June, 2001

Stephanie Plum, for those who've missed her previous adventures is an ex-lingerie buyer who has found gainful employment as a bounty hunter. Well, her family and occasional boyfriend think she'd be better off in a button factory, but it's such a cool job and you don't have to wear pantyhose. Pity Stephanie's afraid of her own gun, though.

Stephanie's adventures are set in a idiosyncratic world called the 'burgs', the suburbia to which mafia types used to retire. It's a land of big hair, hard makeup, and overachiever housewives, where you ain't nobody if you don't have a nice gun in your purse. Sure there's a law against carrying concealed, but it's not as if anyone considered it a really IMPORTANT law.

All the regulars return in this adventure, including the very stoned Douggie and Mooner. Evanovich manages to mix humour with crime in an addictive mix that makes chocolate look like an amateur.

The adventures of Stephanie mix outrageousness with a razor-sharp observation of human nature, and there's someone for just about everyone to relate to. After a junk-food laden dose of a Plum escapade you'll be torn between gorging yourself on pizza, fried chicken and doughnuts -- or swearing on all the food you hold holy that you'll join a gym, and a gun club and be as cool as Ranger.

For more of Stephanie's adventures, see the Series Series entry See also: Evanovich answers the usual questions Other series you might like include Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski and Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone.

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