October 1958. Kristin Van Dijk, a private investigator, is twenty-three and a proven asset to Otis Millett, her veteran partner at the Millett Agency in Fort Worth, Texas. She lives above a pool hall, hustles nine ball in her spare time, and has an on-again off-again boyfriend named Lee, a homicide detective for the Dallas PD. When Otis estranged wife, Dixie Logan aka The Dallas Firecracker, as she was known on the Texas striptease circuit, is found murdered it begins an investigation that pairs Kristin and Otis with Lt. Carl Lynch, a straight-arrow homicide detective with the Fort Worth PD. This blending of by the book and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants investigative styles leads to results in spite of itself, bringing Kristin up close and way too personal with a ruthless cop-killing gang of bank robbers and their boss, a dreamy maniac who hears voices. Is it simply greed that leads to a string of murders, including Dixie s? That is the suspicion when it is discovered the money that was taken in the bank heist has disappeared. Who has it? Where did it go? And if not greed, what is the motive for the double-cross that gets Dixie murdered and sends Kristin and Otis across West Texas in pursuit of her killer? Once again bad men learn too late they should take Baby Shark seriously. She s not a girl to be pushed around. Here are the scenes the readers of the Baby Shark series want Kristin one-on-one against nasty men with guns who get taught their manners; criminals who run thinking they can get away; and the surprising twists that keep readers guessing and asking for more. This is fast-paced action-crime-adventure, the satisfying stuff that sets the Baby Shark series apart.
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BABY SHARK S JUGGLERS AT THE BORDER is novel four in the Baby Shark series. Robert Fate has written for network television and feature films. As a Hollywood F/X technician, he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. He is a USMC vet who studied at the Sorbonne in France. He rough-necked in the oilfields of Oklahoma, fashion modeled in NYC, and worked as a chef in Los Angeles. He now writes crime novels. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter, and a passel of pets. Presently, he is dreaming up novel number five, a standalone about a bad man women love.
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Run for the Border,
This review is from: Baby Shark's Jugglers at the Border (Paperback)
Robert Fate's fourth excursion into the fast-paced world of Baby Shark will have you ducking at loud noises, especially gunfire. And there's plenty of it in this page turner, Jugglers at the Border, that starts out with the murder of Otis Millett's estranged wife, Dixie, who spent her good years as a stripper.
Private Detective Millett and his young partner, Kristen Van Dijk, are notified by an old friend of Millett's at the Fort Worth Police Department that Dixie had been murdered. The crime scene is a series of blood splatters, overturned furniture, and yanked out drawers. Somebody was looking for something and it resulted in two deaths at the scene and a trail of blood leading away from the apartment. It looks like Dixie got her man, but he is still on the move. Another killing and some bank robberies connected to them says a gang is involved. In order to flush out these rats, the cops decide they need a little bait. Maybe a long lost niece looking to inherit Dixie's belongings and whatever it is the killer was looking for would be the right cheese. Kristen becomes the tasty little tidbit, but one of the rats not only bites, but he whips his victims. Kristen didn't learn self-defense for nothing and exacts revenge big-time. Then a suave little man in a particularly nice set of threads, Manny Martin, enters the picture, spins a sad tale, and says he can answer all Kristen's questions. But even rats can set traps. The chase continues, taking Kristen and Otis all over Texas in cool old 50's era cars before the final showdown. But after the gunsmoke dies down there is still more to this tale of the famous Texas stripper, known as The Dallas Firecracker, who actually had something to hide, and Otis didn't know about it. This is a fast read, action-packed, with no holds barred. Robert Fate is a master at capturing characters, large and small, making them not only three-dimensional, but flesh and blood. And he can spin a yarn with the best of them, and this is one of the best. Published by Capital Crime Press.
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Baby Shark you're getting old,
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I usually pre-order the Baby Shark books. I really do love the character of Baby Shark. However, it seemed in this book that Robert Fate was getting tired of his character and she was getting soft. It just didn't have the old electricity.
However, I did enjoy the book and I will pre-order the next one.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Merry Chase,
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Baby Shark, Kristin Van Dijk, got her nom de plume by learning from her father to be a top flight pool player. And that talent has played a prominent role in prior novels in the series, but none in the current installment, especially since she became a full-fledge partner as a PI with Otis Millett. They make for a good team, and they combine their seat-of-the-pants talents to pursue an unusual and resourceful maniac.
It begins when Otis is called by Lt. Carl Lynch to visit the morgue to identify his estranged wife, Dixie Logan, known as the Dallas Firecracker in the Texas striptease circuit. Apparently she and a boyfriend were shot by a gang of bank robbers with whom she worked but were conned out of the loot. This leads the pair to work undercover with the Dallas police to find and attempt to capture the gang and their boss, leading to a merry chase and a series of dangerous situations for Kristin. Baby Shark is one tough cookie, a female worthy of James Bond and Mickey Spillane rolled into one woman's curves. She's hard-boiled, but is able to express her feminine attitudes with aplomb and wise-cracks. This latest entry in the series (three novels have preceded "Jugglers") continues an entertaining and well-written string, and it is recommended.
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