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* ObsessivelyOrganized: One character has it, and the breaks from his usual routine/cleanliness are what help Savannah and friends realize he was murdered, and how.
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* SuperOCD: One character has it, and the breaks from his usual routine/cleanliness are what help Savannah and friends realize he was murdered, and how.
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* TalkingYourWayOut: 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 [[AnAxeToGrind axe]], prepared to kill her. It's only through talking her way out of it, and Tammy's timely arrival, that Savannah survives.
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* TalkingYourWayOut: 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 [[AnAxeToGrind axe]], axe, prepared to kill her. It's only through talking her way out of it, and Tammy's timely arrival, that Savannah survives.
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# Just Desserts
# Bitter Sweets
# Killer Calories
# Cooked Goose
# Sugar and Spite
# Sour Grapes
# Peaches and Screams
# Death by Chocolate
# Cereal Killer
# Murder a la Mode
# Corpse Suzette
# Fat Free and Fatal
# Poisoned Tarts
# A Body To Die For
# Wicked Craving
# A Decadent Way To Die
# Buried in Buttercream
# Killer Honeymoon
# Killer Gourmet
# Killer Reunion
# Every Body On Deck
# Hide and Sneak
# Bitter Sweets
# Killer Calories
# Cooked Goose
# Sugar and Spite
# Sour Grapes
# Peaches and Screams
# Death by Chocolate
# Cereal Killer
# Murder a la Mode
# Corpse Suzette
# Fat Free and Fatal
# Poisoned Tarts
# A Body To Die For
# Wicked Craving
# A Decadent Way To Die
# Buried in Buttercream
# Killer Honeymoon
# Killer Gourmet
# Killer Reunion
# Every Body On Deck
# Hide and Sneak
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# Just Desserts
''Just Desserts''
#Bitter Sweets
''Bitter Sweets''
#Killer Calories
''Killer Calories''
#Cooked Goose
''Cooked Goose''
#Sugar ''Sugar and Spite
Spite''
#Sour Grapes
''Sour Grapes''
#Peaches ''Peaches and Screams
Screams''
#Death ''Death by Chocolate
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#Cereal Killer
''Cereal Killer''
#Murder ''Murder a la Mode
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#Corpse Suzette
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#Fat ''Fat Free and Fatal
Fatal''
#Poisoned Tarts
''Poisoned Tarts''
#A ''A Body To Die For
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#Wicked Craving
''Wicked Craving''
#A ''A Decadent Way To Die
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#Buried ''Buried in Buttercream
Buttercream''
#Killer Honeymoon
''Killer Honeymoon''
#Killer Gourmet
''Killer Gourmet''
#Killer Reunion
''Killer Reunion''
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Deck''
#Hide ''Hide and Sneak
Sneak''
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* DomesticAbuse: Comes up a lot. Happens to someone very near and dear to Savannah in ''A Decadent Way to Die''; is a major plot point in that book.
* DomesticAbuser: Several minor characters are losers that do this, but the most featured one is [[spoiler:Tammy's boyfriend, Chad.]]
* DomesticAbuser: Several minor characters are losers that do this, but the most featured one is [[spoiler:Tammy's boyfriend, Chad.]]
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* DomesticAbuse: DomesticAbuse:
** Comes up a lot. Happens to someone very near and dear to Savannah in ''A Decadent Way to Die''; is a major plot point in that book.
* DomesticAbuser: ** Several minor characters are losers that do this, but the most featured one is [[spoiler:Tammy's boyfriend, Chad.]]
** Comes up a lot. Happens to someone very near and dear to Savannah in ''A Decadent Way to Die''; is a major plot point in that book.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: When Savannah meets a girl named Chicago and mentally smirks at the name, she reminds herself that she of all people can't judge, considering [[LocationThemeNaming her own family]].
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: When Savannah meets a girl named Chicago and mentally smirks at the name, she reminds herself that she of all people can't judge, considering [[LocationThemeNaming her own family]]. In Savannah's defense, her own name is, while not exactly massively popular, not unusual for a girl's name, especially in the South. "Chicago", on the other hand, is practically unknown as a person's name, male or female.
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--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) ♪ [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nobody knows de trouble I see...]] ♫
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--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) ♪ [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Nobody knows de trouble I see...]] ♫
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# Hide and Sneak
At least one spinoff - ''Murder in Her Stocking'', a prequel featuring Granny Reid - is in the works.
