Hooked Up
(Stock Car Racing Mysteries)
Book 2
Published by Midnight Ink (January 8, 2008)
An Imprint of Llewellyn Publications
Cover Design by Kevin R. Brown
288 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0738711102
Glad and Ruby are back and Ruby’s parents are going with them to the Monster Mile in Dover, Delaware. Ruby and her mom are traveling in one RV and Glad and Zeke are in another. They arrive at the campground and Glad is shocked when he finds a strange man in his bed wearing his pajamas. Ruby quickly tries to defuse the situation by explaining that they picked up the man and his cat hitchhiking along the road. Glad is not happy but what can he do? While they are discussing the situation the man has disappeared from the bedroom but has left behind his cat.
Then there is a commotion on the track. Someone has fallen from the Monster Bridge onto the raceway. Glad and Ruby follow the crowd and Ruby soon identifies the victim as her hitchhiker. We soon learn that the man is the twin brother of the man who owns the nearby Casino and Hotel. The rumors start to circle the track that there was a story of 10 million dollars disappearing some years back and the casino owner was involved.
Ruby starts to jump to some conclusions and thinks because of their past success they need to investigate even after the local police have classified the death as a suicide. Glad wants to sit back and enjoy the race festivities but he can’t let Ruby race off by herself. They are again chasing down the crooks when all Glad wants to see which drivers make the chase.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Another trip to the Winner’s Circle for Joyce and Jim Lavene!
I am so happy my favorite NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth made this installment. Glad is a Joe Nemecheck fan and Ruby cheers for Jimmy Johnson. Ruby and I would probably come to blows over our drivers. Johnson is boo’d regularly and heavily this house.
I also need to say that Zeke coming to the racetrack in this story put a huge smile on my face. Now if Ruby’s mom would just call Glad by his name instead of “Ruby’s husband”. You will notice in both my reviews I have not used Ruby’s mom, Zeke’s wife or Glad’s mother-in-law’s name. 🙂
Both of the Stock Car Mysteries are full with track details including Glad and Ruby’s Track Logs. The settings are described perfectly, you feel like you are out to the track. I am really sad there was not more installments in this series. It would be great fun to travel around the country with Glad and Ruby. Keeping my fingers crossed The Lavene’s have more of these stories under the hood. Hooked Up 
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