Save Me from Dangerous Men: Nikki Griffin Series, Book 1
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"An outstanding debut...If you're a fan of Jack Reacher or Lisbeth Salander, you are gonna love Nikki Griffin." —New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston
"Action packed and razor sharp - Jack Reacher would love Nikki Griffin." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense
Nikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore's shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she also tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to love. And Nikki likes to teach those men a lesson, to teach them what it feels like to be hurt and helpless, so she can be sure that their victims are safe from them forever.
When a regular PI job tailing Karen, a tech company's disgruntled employee who might be selling secrets, turns ugly and Karen's life is threatened, Nikki has to break cover and intervene. Karen tells Nikki that there are people after her. Dangerous men. She says she'll tell Nikki what's really going on. But then something goes wrong, and suddenly Nikki is no longer just solving a case—she's trying hard to stay alive.
Part Lisbeth Salander, part Jack Reacher, part Jessica Jones, Nikki Griffin is a kickass character who readers will root for as she seeks to right the world's wrongs. S.A. Lelchuk's Save Me From Dangerous Men marks the beginning of a gripping new series and the launch of a fabulous new character.
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"An outstanding debut...If you're a fan of Jack Reacher or Lisbeth Salander, you are gonna love Nikki Griffin." —New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston
"Action packed and razor sharp - Jack Reacher would love Nikki Griffin." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense
Nikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore's shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she also tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to love. And Nikki likes to teach those men a lesson, to teach them what it feels like to be hurt and helpless, so she can be sure that their victims are safe from them forever.
When a regular PI job tailing Karen, a tech company's disgruntled employee who might be selling secrets, turns ugly and Karen's life is threatened, Nikki has to break cover and intervene. Karen tells Nikki that there are people after her. Dangerous men. She says she'll tell Nikki what's really going on. But then something goes wrong, and suddenly Nikki is no longer just solving a case—she's trying hard to stay alive.
Part Lisbeth Salander, part Jack Reacher, part Jessica Jones, Nikki Griffin is a kickass character who readers will root for as she seeks to right the world's wrongs. S.A. Lelchuk's Save Me From Dangerous Men marks the beginning of a gripping new series and the launch of a fabulous new character.- seriesId
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Starred review from April 15, 2019
First-novelist Lelchuk's main character, Nikki Griffin, is cut somewhat from the same cloth as Thackeray's Becky Sharp. She is a young woman who knows what she wants out of life and thinks she knows how to get it. Except that instead of money and favor, she seeks revenge. Nikki was adopted by a librarian after her parents were murdered, and found solace between the covers of an extraordinary range of books. After college, she opened a bookstore, and her exchanges with her customers are the stuff that superb readers' advisory is made of. She genuinely enjoys this part of her life, even though it exists as a front for her private-investigation work, which consists mainly of tracking down men who hurt women and showing them what it feels like to be hurt and helpless. Dangerous men. It gets nasty. Nikki is a dangerous woman, sort of a Lisbeth Salander, but with a lot more heart. When she takes a legitimate (paying) case to maintain her cover, she finds there is more involved than a tech company's disgruntled employee selling off top-secret code. Soon enough, the case turns deadly, and Lelchuk takes readers on a rock-'em-sock-'em motorcycle ride to a surprising conclusion. Along with the action, this outstanding series debut boasts a well-developed supporting cast whose interactions with Nikki make her bookstore as inviting as Louise Penny's Three Pines bistro.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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Meet brainy bookshop owner, private investigator, and part-time vigilante Nikki Griffin.Thirty-three-year-old Nikki adores motorcycles--and books. In fact, she owns a quaint little bookstore in Berkley called The Brimstone Magpie. She's also a private eye who takes on the usual cases, such as infidelity, and a former first responder who would meet victims of domestic violence at the scene of the crime, no matter where. Now she has an interesting side hobby: Word of mouth has established her as the person to see if you're a woman being abused. Nikki's happy to pay a free visit to your abuser for a calm discussion about the situation. Actually...not so much. Nikki's visits involve physical violence, but just enough to teach the perpetrator a potent lesson, and these are the kind of guys who would sooner lose a limb than go to law enforcement and admit that a girl got the drop on them. For Nikki, this isn't just about dispensing a satisfying kind of justice--it satisfies violent urges she's had since suffering a horrific childhood tragedy that led her beloved younger brother, Brandon, into a life of addiction. Nikki's extracurriculars can get in the way of her love life, but she seems resigned to that until she meets Ethan, whose sweet demeanor has her immediately hooked. One day she's approached by Gregg Gunn, CEO of Care4, a child care tech company, who offers her $20,000 to follow Karen Li, an employee supposedly engaged in corporate espionage. Nikki gets one glimpse at Karen and smells a rat. It's soon obvious that Karen is wrapped up in something much more dangerous than stealing company secrets, setting Nikki on a collision course with some very bad guys--good thing she's more than up to the task. Nikki's fight scenes are satisfying, clever, and exciting (because Nikki is clever and exciting), and though it's a crackling thriller, the book also tackles the aftermath of grief, and the scenes between Nikki and the sweet-natured, utterly lost Brandon are heartbreaking. On a lighter note, bookworms will love the references to classic novels, and Lelchuk winks at Nikki's similarities to a certain well-known literary vigilante; a bookshop regular even calls her Lisbeth.A timely and totally badass debut.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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