Bitch Factor

Amazon.com Review It's not surprising that Dixie Flannigan comes across as 250 pounds of attitude stuffed into a 120-pound package. As a Texas prosecutor turned bounty hunter, Dixie has to intimidate a collection of much larger males into believing she's capable of doing them serious harm if they try to escape her clutches. In her debut thriller, Chris Rogers pushes just hard enough on Dixie's tough-talking image to make her believable, and then drops her into a story where her smartness and humanity become equally important. Transporting an escaped prisoner through a South Dakota snowstorm, Dixie slowly finds herself believing him when he insists that somebody else killed the 11-year-old girl he's accused of running over while drunk. We believe him, too: the wisecracking Dixie isn't the only soft touch in town. From Library Journal Dixie Flannigan is a self-described "bitch," a legend in the jails of Houston, Texas, for her skills at bounty hunting, tracking, and returning the most determined bail jumpers. On Christmas Eve, she's hired to find Parker Dann, a charming alcoholic charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly running down 11-year-old Betsy Keyes as she walked to school. Dixie's search takes her to South Dakota, where she encounters her first blizzard and, unexpectedly, finds herself believing Parker's protests of innocence. When Dixie discovers that Betsy's younger sister was also killed in an "accident," terrible memories of her own childhood surface, threatening to demolish her facade of toughness. This first novel is masterful from beginning to end, and Dixie is the best new heroine to come along in years. Rogers deftly avoids expository traps, allowing Dixie's past to come out gradually as she pursues justice. And how refreshing is Parker, a male character who is warm, caring, honest...and a gourmet cook! Highly recommended to all libraries. -?Laurel A. Wilson, Alexandrian P.L, Mount Vernon, Ind. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Houston Bounty Hunter Dixie Flannigan Is A Legend In The Jails And Courtrooms For Her Combination Of Brains, Cunning, And Macho Style. But She's About To Learn That There Are Limits To Even Her Toughness. Parker Dann, Accused Of Killing A Child In A Drunk-driving Accident, Is A Bail Jumper, Fleeing The Prospect Of A Long Prison Term. Dixie Tracks Dann To The Wilds Of North Dakota And Has Him Safely Cuffed And Shackled In The Back Of Her Mustang, When A Massive Blue Norther Blizzard Hits. It Will Take Every Ounce Of Dixie's Superbitch Abilities To Get Them Back To Texas In One Piece, Preferably Before Her Bitch Facade Cracks...and Before She Starts Believing That Parker Dann--drunk, Child-killer, And Bail Jumper--is Innocent. From The Paperback Edition. Texas bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan goes after a bail jumper on trial for a drunk-driving accident which killed a girl. Dixie tracks him to North Dakota and has him safely cuffed and shackled in the back of her Mustang-- when a blizzard hits. By the author of Rage Factor