Janet Evanovich

Fiction 2024/ 312 pages

It has been probably 10 years since I read a Janet Evanovich, but it was sitting on a table at the library calling to me, and so I picked it up!  Immediately I was transported back into the characters of Stephanie Plum, Ranger, Morelli,  and Lula.

The book opens with Stephanie bemoaning that fact that she said yes to two marriage proposals in the last week, and "celebrated big" with both of them!  But the book isn't about her romantic problems, even though she is facing a moral, ethical, physical, and emotional challenge.  It is still about her work, and she is still a bail bonds professional.

Some of the people she is trying to track down include Zoran, who, by all accounts,  seems to a vampire, and Robin Hoodie, who wears a mask and a hoodie whenever he commits a crime, and his crime is always to hijack a commercial truck and then drive it to a homeless encampment and open the back.  One truck was full of cookies.  One was filled with rolls of toilet paper.  Another was a soft-serve ice cream truck.  Another was a UPS truck, full of many different items (one homeless person scored a brand-new iPad!)

If you haven't read a Stephanie Plum novel, filled with mystery and lots of humor, don't start with this one.  I would go back to One for the Money and Two for the Dough.

(If anyone asked me, but of course no one did, I would have named this book Wedding Bell Blues or Fang).

November 2025