Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Series: Stephanie Plum
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Category: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Setting: New Jersey
Author Website: http://www.evanovich.com/
About series:
Stephanie Plum is just an average girl who grew up in a tight knit neighborhood in New Jersey where families usually consist of a mixture of cops and mobsters. Stephanie falls on some hard financial times and the only job she can get is at her Cousin Vinnie’s Bond office as a bounty hunter. The majority of Stephanie’s cases involve skip traces, which is just picking up people who missed their court date. But in every book, Stephanie manages to cross paths with a murder and suddenly she is knee deep in serious bounty hunting. Luckily Stephanie has a long list of friends that always turn up to help her out in a pinch and the bad guys never win.
About this book:
Tricky Twenty-Two delivers a classic Stephanie Plum story complete with her usual gang of friends and some crazy skip traces. What is unique about this book is that Stephanie has her job under control and no longer fumbles around wondering what to do. However, knowing what to do and being able to complete that task are two different things. These challenges that Stephanie faces in her job somehow makes the challenges that we face at work manageable. Let’s face it, if Stephanie can be successful as a bounty hunter then _____ (fill in the blank) is easy.
Twenty-Two’s subplot deals with the love triangle between Ranger, the hot loner bounty hunter, and Morelli, the hunky policeman and sometimes boyfriend of Stephanie’s. If you are on Team Ranger, this book is for you. We get 17 different “Babe’s” from Ranger and everyone of them are hot and sexy yet each also conveys something unique to Stephanie. Don’t worry Team Morelli, Joe is still hot and hunky.
Twenty-Two books in and I’m still in love with Stephanie Plum. She is evolving as a character and yet keeps all the good parts that we love. Like not having bullets in her gun. Or her documented history with car trouble. Also, there’s a bonus: chapter one of Turbo Twenty-Three is at the end of the book, and ordinarily I’d be caught in a conflict about whether or not I should read it. My dilemma was, it’s one more chapter I’m going to love reading but on the other hand, I would have had to wait until the book was released to read the rest of it. But this time both Turbo Twenty-Three and Hardcore Twenty-Four are already released! I’m going to marathon read Stephanie Plum this weekend to catch up on the series. How about you?
Learn more about the Stephanie Plum series (in order written):
- One for the Money
- Two for the Dough
- Three to Get Deadly
- Four to Score
High Five- Hot Six
- Seven
Up - Hard Eight
- Visions of Sugar Plums (between-the-numbers holiday novella)
- To the Nines
Ten Big Ones- Eleven on Top
- Twelve Sharp
- Plum Lovin’ (between-the-numbers holiday novella)
- Lean Mean Thirteen
- Plum Lucky (between-the-numbers holiday novella)
- Fearless Fourteen
- Plum Spooky (between-the-numbers novel)
- Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
- Sizzling Sixteen
- Smokin’ Seventeen
- Explosive Eighteen
- Notorious Nineteen
- Takedown Twenty
- Top Secret Twenty-One
- Tricky Twenty-Two
- Turbo Twenty-Three
- Hardcore Twenty-Four
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