At least one spinoff - ''Murder in Her Stocking'', a prequel featuring Granny Reid - is in the works.
** Tammy to her mother at the end of ''Hide and Sneak'', after she walks in on her mother insultingly telling Savannah and Granny Reid that her marriage to Waycross and birth of their daughter is a mistake.
* LoonyFan: In ''Hide and Sneak'', [[spoiler:"Kitty Z". She was obsessed with Ethan Malloy, one of his biggest fans, and sent both he and his wife photoshopped pictures of the other in an attempt to break them up. When that didn't work quickly enough, she kidnapped his wife and toddler son (murdering the nanny in the process), and intended to kill his wife and earn his affection by claiming she rescued his son from the person that had killed his wife.]]
* PersonalRaincloud: Discussed in ''Hide and Sneak''; Savannah says this to Dirk:
-->''"I was thinking you're kinda like that. Wherever you go, the sun can be shining to beat the band, but no. You just sit there, generating your own clouds, cooking up your own personal rainstorms, thunder, and lightning."''
-->''"I was thinking you're kinda like that. Wherever you go, the sun can be shining to beat the band, but no. You just sit there, generating your own clouds, cooking up your own personal rainstorms, thunder, and lightning."''
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* ShipperOnDeck: Savannah and pretty much everyone else thinks that Tammy and Savannah's brother Waycross would make an adorable couple (and they do become one.)
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* ShipperOnDeck: Savannah and (and pretty much everyone else else) thinks that Tammy and Savannah's brother Waycross would make an adorable couple (and they do become one.)
* SpinOff: ''Murder in Her Stocking'' is a spinoff about Granny Reid solving a mystery when Savannah and her siblings were children.
* StockAnimalName: Granny Reid's dog is named Colonel Beauregard. In a later book it's revealed that ''all'' the dogs she's owned have been named Colonel Beauregard: each is given a different first name (e.g. Colonel Abraham Beauregard), which is quickly forgotten.
* StockAnimalName: Granny Reid's dog is named Colonel Beauregard. In a later book it's revealed that ''all'' the dogs she's owned have been named Colonel Beauregard: each is given a different first name (e.g. Colonel Abraham Beauregard), which is quickly forgotten.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: If you're bribing Savannah, or she's bribing someone else, expect the price to be a box of Godiva chocolates.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: If you're bribing Savannah, or she's bribing someone else, expect the price to be either a box of Godiva chocolates.chocolates, or chocolate chip cookies with macadamia nuts.
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Vidalia has two pairs of twins. The first twins are [[MotherGoose 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 [[PeterPan Peter and Wendy]].
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Vidalia has two pairs of twins. The first twins are [[MotherGoose 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 [[PeterPan [[Literature/PeterPan Peter and Wendy]].
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# Every Body On Deck
* CurseCutShort: Dirk occasionally breaks off when starting to swear in the presence of Savannah's granny.
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* DeepFriedWhatever: Savannah loves 'em. Chocolate, too.
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:After Titus Dunn commits his crimes, he helps investigate them. Until, during one of them, he gets [[RevealingInjury injured in a car crash]] - ''then'' he "goes missing".]]
* DetectivePatsy: [[spoiler:''Fat-Free and Fatal''.]]
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:After Titus Dunn commits his crimes, he helps investigate them. Until, during one of them, he gets [[RevealingInjury injured in a car crash]] - ''then'' he "goes missing".]]
* DetectivePatsy: [[spoiler:''Fat-Free and Fatal''.]]
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* DeathFakedForYou: In ''Every Body On Deck'', [[spoiler:Natasha wants to get away with her husband's murder, get revenge on the other woman, and start a new life, so she has one of her biggest fans put the body of said fan's sister (who was awaiting burial due to the Alaskan winter) in place of Natasha, set the car on fire to hide the identity, and then do a switcheroo on the dental records so that they'd still think it was her.]]
* DeepFriedWhatever: Savannah loves'em. Chocolate, too.
just about anything deep-fried..
* DetectiveMole: In ''Cooked Goose'', [[spoiler:After Titus Dunn commits his crimes, he helps investigate them. Until, during one of them, he gets [[RevealingInjury injured in a car crash]] - ''then'' he "goes missing".]]
