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Do you want women to do the rescuing? Are you craving a strong, independent heroine who can save herself? Did you love Killing Eve?
Then this book is for you.
Nikki Griffin is Villanelle - but she's on your side.
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Bookseller by day. Bad ass by night.

Nikki Griffin…

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1 author picked Save Me from Dangerous Men as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was shocked when I realized S.A. Lelchuck was male.

Nikki Griffin, a hardnosed San Francisco detective slash bookstore owner, is such a dynamic, fleshed-out female character I just assumed she’d been penned by a woman. Well, you know what they say about assuming. Nikki is a kick butt, take no prisoner’s PI with an agenda.

Like the PIs in the books above, she veers onto the wrong side of the tracks often. Actually, she jumps over them and runs along the wrong side of the tracks while brandishing brass knuckles and a baton.

Even when she’s breaking the law,…

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