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.

Picked this book up at Hudson's Coffee Shop in Plymouth last Friday. Many books ahead of it on my shelf but I look forward to getting around to this one sometime.

Just for the sake of any future readers, the cover is not as shown above, but is as shown to the left here.

I finally got around to starting this book and I am really, really enjoying it! Then I realised it was 4th in the series and I decided it was better to read the preceeding 3 before I read any further. So I've ordered the 1st one and have 2 and 3 on my Wishlist. The delay in starting reading was really the size of the book - not easy to take on holiday or put in a handbag.

I took this off longfordmaine2's shelf as she is still on the third book in the series. We are both loving the Staphanie Plum books and will work our way through the others in time.

I loved this book. Stephanie Plum's character is developing nicely with each book in the series and the characters of Lula and Morelli are really being fleshed out too. Passed back to Longfordmaine2 to read.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Passed to Longfordmaine2

Brilliant. I so so enjoyed this book. Stephanie Plum is a wonderfully entertaining character.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left at the bus stop