Review #48
Main Characters:
Stephanie Plum…Bail Bond Enforcer, (bounty hunter).
Lula… friend and file clerk in the Bond office
Morelli…Stephanie’s on again-off again boyfriend
Ranger…owns private Security Company, Bail Bond Enforcer and Stephanie’s temptation.
When Stephanie’s ditzy friend and co-worker, Lula, inadvertently witnesses the beheading of culinary TV star Stanley Chipotle on a Trenton, N.J. street, Stephanie's on-again off-again (presently off) boyfriend, cop Joe Morelli, reluctantly takes the case.
Lula get the bright idea to enter the same barbequing competition Chipotle was in town to promote, hoping to lure the murderers out of hiding. With the help of Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur, Lula creates havoc in the Plum households while trying to come up with a barbeque recipe and dodge the killers’ meat cleaver, bullets, fire bombs and car bombs.
Meanwhile, Ranger has recruited Stephanie to help solve a series of break-ins at properties under the protection of Rangeman Security. The inevitable sparks fly between Stephanie and Ranger, with Morelli grumbling on the sidelines.
The book dishes up the usual mixture of shoot-'em-up action (numerous cars explode) and quirky characters (notably a neighborhood flasher with a devoted following and a fire starting guy), but if it were not for the belly laugh situations and dialog, this book would be just like all the others. If you have never read Evanovich before, you will love this book. If you are a fan, you may be a little disappointed with the same old, same old.
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