I liked this story and the characters. It felt like a mix of Stephanie Plum and Jack Daniels. More serious than the Plum novels, yet not as graphic as the Daniels mysteries. I've had it on my TBR shelf for ages from a Half Price Books clearance sale and finally got around to it. It was a quick read and I liked it well enough to look for other books in the series. ( )

Entertaining read (listen). I wasn't sure what to make of this book at first, as one other reviewer mentioned, a kind of serious Stephanie Plum. I think the author could have set up the bounty hunter business better. And there is no explanation of how she managed to catch up and find a car which had a 5 hours head start (she finally manages in South Dakota after chasing from Texas)but, all things being equal it held my interest while spending way too much time trying to plow myself out from under all this damn snow we're having. And so far, 11 hours of listening is no where near enough. Good thing I have about 400 years of listening backed up. ( )

I originally put this on my Recorded Books wishlist after listening to the superbly written Domestic Equalizers. This series is also fabulously narrated by Peggity Price....I wanted to hear more of what she'd voiced and looked her up on the audiobook site and found Chris Rogers and her creation of Dixie Flanagan. YAY! I'm not sure how long it might have taken me to find this fab thriller of a series otherwise. And I'd have missed out on some kind of cool bitch that is Dixie Flanagan.
Now, I say 'bitch' in the best possible way. Dixie is the tough investigator, smart, always gets her bail jumper...her methods are rougher than most and the bail jumpers are the ones calling her 'bitch'. I like her. She doesn't take any crap and she has the best dog, named MUD (Mean Ugly Dog).
The description of the book says that it's clever, funny and entertaining...it is...but it's also a thriller that had me skimming some sections due to the content. There were references of child abuse of the worst kind and I had a difficult time listening to those parts, so skipped them without losing the thread of the story.
I liked watching Dixie in action, especially her run-ins with her quarry, Parker Dann. It was a lot of back and forth sparks, suspicion of each other, and more prickly sparks.
Dixie likes mysteries in her reading, one of her favorite authors is Dick Francis (like me) and her favorite of his books is WHIP HAND (same as me), so that was an endearing aspect.
The suspects were all varied with truly grim motives each and plenty of twisted twists and turns...gripping as hell.
Five gripping as hell (and a dog named MUD) beans..... ( )

Good series, really too bad she lost her publisher ( )