* DetectivePatsy: Occurs in both [[spoiler:''Fat-Free andFatal''.]]Fatal'']] and [[spoiler:''Every Body On Deck'']]. [[IdiotBall You have to wonder what exactly they were expecting to happen]], hiring a private investigation agency with a good track record.
* DeepFriedWhatever: Savannah loves
* DetectiveMole: In ''Cooked Goose'', [[spoiler:After Titus Dunn commits his crimes, he helps investigate them. Until, during one of them, he gets [[RevealingInjury injured in a car crash]] - ''then'' he "goes missing".]]
* DetectivePatsy: Occurs in both [[spoiler:''Fat-Free and
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* EvilTwin: In a police office out of town, Savannah and Dirk meet a doppelganger of Kenny Bates. Like Kenny, he works at the desk and is a CasanovaWannabe. Savannah refers to him as Kenny's "evil twin".
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* EvilTwin: Discussed. In a police office out of town, Savannah and Dirk meet a doppelganger of Kenny Bates. Like Kenny, he works at the desk and is a CasanovaWannabe. Savannah refers to him as Kenny's "evil twin". They meet another doppelganger in Alaska.
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* FootDraggingDivorcee: 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.
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* FootDraggingDivorcee: When Marietta's all set for her third marriage, she claims that her fiance's current wife is trying to drag it out the divorce to mess up the wedding.
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"Okay, you boys were right. There ain't no weapons here."
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* GrannyClassic: Granny Reid, who was Savannah's real maternal figure growing up: kind and selfless, an amazing cook, and a giver of great advice. She'll gladly scold one of her grandchildren if they need it, though, and she even got in on the action once by tasing a man that got into a fight with Savannah's crew (who was beating them even though it was four against one).
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* GrannyClassic: Granny Reid, who was Savannah's real maternal figure growing up: kind and selfless, an amazing cook, and a giver of great advice. She'll gladly scold one of her grandchildren if they need it, though, and she even got in on the action once by tasing tasering a man that got into a fight with Savannah's crew (who was beating them even though it was four against one).
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* GreenEyedMonster: Though Savannah and Dirk aren't a couple, Savannah finds herself jealous at times when she thinks there might be another woman (and then she notices that she thought "''other'' woman" as if she and Dirk ''were'' a couple.)
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* GreenEyedMonster: Though Savannah and Dirk aren't a couple, couple [[spoiler:for the first dozen or so books]], Savannah finds herself jealous at times when she thinks there might be another woman (and then she notices that she thought "''other'' woman" as if she and Dirk ''were'' a couple.)
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* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: True for some characters.
* HiddenWire: Used quite a bit... Ryan and Gibson's are better than Dirk's, though. Dirk's actually shocks Tammy once.
* HiddenWire: Used quite a bit... Ryan and Gibson's are better than Dirk's, though. Dirk's actually shocks Tammy once.
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* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: True for some characters.
characters and noted by Savannah.
* HiddenWire: Used quite abit... bit. Ryan and Gibson's are better than Dirk's, though. though: Dirk's actually shocks Tammy once.
* HiddenWire: Used quite a
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** In ''Killer Gourmet'', Dirk asks Savannah if she wants to join him in question people in the interrogation room. Her response is, "Does Victoria's Secret have fancy bloomers?"
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** In ''Killer Gourmet'', Dirk asks Savannah if she wants to join him in question questioning people in the interrogation room. Her response is, "Does Victoria's Secret have fancy bloomers?"
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* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:''Bitter Sweets.'']]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Titus Dunn, killer cop ''and'' cop killer.]]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Titus Dunn, killer cop ''and'' cop killer.]]
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* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Happens in [[spoiler:''Bitter Sweets.'']]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:TitusDunn, Dunn]], killer cop ''and'' cop killer.]]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Titus
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--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nooooobody knooooows de trouble I see...]]
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--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) ♪ [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nooooobody knooooows Nobody knows de trouble I see...]]]] ♫
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* LostWeddingRing: [[spoiler: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.]]
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* LostWeddingRing: [[spoiler:At Savannah's At [[spoiler:Savannah's]] second attempt at a wedding day, one of her sisters accidentally throws out the groom's ring, requiring Savannah the bride 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.]]
