Metro Girl, by Janet Evanovich

Retrieved from: the library
(0060584009), 2004
Suggested by: I cataloged it

Not a Stephanie Plum book. This introduces Alex "Barney" Barnaby, an insurance company employee from Baltimore, who has come to Miami to bail her brother "Wild Bill" out of trouble again, as the good older sister usually does.

The plot revolves around Bill and his new girlfriend taking a boat to Cuba to rescue buried (by her father) treasure. The problem is that there are two other competing factions chasing after Bill, willing to risk the wrath of Barney and NASCAR Man (loosely based on Jeff Gordon?), involved because Bill 'borrowed' his boat for this excursion.

It's a funny book, lightweight enough nearly to float, but containing some laugh-out-loud moments, as any Evanovich book must. While Barney is slightly easier on cars than Stephanie (none explode), she is just as good at blindsiding scary people with appropriately-placed kicks and use of whatever's available to physically intimidate them.

This is not Literature. But it is pretty fun to read.