Below is the complete list of Mary Kay Andrews’ Weezie and Bebe Mysteries books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
Weezie & Bebe Mysteries Books
- Savannah Blues (2002)
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View Book - Blue Christmas (2006)
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About Weezie and Bebe Mysteries
Mary Kay Andrews’s Weezie and Bebe books sit in an interesting place in her career. They belong to the period when she was moving from her earlier mystery roots into the warmer, funnier Southern fiction voice that would later define much of her work under the Mary Kay Andrews name. On her official site, Andrews has written more than once that Weezie Foley and BeBe Loudermilk are among the characters her readers most adore, and that feels right. They are not just recurring sleuth-adjacent heroines; they are the emotional center of an entire Savannah world.
The core sequence is Savannah Blues (2002), Savannah Breeze (2006), Blue Christmas (2006), and Christmas Bliss (2013). Andrews’s own site confirms the place of the first three Savannah books and explicitly describes Christmas Bliss as bringing Weezie Foley and BeBe Loudermilk back again. She even refers to Christmas Bliss as the fourth installment of her Savannah series.
What makes the series work is that it is never only about crime or plot mechanics. Weezie Foley is an antiques picker in Savannah, and that profession gives the books their texture: old houses, garage sales, hidden histories, valuable junk, local gossip, and trouble arriving through seemingly ordinary Southern life. Andrews’s description of Savannah Blues captures that perfectly, with Weezie combing Savannah’s back alleys and sales for treasure before landing in murder, mayhem, and dirty deals. The setup tells you exactly what kind of world these books inhabit—cluttered, funny, romantic, and a little dangerous.
BeBe Loudermilk brings a different energy. If Weezie is practical, observant, and tied to the antique-and-Savannah side of the books, BeBe is more combustible. She can turn any already messy situation into a full-scale catastrophe, and that is part of the series’ charm. Andrews’s page for Savannah Breeze makes that clear immediately: after a disastrous romance with a con man, BeBe loses everything and ends up at a rundown motor court on Tybee Island. The novel shifts more attention toward her, but it also shows how essential the friendship is. These books are built as much on the chemistry between the two women as on their mysteries or romantic entanglements.
That friendship is really why publication order matters. The larger pleasure is not simply solving one crisis at a time, but watching Weezie and BeBe’s world deepen. Savannah Blues establishes Savannah itself as a living setting rather than a postcard backdrop. Savannah Breeze widens the frame to include Tybee and gives BeBe a larger share of the story. Blue Christmas returns to Weezie’s orbit at the holidays, using shop rivalries, stolen decorations, and festive chaos to show how comfortably Andrews can mix seasonal charm with comic disruption. Andrews later wrote that readers had embraced Weezie and BeBe so strongly that bringing them back in Christmas Bliss felt like a celebration in itself.
By the time Christmas Bliss arrives, the series has softened slightly into something more domestic without losing its identity. Andrews’s own description centers on Weezie’s upcoming Christmas Eve wedding to Daniel and BeBe’s looming pregnancy, which shows how much the series has come to rely on life changes, friendship, and family momentum as much as mystery plotting. These are not detective novels in which nothing important changes between installments. People marry, panic, recover, move forward, and keep dragging each other into chaos.
Read in order, the Weezie and BeBe books feel like a bridge between Mary Kay Andrews’s earlier mystery fiction and her later Southern commercial novels. They keep the sharpness of a mystery writer, but they also lean hard into friendship, place, romance, humor, and the pleasures of a vividly inhabited Savannah world.