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Murder to the Metal

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Ten months ago, Allie Harper—smart, feisty, too broke to get her car fixed—rescued Thomas Bennington III—a hot, blind, college professor—from a crosswalk in her dicey Cleveland neighborhood. When Allie saved Tom and his groceries from traffic, she unwittingly retrieved his winning $550 million MondoMegaJackpot ticket. The payout steered the two of them into a wild dash from romance to mayhem and multiple murders.

Nothing's changed. Sure, Allie and Tom now reside in a rented nine-thousand-square-foot lakeside mansion with a sky-lit shower and breathtakingly high-thread-count sheets. True, Otis Johnson, Allie's deliverer from last summer's would-be-kidnapper, is now their live-in bodyguard and gourmet chef. Yes, Allie's dream of creating the T&A Detective Agency to solve "mysteries of the heart" by using Tom's money, Otis' PI credentials, and Allie's intrepid ... intrepidness ... now has its first case.

That's where the real trouble kicks in.

Lloyd Bunker's obsession with avoiding stoplights has run him and his '67 Pontiac GTO off the road, maybe for keeps. As they race to figure out what happened to Lloyd, T&A recruits Allie's former nemesis, Officer Tony Valerio, plus her best friend and ex-landlady Margo and television reporter Lisa Cole, to help them follow a lethal trail of escalating crimes ranging from scrapping to pushing opioids to multiple murders. It's no longer just about Lloyd.

An assault on the mansion's high-tech security system by a talented hacker signals the presence of a formidable adversary, one with big bucks and a ruthless plan to destroy the lucky couple. As the action ramps up, Allie and Tom are plunged into a high-speed race against danger and death.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 2, 2018
      Set in Cleveland, Ohio, Hogsett’s amusing sequel to 2017’s Too Lucky to Live finds part-time librarian Allie Harper, who does narrative duty, and her companion, Thomas Bennington III, a professor who won a $550 million lottery jackpot in the previous book, ensconced in a rented 9,000 sq. ft. mansion overlooking Lake Erie. What are a newly and wildly rich couple to do? Why not start the T&A Detective Agency? They are handed their first case when Loretta Coates, a librarian friend of Allie’s, asks Allie to find her boyfriend, Lloyd Bunker, who has vanished without a trace, as has his classic 1967 GTO. As Allie and Tom investigate, they discover that Lloyd’s disappearance is connected to a web of other misdeeds that could spell trouble for themselves. A clever explanation for the crimes helps compensate for some lame sleuthing: many of the clues are discovered solely due to happenstance or are laid in place by Cleveland cop Tony Valerio, an unofficial T&A member. Readers who don’t mind slapdash detecting will look forward to spending more time in Allie’s likable company. Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.

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