By Katy Munger
Casey Jones is as tricky as they arrive. She's large, blond and shoots to kill with the easiest of them -- no matter if she does lack an legit P.I. license because of an unlucky interlude at the back of bars. It takes much to faze her...but there are nonetheless a few situations that hit her like a piledriver to the intestine. this is often one among them.Helen McInnes, the sufferer of a terrible crime, slightly escaped together with her lifestyles. Traumatized by way of the adventure, she will now not set foot outdoor her domestic. extra devastated by means of her attacker's acquittal and the nameless threats she starts off to obtain, Helen turns to Casey for aid reclaiming her existence. Leaving Helen with a motley group of bodyguards-including Casey's temperamental boyfriend Burly, her corpulent companion Bobby D., his both rotund paramour Fanny, and a near-comatose puppy named Killer -- Casey heads again to college. yet she's prowling close by Duke collage with a unique type of schooling in brain: person who can assist her unmask a fiend who has been utilizing the campus as his own searching ground...and let her to outlive him while she reveals him
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