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Alex Barnaby
Series · 4 books · 2004-2010

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#1

Metro Girl

2004

Buckle your seat belts. Number one New York Times bestselling author, Janet Evanovich, is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who’s along for the ride. "Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big sister Alex heads for Miami, Bill's last known sighting, on a harrowing hunt to save her brother ... and maybe the world. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since they were kids. Not that Bill's a bad sort. More that he acts first and thinks later. Unfortunately, this time around, Wild Bill will be Dead Bill if Alex doesn't find him in time. Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Engaged in a deadly race, Wild Bill's "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 Alex and maybe run into Bill. Maybe Hooker can salvage what's left of his vacation. And maybe Hooker'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. After all, Hooker is NASCAR Guy. And NASCAR Guy is good at revving a woman’s engine. The race to the finish is hot and hard, taking Alex and Hooker into international waters, exposing a plot to grab Cuban gold and a sinister relic of the Cuban missile crises.Creative cussing and sexual innuendo included.
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#2

Motor Mouth

2006

Barney is a woman with a taste for speed, talent for breaking rules, and knows too much about cheating. First there was boyfriend NASCAR racer Hooker and a salesclerk. Now an unlikely winner has to be cheating. Another spotter calls for help, trapped. Their drooling St Bernard leaves his teeth marks in a corpse. They are on the run, suspected of murder.
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#3

Troublemaker

2007

Janet Evanovich's first foray into the world of graphic novels brought her prose characters Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker from the hit Barnaby series (Metro Girl and Motor Mouth) to living color. Now the complete story from Troublemaker Book 1 and Book 2 is collected into one beautiful, softcover edition! Barnaby and Hooker are together again and fighting crime, leaving a trail of chaos, panic, and disorder in their wake. Some would say they were drawn towards trouble like a moth to a flame. Others would claim friends, Rosa and Felicia, dump trouble in Barnaby and Hooker's lap. Either way, they're in over their heads when Rosa is kidnapped and her disappearance is linked to a dangerous Voodoo priest and his search for a mystery-drenched stolen statue. Written by Janet and Alex Evanovich, and illustrated by Joelle Jones (Dr. Horrible, Token), Troublemaker brings ultimate adventure set in sun-filled Miami.
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#4

Troublemaker 2

2010

NASCAR spotter Alex, her boyfriend driver Hooker, cigar-rollers Rosa, Felicia, their boss Percy, Beans the St. Bernard, miss Hooker's boat, taken by black magic voodoo priest Nitro. He wants wooden statue of Baron Samedi in skull under top hat and tails. Ransom notes, snakes, live chicken in car—only safe place for Baron is with Candace, Hooker's mom.

Authors

Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich
Author · 85 books
Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Trouble Maker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author, as well as the Fox and O'Hare series with co-author Lee Goldberg.
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