe someone smacked her on the head with it. Maybe Tess died... ''Murder a la Mode''."
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: If you're bribing Savannah, or she's bribing someone else, expect the price to be a box of Godiva chocolates.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]:
** Savannah gets kicked off the police force. It was ostenibly for being "overweight and out of shape", but real reason was that Savannah, during the course of investigating a murder, realized that the chief had an affair with the victim's wife, and that made the chief a suspect.
** Ryan was dishonorably discharged from the FBI - on paper it was for "Gross Negligence of Duty", but [[Hide Your Gays|that wasn't the real reason]].
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* [[Valentine's Day Episodes]]: ''Sugar and Spite''.
* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]: Atlanta. She's not the typical "dim and good" character, however - she is whiny and obnoxious and selfish - but she's not wise in the matters of escort services and thirty-year-old men claiming that they're your soulmate.
* [[Weight Woe]]:
** Savannah used to be worried about her weight, until she decided [[Fat and Proud|that she loves her body no matter what size]].
** Atlanta develops an eating disorder when she becomes obsessed with becoming a beauty pageant queen.
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: With Savannah, it's snakes. With Dirk, it's heights... and chickens.
* [[Your Mom]]: Savannah to Hillquist:
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