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Title: Mrs. Million
Author: Pete Hautman
Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-28-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A lottery jackpot winner decides to turn one of her millions into a bounty for the man who left her. Barbara Annette is decorating a cake when the Powerball numbers come in. They sound suspiciously familiar, but she finishes the cake before checking her ticket, knowing that if she wins her hands will be too shaky to handle the icing. This quiet Midwesterner has just won nine million dollars - and nine million kinds of trouble to go with it. Accepting her money on national television, Barbara Annette promises a cool million to anyone who can bring her runaway husband home to her. When he hears of the reward placed for his return, Bobby decides to claim it himself - but first, he's got to get past a pair of bounty hunters, a psychotic pretty-boy, and a lovelorn humanities professor who won't take no for an answer. Getting her husband home safe will be tougher than winning the lottery. Whether Barbara Annette will want him when he gets there is another question altogether.
Members Reviews:
The Adventures of Barbaraanette and Bobby - Not to be missed!!
The more I read this story, the more I thought of the movie, Fargo. The plots are similar only in that a lot of unintended things occur to some very interesting characters, but it had the same feeling.
Barbaraannette Quinn is Mrs. Million. In fact, as the newest winner of the Minnesota Powerball lottery she is nearly Mrs. Ten Million. One of three sisters, all of whom live in Cold Rock, Minnesota, B.A has decided to use some of the winnings from the lottery to find her missing husband. He departed town on a sudden fishing trip six years ago with some money he had taken from two friends who expected him to use it in a real estate deal. For some reason Barbaraannette cannot shake his memory and offers a reward of one million dollars to whomever can bring her husband home.
That's when the fun begins. Bobby has found his way to Tucson selling cowboy boots at Wally Wenger's Westernwear Warehouse and has set up housekeeping with Phlox, a dealer at the Desert Diamond Casino. They see the news story of B.A. making the offer and before too much dust settles they are on their way to Minnesota with plans to acccept the reward.
A million gets everyone's attention in Cold Rock and as Phlox and Bobby arrive there, other forces enter the story and Bobby is kidnapped by a very odd couple who plan to claim the reward. Those whom he swindled six years before are aware of his presense and have their own ideas about the matter. B.A. oldest sister, Mary Beth thinks the whole idea is ridiculous and is trying to cancel the whole reward idea. Add to that B.A.'s Alzheimer afflicted mother who keeps escaping from her nursing home, a local banker who has loved B.A. since high school and a few other assorted folks from Cold Rock and you have one heckuva entertaining book.
Hauptman has a way with words and descriptions and he brings it all to bear in Mrs. Million. It would make a fun movie.
The professor has a mean streak
Sam O'Gara appears in most of Hautman's novels. In this one he gets a bare mention. He's the father of Barbaraannette Quinn, who wins the lottery and decides to spend a million of it trying to win her husband Bobby back. He absconded six years before and she's never gotten over the good-looking devil.
Bobby, along with his girlfriend, Phlox, sees her offer on TV.
