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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Review originally published at http://www0.epinions.com/review/Metro_Girl_by_Janet_Evanovich/content_460158176900</em><br/><br/>Janet Evanovich is probably best known for her numbered series of fluffy mysteries featuring Jersey girl Stephanie Plum.  After ripping through all eighteen of those books in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45560040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Metro Girl was a mystery that turned out to be a comedy at the same time. It's about a woman named Alexandra Barnaby who is in search of her lost brother, Bill. While in her search, she's accompanied by an arrogant, egotistic, and at the samae time Handsome race car driver in search of his missing b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43929682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while waiting for <em>Lean Mean 13</em> to become available at my local library. I was disappointed to find that the characters and premise were very similar to the <em>Stephanie Plum</em> series; I would go so far as to say that <em>Metro Girl</em> is just Plum-lite, the only difference being that while I love St...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5978755">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is on the low end of a three for me. I can't justify giving it only 2 stars, because it did keep me entertained while I read it- some parts were just laugh-out-loud funny- but the story just lacking. I find it impossible to believe that anyone as hard core as the bad guys sent after them a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68000875">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn’t decide if this book read like a 15 year old wrote it or if it was intended for a 15 year old to read.  It was very light, but too unrealistic to be taken seriously.  Barney’s (a girl) brother is kidnapped, so she takes off in search of him and at the same time ends up hooking up with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52113939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Buckle your seat belts. Number one <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author, <strong>Janet Evanovich, </strong> 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. <p>&quot;Wild&quot; 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. <p> 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. <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Wild Bill's &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. <p> 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.</p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't finish this book. I'm a big fan of the Stephanie Plum series and maybe my expectations were set too high, but I thought Metro Girl was too fluffy. I had no desire to stick with it and wished Evanovich would simply get back to her primary series.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this novel!! Full of humour like Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I'm anxious to read the sequel to this titled &quot;Motor Mouth&quot;!<br/><br/>From cover:<br/><br/>&quot;Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby broth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49827134">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plumb series years ago and have been a loyal reader ever since. When I found that she had another series, I picked up this fist book with great anticipation. I was not disappointed.<br/><br/>While not nearly as tongue-in-cheek as the beloved but cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57014026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, I love this book!!!!! I sat up the first night until almost 3 &amp; laughed until I cried &amp; tears were spattering on the pages of the book. Have you ever laughed until you can't breathe &amp; think you're going to die? And then, because it's late at night, you can't laugh very loud because you're smothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20509335">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, &quot;Wild&quot; 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. </p> <p> Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has &quot;borrowed&quot; 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. </p> <p> 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. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this after I read the second Barnaby novel (Motor Mouth) and in the middle of my Stephanie Plum obsession last summer.  The story really moves, and I do appreciate Barnaby as a stronger female character then Stephanie Plum.  The story has the same characteristics as a Numbers book, but not as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18989423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Alex Barnaby - Barney to family and friends - heads to Miami after receiving a frightening phone call from her little brother, Bill. When she arrives at Bill's apartment, it's been trashed and a man with a fake eye tries to kidnap her. If that isn't bad enough, it seems Bill has disappeared with NAS...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14192695">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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