This is a perfect summer read – heck, it’s perfect for any season. Unlike some former romance writers who have forsaken the genre, Evanovich still puts in enough romantic tension between Stephanie, Joe and Ranger to keep us happy. They have it all – great characters, interesting mysteries, a style that is unique and colorful and even a dollop of sexual tension. The books are full of funny dialogue punctuated by Stephanie’s asides and observations. High Five and all Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books are told in the first person by our heroine herself. And of course Rex the hamster – the greatest pet in the world. Then there is the mysterious bounty hunter Ranger, who is beginning to show some real interest in Stepanie. And let’s not forget that sexier than sin bad-boy cop and Stephanie’s sometime lover Joe Morelli. There’s Stephanie’s sleazy employer Vinnie, her fellow bounty hunter the former ho Lula, her Grandma Mazur who is packing a stun gun in this one. What is so wonderful about the Stephanie Plum mysteries is the large cast of supporting characters and they are all here in full glory. Benito has found God and wants to go meet with Him and take Stephanie along.Īnd I haven’t even gotten to the part about the dwarf. Then psycho fighter Benito Raimirez gets out of jail. A tightwad like Fred has a bookie? Then employees of the garbage company start turning up dead.

Then a weird guy who calls himself Bunchy starts showing up claiming to be Fred’s bookie. Uncle Fred is still missing and Stephanie finds photos of what looks like body parts in his desk. Pretty soon she is up to her spandex miniskirt in trouble. Actually, nobody really misses him – but family is family so Stephanie starts to snoop. Uncle Fred was a cantakerous old coot last seen when he left to go chew out someone at the garbage company. You don’t know how to have fun at all.” – so she tries something a little more tame – trying to find her missing Uncle Fred. This is a little too much even for a kick-butt Jersey Girl like Stephanie – “Man, you don’t like to get shot. Unfortunately, their eyesight and aim is not so good. To add a little spice to this, the senior citizens who also live the apartment building come out and begin to shoot. You and I would call it throwing crazy junkies out of the apartments they are appropriating. Business is pretty slow, so she takes her fellow bounty hunter Ranger up on his offer to do a little moonlighting. When the book begins, Stephanie Plum has several irons in the fire. High Five was so funny that I had to stop reading several times and hold my ribs. Janet Evanovich’s books about Stephanie Plum just keep getting better and better.

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