Search - Metro Girl (Alex Barnaby, Bk 1)

I didn't enjoy this as much a Stephanie Plum novel, but a fun read just the same. Great for the beach or vacation. Engaging, but not much brain power required.

This book was a lot of fun and had me laughing out loud throughout!

Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby worked in her father's garage during her school years and even drove a race car. She is now employed by an insurance company. After receiving a strange call from her brother with a woman'screams in the background she takes off for Miami to look for her brother.
There she meets "NASCAR Man" who drives for NASCAR and is also looking for her brother as he has taken off with his sixty-five foot Hatteras and sailed away. This becomes involved with Cubans and why they are looking for Barney's brother too.

Stephanie Plum and Alexandra Barnaby are similar characters. I wish Janet Evanovich had tried a bit harder to make them different. At times during my reading I would forget that this wasn't Stephanie. Overall however a very good book with moments of laugh out laughs and on the edge of your seat suspense.

The first in a fun new series by Janet Evanovich. Alexandra Barnaby roars into the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get her 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 dedly race, Bill has borrowed Hooker's boat and sailed off into the sunset, just when Hook has plans forthe boat. Hooker figures he'll attached himself to Alexandra and may run into scumbag Bill, and better yet, maybe he'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister.

If this was taking place in New Jersey you'd be looking for Stephanie Plum and her cast of crazies. Not to worry, Evanovich has supplied a new cast of characters guaranteed to delight.

Great fun, fast paced and witty.

Evanovitch writes about her heroine, Barney Barnaby frantically searching for her missing baby broth who drives on the NASCAR circuit. On the way she becomes involved with Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver. I like everything Janet Evanovich has ever written, kand this is another of her screwball mysteries.

I loved it - Right up there with the Stephanie Plum series

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.

Yet another great read! I couldn't put it down.

I think I had higher expectations of this book. I love Evanovich's Plum books and this book just isn't a Plum book. I tried not to let this sway my judgement of this book but over all it kind of did. I wasn't able to fully get into the characters or the storyline. I think this was my issue, however, not the storyteller. The repetitive referal to Sam as NASCAR Guy kind of irritated me but not enough to stop me from finishing this book. I think over all the book was decent and interesting enough for me to pick up the second in the series.

I think this is the first book I read by Janet Evanovich. I thought it was funny in spots, but I wondered about the situations the characters get into. Yes, I know it's fiction, but a little too over the top in some parts. When I got the next in this series, Motor Mouth, I couldn't even finish reading it because it was so ridiculous.

This was my first Janet Evanovich book and I must say that I loved it! Nice writing style...some parts LOL funny. I can't wait to read her other series.

Fun read.

Enjoyable read. It's fast and witty like most of Evanovich's books. I look forward to more books in this series.

It's Janet! What can I say. Really fun stuff.

Cute story.

Great adventure & lots of laughs!

I really enjoyed this book.

A very good book!