Lean Mean Thirteen
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MISTAKE #1
Dickie Orr. Stephanie was married to him for about fifteen minutes before she caught him cheating on her with her arch-nemesis Joyce Barnhardt. Another fifteen minutes after that Stephanie filed for divorce, hoping to never see either one of them again.
MISTAKE #2
Doing favors for super bounty hunter Carlos Manoso (a.k.a. Ranger). Ranger needs her to meet with Dickie and find out if he's doing something shady. Turns out, he is. Turns out, he's also back to doing Joyce Barnhardt. And it turns out Ranger's favors always come with a price...
MISTAKE #3
Going completely nutso while doing the favor for Ranger, and trying to apply bodily injury to Dickie in front of the entire office. Now Dickie has disappeared and Stephanie is the natural suspect in his disappearance. Is Dickie dead? Can he be found? And can she stay one step ahead in this new, dangerous game? Joe Morelli, the hottest cop in Trenton, NJ is also keeping Stephanie on her toes--and he may know more than lets on about her…It's a cat-and-mouse game for Stephanie Plum, where the ultimate prize might be her life
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31 primary books35 released booksStephanie Plum
Stephanie Plum is a 35-book series with 31 primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Janet Evanovich.
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Stephen has a public fight with her ex-husband and then he disappears. Stephanie and Ranger try to find out what happened to him and clear Stephanie. We slowly find out more about Ranger with each book. I so want him and Stephanie to end up together. He just seems to care a lot more about her than Morrelli. I love these books. I listen to them on audiobook and just love the narrator.
In the 14th book, many series are showing their age, getting annoyingly repetitive/derivative...and just dull. Not Stephanie Plum (‘tho you could make the case that some of the earlier books did). Really, really good read–fun, complicated case. Not too slapstick-y (there is still slapstick–it is a Plum book)–no time at a mortuary (yay!), even Joyce adds something to the storyline (which she hasn't done in ages).
Action, laughs, a wee bit o' character development–all in all, a solid Plum adventure. One of Evanovich's best.
Stephanie Plum has to rescue her sorry ex-husband in this episode of the life of a bumbling bounty hunter. The usual odder-than-odd characters abound: a grave robber, a taxidermist, a promising boyfriend for Grandma Mazur. I've not yet grown weary of Plum and her friends.
