Dixie Flannigan - Chris Rogers torrent

Category: Thriller
Language: EnglishKeywords: dixie flannigan

Written by Chris Rogers
Read by Peggity Price

DF01 - Bitch Factor(1998)

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.

DF02 - Rage Factor

A lot of the fun and energy in Bitch Factor, Chris Rogers’s first book about Texas prosecutor-turned-bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan, came from Dixie’s unabashed audacity and attitude. She’s so fed up with watching bad guys get off easy that she’s shaved down her career to only catching them, and letting other people worry about punishing them. This simplicity of purpose also keeps Dixie’s return on track, even as the events swirling around her become a lot more complicated.

How could a jury actually find a sadistic rapist named Lawrence Coombs not guilty? That’s what Dixie–who broke her ankle bringing Coombs in–wants to know. But she gets over her disappointment and on with her work (guarding a stalker’s potential victim) and her life (involving a relationship with a man she arrested on her first outing). Then a vigilante group of women, who call themselves the Avenging Angels, viciously beat up Coombs, and he mistakenly blames Dixie for the attack. So on top of everything else she has to deal with are his absolutely terrifying attempts at revenge. A lesser woman, and a less cocksure writer, might not handle these complications well. But Dixie and her creator are more than equal to the challenge.

DF03 - Chill Factor

Former prosecutor Dixie Flannigan is fearless when it comes to facing down lowlifes and bail jumpers. But she’d rather wrestle the meanest snake in a Texas bayou than balance her own checkbook. So when, during a stakeout, Dixie learns that a sizable sum of cash is missing from her account, she makes sure her quarry is in cuffs and then heads for her local bank…only to find herself in the middle of a holdup carried out by a most unlikely robber.

Pointing a .38 at the terrified teller is a middle-aged woman with a pleasant–and shockingly familiar–face. And Dixie can only watch in disbelief as Edna Pine, the neighbor she loves like family, makes off with three bags of stolen loot.

No way could the kind, gentle, thoughtful soul Dixie knows as Aunt Edna turn into a gun-wielding bank robber. Yet the situation becomes even more surreal when Edna leads cops on a high-speed chase that ends in a violent shoot-out. Suddenly Edna is dead, the money has vanished, and the police have dubbed Edna the latest in a string of “granny bandits.”

Now, dogged by guilt at not doing more to stop her, and pressured by Edna’s son to uncover the desperate emotions that led the comfortably well-off widow to her terrible end, Dixie sets aside her personal problems–from the uncertain state of her finances to the rocky state of her love life–to dig for the truth. Soon Dixie is on the trail of a master manipulator who has set in motion a devastating plot. And she’s about to discover the ice-cold lesson that a smile is the most chilling weapon of all….