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Stakeouts and Strollers works really well as a title because it explains the book’s general premise in three words: The protagonist, Charlie Shaw, is a first-time girl dad and rookie private investigator. He’s constantly sleep deprived, a common occurrence for both roles, and he’s fairly clueless at both, at least at first. The reader instantly knows that our hero is juggling new-parent/spousal duties with solving cases. When a teenage runaway named Friday Finley shows up near Charlie’s home in search of her estranged father, the case appeals to Charlie’s newfound sense of “dadness” and triggers some tragic personal memories that he seeks to exorcise by helping this...[read on]
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