Alexandra Barnaby is NASCAR driver and Sam Hooker's raceday spotter get involved in a lot during racing. A stolen racecar hauler, a kidnapped Saint Bernard, a bizarre murder, some restless nights under the covers with Hooker, and a reunion with super cigar roller Rosa Florez and the queen of wholesale fruit Felicia Ibarra.

Humor and suspense all through this story that made me listen to the end.

From Miami, Florida to Concord, North Carolina and back to Miami this is an action-packed multi-car crash of shady dealings, stolen technology, drive-thru windows and destruction of personal property.

Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby received a disturbing call from her brother, 'Wild Bill', in Miami, Florida that ended with a woman's scream. She flew to Miami to help her brother and met Sam Hooker, a famous NASCAR driver. Barney's brother, Bill, had stolen Hooker's boat. They work together to find Barney's brother and Hooker's boat in a harrowing adventure that is filled with danger, bad guys, and plenty of action while trying to save the good guys. The story is filled with humorous character.

I do like this series. I have to confess it has a familiar feel to it like some of her other series. It resonates some of the stephanie plum vibe to me as well. Regardless, I do enjoy the characters and the flow of the works. I like how Alex is written and how she interacts with the other characters. It is a nice relationship with the reader and feels comfortable. I will definitely be reading more of this series.

It was ok still had it's funny moments but had lots I stupid moves that a person wouldn't do.

Fast paced, commmensurate with the NASCAR theme of the book. So fast paced you don't have time to recognize the ludicrousness of the events that happen one after the other. But Ms. Evanovich wit is just as fast, and I did enjoy that. And the teasingly sexy parts that never get to fulfillment. A quick light read with some chuckles.

Ok, so I didn't give up on Alex. Janet seems to have figured her out some, so I like Alex even better this time around, although I still have some beef with her. I don't find Alex's new career in NASCAR particularly plausible at all, for example. Surprising even me, Stephanie's transition to bondswoman makes more sense than Alex's engineering background turning her into a internationally-recognized racecar spotter. While I do appreciate the back-and-forth between Alex and her sometimes-boyfriend, Hooker, you could argue that Alex only got her job because she was sleeping with Hooker (who was introduced in the last book and is her BOSS). Just because a woman may have a job a man usually has, doesn't necessarily make her a feminist, Janet!

I’m getting used to this narrator now. She does do a good job with the variety of voices. How could I not love a book that has a St Bernard as one of the main characters?! This author does such a great job endearing the characters. You can help but root on their ridiculous antics. Good fun.

We return to the world of Alex Barnaby to find that she dated and dumped Hooker for cheating on her between books, and she's currently working on his race team as a spotter. There's a cheating scandal on the track, too, which leads to an abundance of shenanigans and wacky plot twists. The plot is quick moving and filled with the fun writing style and witty banter that is common throughout Janet Evanovich's books. The mechanism for the track cheating was interesting, and it gave an opportunity to showcase Barney's skills with the cars, the tech, and the sport of racing. This one was funnier than the first in the series, as long as you're able to set aside how unrealistic some of the plot points are. Hooker continues to be a pest, but I'm more annoyed by him than Barney is.

This had been sitting on the pile for a while, and whilst it was fine, I didn't love it. I think, basically, I'm not a huge an of Barney and Hooker. He's got all the worst bits of Morelli but without some of the redeeming features and that puts a real crimp on things for me. The mystery is nuts, but in that Evanovich kinda way that you don't really mind if it's rattling along and enough fun that you don't think too hard about it, but it's not always doing that as well as some of the others do. Hey ho. Win some lose some.

Barnaby and Hooker are back in a new adventure. When a friend calls Barnaby for help, asking to be rescued after he hides out in a racing opponent's trailer hauling racecars to Mexico, they discover a dead body. As well, somewhere in the racecar is a computer chip that helps cheat during a race. Barnaby and Hooker's attempts to get out of the mess they find themselves in only digs them deeper, and now people want them dead.

This was much more interesting and faster paced than book 1. Though the sexual repartee between the two was more tolerable since they were actually involved after the first book, I still found it irritating that Hooker can't take "no" for an answer. There were a lot more laughs for me in this one, and it was well on the way to a round up from a 3.5, but the ending fell flat. So my rating is 3.5 but rounded down.

These books are so much fun! Like Agnes and the Hitman,or Toni McGee Causey's "Bobbie Faye" books. Love the comedy of errors! I only wish there were more in the series. I'd like to read the "Troublemaker" volumes, but I'm really not into graphic novels/comic books- I don't have the patience to read/look at all of that action.

Another great Barnaby mystery.