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!

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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.

Another good one, less Gramda Mazur, wish there was more, but the action keeps on coming and the humor is still there. I cannot imagine that there are so many of these books, seems like a sleepy town for so much action, but I guess that is why it is fiction! Get into the series, you will never get out, but you will love it all the same.

Third in the Stephanie Plum series. As usual, Stephanie gets in over her head when she tries to track down Mo Bedemeir, the beloved owner of the local candy store, who has gone AWOL on his bond and a no-show for his court date. People keep ending up dead and Stephanie always seems to be on the scene when it happens. If you enjoy a quick and entertaining read, you'll enjoy this series.

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.

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Laugh out loud hilarity! I love Stephanie Plum and I can't wait to read the rest in the series.

Book 3 and Stephanie still has me busting out laughing. Her and her grandmother are the funniest people ever without even knowing it. They are so crazy, and kooky. I love them. I also love the back and forth banter between Stephanie and Morrelli, and Stephanie and Ranger. These books are so funny.

Great read and laughs.

Awesome - just keep devouring these books!

This book was was so funny. Evanovich makes me smile every time I pick up her books. Hats off to her for a great series of books.

"It was okay that he took his teeth out, but I didn't want to see that eye rolling around next to his soup spoon."

Really, what else needs to be said?

This series is "laugh out loud" funny. I had to look up on the internet what a 1952 powder blue Buick looked like and I found a picture! Grandma Mazur is the best character in this series and Evanovich just keeps getting better right along. I am always looking forward to her next book and am eager to find out what Stephanie Plum is up to! A good read, for sure, that lightens your spirits!

Hot guys,adventures, & laughs. I love this books series.

A great, fun read in the Stephanie Plum series.

Great series

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