History Literature / TheSavannahReidMysteries

* 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.

* 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.

# 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

* 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.]]

* 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]].

--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) ♪ [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nobody knows de trouble I see...]] ♫

* 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.)

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: If you're bribing Savannah, or she's bribing someone else, expect the price to be a box of Godiva chocolates.

* 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]].

* 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''.]]

* 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".

* 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.

"Okay, you boys were right. There ain't no weapons here."

* 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).

* 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.)

* 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.

** 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?"

* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:''Bitter Sweets.'']]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Titus Dunn, killer cop ''and'' cop killer.]]

--->'''Waycross:''' (singing) [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nooooobody knooooows de trouble I see...]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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).

* 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.]]

* MurdererPOV: Happens several times, but always keeps the murderer's identity a secret.

* OldDog: [[StockAnimalName Colonel Beauregard]].

* 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.

* 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.]]

* [[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.

* SympatheticMurderer: Notably [[spoiler:Sydney in ''Death by Chocolate''.]]

** [[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.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: With Savannah, it's snakes. With Dirk, it's heights... and chickens.