Stephanie Plum, the trash-talking New Jersey bail bondswoman of this popular series, is tracking Maxine Nowicki, who's wanted for skipping out on a car-theft charge lodged by her ex-boyfriend. Now the ex-boyfriend's very interested in getting back the love letters he supposedly wrote to Maxine. But what he's really looking for is the secret on which Evanovich hangs her screwball cast of colorful minor characters, including Sally Sweet, a cross-dressing drag queen; Lula, the 250-pound ex-hooker who works for Steph's boss; Cousin Vinnie, the bail bondsman; Grandma Mazur, who packs a Glock and is always looking for a little action; and Joyce, a wannabe bounty hunter who's been cramping Steph's style since she played pass the salami with Steph's ex-husband. The action doesn't get much farther from Trenton than the Jersey Shore, but when Steph's apartment and car are blown up by the others on Maxine's trail and she moves in with Joe Morelli, the handsome, arrogant cop she's been hung up on since high school, it gets hotter than the craps table in Atlantic City. Plum's fans won't be disappointed in this fourth outing in the series, and they're likely to be even more interested in the snappy patter and sexy shenanigans than in the mystery that holds it all together. --Jane Adams

This is the fourth book in the Stephanie Plum series. I really like Morelli, but I know either he's about to do something stupid in the next book or two, or Ranger is about to do something droolworthy, because aliances are about to shift. (Hey, I was spoiled, you get spoiled too. Though I don't really know enough to spoil anyone.)

The only thing I don't like about the Stephanie Plum series is all the running around looking for people. I get that's what bounty hunters do, but there's something about writing it all out instead of showing it on a big screen or something that makes it feel less exciting and less glamorous. I would make a horrible bounty hunter. I'm way too impatient to sit around and do surveillance. And run all over Hell's half acre asking people questions like a census taker.

This series is still an incredibly entertaining read though, and one of my good friends tells me, it gets VERY hot very soon with Ranger. I can't wait!

This is a fun and entertaining book to listen to. It is the story of Stefhanie Plum an unlikely bounty hunter in New Jersey. She is smart and sassy and always getting into trouble or finding dead bodies.

This book is just as much fun as the first three, maybe more,and I found myself laughing out loud more than a few times. Not only are the laughs taken to a new high, but so too are the language and sex. A definite uptick from the first three, but the emphasis remains on the mystery and the fun. A definite fun read and I'll be back for more.

This one seemed to drag a bit for me. Even though Morelli was hotter than ever, the whole storyline was a bit slow.

This time out Stephanie is tracking Maxine Nowicki, who's wanted for skipping out on a car-theft charge. But of course that is not the whole story and in walks the usual cast of crazies that usually inhabit Stephanie's life. Sally Sweet, a cross dressing drag queen, Sugar his kinda roommate, the wonderful Lula, hot Joe Morelli, the very mysterious Ranger, the pot selling vegetable guy, Grandma Mazur and Joyce who just never seems to disappear.

Of course apartments are firebombed and of course another car is torched, but hey, this is Stephanie Plum and these things happen.

The romance, or whatever you would call it, heats up between Stephanie and Joe is what kept me reading this book. Their "relationship" was more interesting than the mystery, if that is what you would call it.

I love the Stephanie Plum series of novels. I really hate reading so I purchase them both in audio for me and paperback for houseguests and friends. I'm drawn in with the excitment and adventure of the story that Janet seems to capture in every novel. It has twists, turns, Lula, mystery, wonder, and of course two very "HOT" men! Who wouldn't want a mix of both men. :} I would recommend the "Plum" series, her "Full" series, as well as her earlier novels of mixed titles. They're all great fun and keep you as a reader at the edge of your seat waiting to see if a cars going to get blown up, who's died this week, who attends the pot roast dinner, who she sleeps with next, what will burn down next, and will she get her man (love or bounty). I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. I look forward to #14 in the "Plum" series, the next "Full" novel, and the new novel Janet recently wrote with a new author being released this October. Thank you!