Metro Girl

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A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea

Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.

Too bad for Barney—she’s wrong about the getting worse part. Enter Sam Hooker. Somebody’s stolen his boat and the trail leads to—you guessed it—Wild Bill. Hooker decides to follow Barney and see if she can lead him to his boat.

In the world of Evanovich, Sam Hooker and Alexandra Barnaby, in their quest to reclaim what’s theirs, blast through Florida from Daytona straight on to Key West, exposing a plot to grab Cuban land and to lay waste the people involved. Cussing and tasteless sexual innuendo included.

Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who’s good at revving a woman's engine.

Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset…just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Barney and maybe run into scumbag Bill. And better yet, maybe he'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister.

The pedal will have to go to metal if Barney and Hooker want to be the first to cross the finish line, save Bill, Hooker's boat…and maybe the world.

“Cracking fun.” “A fast, crisp book.” “A mysterious romp involving cold-blooded murder and a sexy NASCAR driver.” “Clever, approachable characters.” “A spunky heroine….cheery.” “The characters are breezy and spontaneous….Evanovich’s story has attitude.” “The action is lickety-split” “Barney is Baltimore’s echo of Robert Parker….it’s all about hanging out with Metro Girl and NASCAR Guy.” “Breezy.” “Clever, fast-paced.” “Screwball entertainment.” “A lot of fun.” “A quirky, fast-paced thriller.” “A rib-splitting debut.” “This is a bright and breezy book, and a welcome change for Evanovich fans.” “Sheer comic ingenuity.” “Moves at a breezy pace, engaging the reader…fun in the Florida fast lane.”

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