Metro Girl (Alex Barnaby Series #1) by Janet Evanovich

By Janet Evanovich

Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami seashore scene in sizzling pursuit of her lacking child brother, "Wild" invoice. depart it to the maverick of the relatives to get Barney concerned with high-speed automobile chases, a look for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR motive force who’s strong at revving a woman's engine.

Engaged in a dangerous race, invoice has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just while Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he will connect himself to Barney and perhaps run into scumbag invoice. and higher but, might be he will get fortunate in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister.

The pedal must visit steel if Barney and Hooker are looking to be the 1st to move the end line, keep invoice, Hooker's boat...and possibly the world.

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I slammed into him and bounced back a couple inches. "Jesus Christ," I said, on an intake of breath. " "Cute little blonds wearing pink skirts aren't allowed to take the Lord's name in vain," Hooker said, wrapping his hand around my arm, encouraging me to walk with him. " "I was listening. " He stopped at the empty slip. " "My boat. " "And it's gone. Do you see a boat here? No. Do you know who took it? " The guy was deranged. One too many crashes. NASCAR drivers weren't known for being all that smart to begin with.

Unfortunately, Bill seemed to be gone, too. Probably I should go back and take another look. The voice of reason started yelling at me inside my head. What are you, nuts? Call the police. A crime was committed here. Stay far away. Then the voice of the responsible older sister spoke up. Don't be so cowardly. At least do a walk-through. Bill's not always so smart. Remember the time he "borrowed" Andy Wimmer's classic GTO from the garage so he could take his buddies on a joyride and ended up in jail?

That's not what I was seeing here. I whirled around and flew down the stairs. I was out the door, on the sidewalk in seconds. I stood facing the building, staring up at Bill's apartment, gulping air. This was something that happened in movies. This didn't happen in real life. At least it didn't happen in my real life. I stood there trying to pull myself together, listening to the steady drone of traffic a block away on Fifth. There was no visible activity in the apartment building in front of me.

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