Search - Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, Bk 3)

Finished this last night. I can't believe I almost didn't continue with the series, after not being overimpressed with One For the Money! Stephanie, Lula, Morelli, Ranger, and the rest of the stellar cast feel like old friends now.

I do love that Evanovich puts some running jokes throughout the books, such as Stephanie's car woes, and the indestructible Buick! I think that there were some running jokes with language in this one also. "Hunh" (used as an exclamation, question, and so on) was uttered by many characters (including Stephanie's Father) in this book. "Damned Skippy" was another one, usually from Lula.

Lula displayed a tender and caring side in this book, putting her friend and previously fellow hooker Jackie into rehab. I noticed a few exchanges between Stephanie and Lula that were really quite serious. This book wasn't all slapstick comedy. Even Stephanie's strange relationship with cop Joe Morelli has been tempered a little. Morelli seems to be getting frighteningly close to settling down.

I also appreciated that there was not an over-the-top dangerous psychopath throughout the book (as in the previous two books), although the "men in ski-masks" came close.

Wonderful!

Official Janet Evanovich website

This is the funniest Stephanie Plum novel yet. I can't recall the last time a book made me laugh out loud not once but many times. And I'd laugh later when I would remember a certain passage from the book. Stephanie is up to her chin in trouble again, and what a fun ride to be along on!
She's got a new sidekick in Lula, the ex-hooker turned file clerk, and their banter is one for the record books. There is less of Grandma Mazur in this one, but the few appearances she makes are gut busters! She's at her funniest when Ranger joins the Plums for dinner one night. Things are getting interesting with Morelli, too!
The ending to this one was a bit murky. I was following along fine until Stephanie got a good lead, but while it was hinted at and you know what the end result is, you never know what the whole story is or why the lightbulb went on and how she figured it out. A lot of the details seemed to be pared down in the last chapter and I would rather have read them than assume what was going on. But aside from that, it's another fun adventure with Trenton's sassiest bounty hunter.

Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter and former lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum (last seen in Two for the Dough) becomes persona non grata when she tracks down a neighborhood saint who has failed to show up for his court appearance. No one wants to help Stephanie, who works for her bail-bondsman cousin, Vinnie. While questioning admirers of the man nicknamed Uncle Mo, Stephanie is attacked and knocked out as she cases his candy store. She comes to next to the dead body of her attacker, who turns out to be a well-known drug dealer. Suddenly, she can't avoid stumbling across the bodies of dead drug dealers: one in a dumpster, one in a closet and four in the candy store basement. Stephanie suspects that mild-mannered Mo has become a vigilante and is cleaning up the streets in a one-man killing spree. But when she's repeatedly threatened by men wearing ski masks, she wonders if Mo has company and just might be in over his head. Despite her new clownish orange hair job, Stephanie muddles through another case full of snappy one-liners as well as corpses. By turns buttressed and hobbled by her charmingly clueless family and various cohorts (including streetwise co-worker Lulu, detective and heartthrob Morelli and professional bounty hunter Ranger), the redoubtable Stephanie is a character crying out for a screen debut.

This is the 3rd in the series with Stephanie Plum, the inept bounty hunter, her two love interests - Joe and Ranger - and her eccentric family, including the infamous Grandma Mazur. Great reading and a surefire belly laugh in several places.

Stephanie Plum, that sexy, sassy bounty hunter from Trenton, returns in this book to join forces with Lula, a former "ho" turned file clerk, to search for beloved ice cream store owner Mo Bedemier, who has been accused of carrying concealed. When Stephanie gets knocked out and wakes up next to a very dead guy who is in violation of a bond agreement for Stephanie's cousin and employer, VincentPlum, Stephanie looks bad in the "homicide motive" department. Head homicide investigator Joe Morelli wants Stephanie for questioning--and maybe more. This book is fast, it's funny, it's fabulous entertainment.
It will keep you laughing and reading!!!

I love every Stephanie Plum book I've read just because they're colorful, wacky and fun.

this woman cracks me up! her books are hilarious. i think these are good 'airplane reads'. make flights go by faster!

Stephanie Plus is a delightful character, and seems so real at times. Ms. Evanovich is able to craft terrific tale and these are some of the best crime novels that have been written recently.

I throughly enjoyed this book! I love Stephanie Plum and her family. Hilarious all the way to the end!

Great series

Loved it!

Funny

This is a fun read. The author provides great detail and creativity in developing the characters. I love escaping to the world of Stephanie Plum.

As usual, Stephanie Plum is way over her head. Untrained, uncoordinated, dysfunctional and disorganized, she is the world's most unlikely bounty hunter.

This time her assignment is simply to track down the town saint, a well-loved candy man with a devoted following. Suddenly people are shooting at her, drug dealers are turning up dead and her new sidekick is a former hooker with an attitude and a craving for action, at least until it becomes too dangerous.

Acknowledging her limitations, she calls on professional bounty hunter Ranger and police detective Morelli, her primary romantic weakness.

After all the expected and unexpected twists and turns, this turns out to be a wildly funny and entertaining read.

This was the best one yet! The first two Plum books were good, but this one was great. I was constantly laughing out loud.... Lula's character gets further developed in this book and the funniest out of the bunch.

Hilarious!

Another terrific story in the Stephanie Plum series. The humor is great, the action is real, and the characters grab your heart - they feel like old comfortable friends.

Stephanie Plum continues to learn the business of 'bailbondswoman' and get herself into messes. I love this series. You will too! Humor, excitement, family problems. . . just like real life.

Another great story in the Plum series! This time Stephanie gets herself in a whole lot more trouble than she ever expected! Exciting, funny, and this time the ending is very interesting, sort of a 'to be continued' and leaves you hanging and wanting more!