Stripper!

A Natalie McMasters Novel

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Pub Date 15 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 6 Mar 2020

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Description

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached!), way cute, and a pre-law student at State. She's also straight, or at least she thinks so. To put herself through school, she's moonlighting as a private detective trainee at her uncle Amos Murdoch's 3M Detective Agency, where the most exciting thing she does is sit in a car. After she directly confronts a subject on a stakeout, Amos fires her for taking too many chances. Then she meets another student who bears an uncanny resemblance to her, and everything in her life changes.

When her new best friend is brutally murdered and Amos is critically injured, Nattie immerses herself in the seamy world of web cams and strip clubs to hunt the killer. Her investigation forces her to reassess many of the ideas that she’s lived by her whole life and do things she’s never considered before – strip on a stage, question her sexuality, and rediscover the meaning of love itself.

Nattie eventually exposes a drug ring, police corruption, and an assassin-for-hire online. Then she stumbles upon the true face of evil, and her encounter does not leave her unscathed…

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached!), way cute, and a pre-law student at State. She's also straight, or at least she thinks so. To put herself through school, she's...


Advance Praise

Excellent crime/mystery story, kept me turning the pages. Burns has created a fascinating lead character--Nattie McMasters.

She's young, sexy and courageous. That makes her a tough cookie but her weaknesses make her so much more interesting. She's hard-headed, naive and sexually-conflicted. The story is written in first person, so the reader gets to see Nattie's point of view as she throws herself into a seedy world to solve a murder. I felt intrigued and entertained by this story and Nattie's tendency to put herself in danger. She's an inspiring combination of capability and vulnerability, with a large dose of sex appeal thrown in. Craig Chapman, author of Battle-Hardened

Excellent crime/mystery story, kept me turning the pages. Burns has created a fascinating lead character--Nattie McMasters.

She's young, sexy and courageous. That makes her a tough cookie but her...


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Stripper by Thomas A Burns jr.
A very good read. Likeable story and characters. This is my first book by this author. A good pageturner. 4*.

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Very entertaining book with lots of action and great characters. I really like the main character's moral compass, but there is just too much stupidity for the book to be top notch.

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I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

An old story kept fresh by good character development, action and multiple plots threaded together almost seamlessly.

I usually read female authors as I find female characters are a bit more believable at their hands and the sex is not (usually as much) gratuitous.

This story -written by a male author - has a young college student working her way through school by traing as a PI. Natalie goes under cover and discovers a dark, seedy side of life. She makes friends who lead her further into the mystery/case she is working on. Natalie learns quite a bit about loyalty, curiosity, sexuality.

I look forward to the next installment.

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A sincere thank you to the publisher, author and Netgalley for providing me an ebook copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. I enjoyed this story very much and felt like I knew each character personally due to the description of them. I enjoyed the storyline. This is not my usual genre but in this instance I am extremely pleased and grateful for opening up my mind to something totally different. Thanks again.

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Stripper is the first book in the Natalie McMasters series and the debut novel for Thomas A. Burns. Stripper is a captivating suspense novel about a twenty-something pre-law college student, Natalie McMasters that works part-time for her Uncle Amos’ detective agency, 3M Detective Agency. Everything is somewhat typical for Natalie until she meets a classmate name Becca, that could be her twin. However, Becca isn’t your average college student; she lives in luxury townhouse and drives an expensive sports car. Becca quickly informs Natalie that she is an online stripper, and she wants Natalie to join her. Before Natalie could decided, Becca ends up dead as Natalie investigates Becca’s murder, her Uncle Amos to shot. Natalie is determined to find the killer; however, it may cost her life.

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The title and cover of this book is quite misleading. It's a great book telling the take of a student called Natalie whose friend is murdered. She works part time in a detective agency and so with the death of her friend she embarks upon a trail of investigation. Her friend worked in the internet sex trade, so the sex trade is the focus of her enquiries. She encounters strip clubs, web cams and she herself becomes employed in the heart of this seedy industry. She uncovers all sorts of corruption along her path while questioning her own choices and values along the way. This is a great read. It certainly won't disappoint.

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