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:When Savannah is shot, she looks at her wound, and tells the guy that he's ruined her grandmother's nightgown. Not to sound tough or anything - she's genuinely upset about it and reacts to that before her injury.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: 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.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: 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.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:When Savannah When [[spoiler:Savannah is shot, shot]], she looks at her wound, and tells the guy that he's ruined her grandmother's nightgown. Not to sound tough or anything - she's genuinely upset about it and reacts to that before her injury.]]
injury.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: 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. Another is in ''Every Body On Deck'', when the murder is made to look like a car accident on a bad road.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: 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. Another is in ''Every Body On Deck'', when the murder is made to look like a car accident on a bad road.
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* MeaningfulName: 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).
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* MarriedAtSea: [[spoiler:Tammy and Waycross get married on a cruise ship]] at the end of ''Every Body On Deck'' as their baby is born.
* MeaningfulName: Anthony Villa (rich owner of a vineyard), Barbara "Barbie" Matthews (several-time beauty pageant winner), Tammy Hart (one of the most gentle and kindhearted people Savannah knows).
* MeaningfulName: Anthony Villa (rich owner of a vineyard), Barbara "Barbie" Matthews (several-time beauty pageant winner), Tammy Hart (one of the most gentle and kindhearted people Savannah knows).
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* MomentKiller: [[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.]]
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* MomentKiller: [[spoiler:During At the end of ''A Decadent Way To Die'', [[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.]]
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* MurdererPOV: Happens several times, but always keeps the murderer's identity a secret.
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* MurdererPOV: Happens several times, especially earlier in the series, but always keeps the murderer's identity a secret.
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* OldDog: [[StockAnimalName Colonel Beauregard]].
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* OldDog: [[StockAnimalName Colonel Beauregard]].Beauregard]], Granny's old hound.
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* PunBasedTitle: Every title (well, up until they started becoming "Killer ___") is a pun that has to do with food. ''Just Desserts'', ''Cooked Goose'', ''Corpse Suzette'', ''Death by Chocolate'', ''Cereal Killer''.... to name a few.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Gibson.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Gibson.
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* PunBasedTitle: Every title (well, up until they started becoming "Killer ___") is a pun one, and most are puns that has have to do with food. ''Just Desserts'', ''Cooked Goose'', ''Corpse Suzette'', ''Death by Chocolate'', ''Cereal Killer''.... to name a few.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman:Gibson.Gibson, described as such word-for-word a few times.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman:
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* RearWindowInvestigation: 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".
* [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade]]: [[spoiler:At the end of ''A Decadent Way to Die'', Dirk admits his love to Savannah and proposes to her. She says yes.]]
* [[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade]]: [[spoiler:At the end of ''A Decadent Way to Die'', Dirk admits his love to Savannah and proposes to her. She says yes.]]
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* RearWindowInvestigation: 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".
truth", or claims that it's all in how you phrase it.
*[[spoiler:RelationshipUpgrade]]: [[spoiler:At RelationshipUpgrade:
** At the end of ''A Decadent Way to Die'',Dirk [[spoiler:Dirk admits his love to Savannah and proposes to her. She says yes.]]
** [[spoiler:Tammy and Waycross]] announce their engagement at the end of ''Killer Gourmet'', and [[spoiler:they get married as their baby is born in the next book.]]
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** At the end of ''A Decadent Way to Die'',
** [[spoiler:Tammy and Waycross]] announce their engagement at the end of ''Killer Gourmet'', and [[spoiler:they get married as their baby is born in the next book.]]
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* [[SaveTheVillain 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.
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* [[SaveTheVillain Save The Archenemy]] In SaveTheVillain: Well, it's archenemy, not villain, but 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 Savannah steps in - but she lets Dirk know that he owes her ''big'' time.
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* SympatheticMurderer: Notably [[spoiler:Sydney in ''Death by Chocolate''.]]
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* SympatheticMurderer: Notably [[spoiler:Sydney [[spoiler:Sydney]] in ''Death by Chocolate''.]]
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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.]]
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** [[spoiler:Anthony Villa Villa]] in ''Sour Grapes'']] 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.]]
* TilMurderDoUsPart: Occurs several times in the books.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: With Savannah, it's snakes. With Dirk, it's heights... and chickens.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: With Savannah, it's snakes.snakes and especially spiders. With Dirk, it's heights... and chickens.