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Four to Score
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
In this installment, Stephanie Plum is back with a bang. The accident prone ditzy bounty hunter manages to get blown out of her car and apartment, and into Joe Morelli's spare bedroom.
In addition to her trusty sidekick Lula, she now has a nearly seven foot tall transvestite musician (who's not gay), and her pistol-packing Grandma in her conspicuous entourage.
The case this time is to bring in a waitress who's skipped bail. Like all her other assignments, this one sounds easier than it looks, and before you can say "pepper spray" things start heating up. To make matters worse, Morelli's family has the grapevine buzzing, and her sleazy cousin Vinnie has assigned her long-time arch rival to the same case.
The steam picks up this time around, and the sparks between Stephanie and Joe are as hot as Trenton in a heat wave.
Hard Eight
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Stephanie Plum is a the bombshell bounty hunter from New Jersey. She always has some problems. Her relationship with Joe Morelli is breaking. But adding to all this, she agrees to help her neighbor, whose daughters were suddenly disappeared. Where the girls have gone? What really has happened? Stephanie is ought to find the real truth…
Three To Get Deadly
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Three to Get Deadly, begins as Stephanie Plum, ex-lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter is given the go to pick up Mo Bedemier. Uncle Mo, as he's known in "the burg", Stephanie's working class, Trenton neighborhood, owns an ice-cream parlor/candy store, has missed his court appearance and seems to have left town. Stephanie's on the case and is soon caught in the middle of anti-drug vigilantes, murdered men and porno films. This is another terrific ride through Trenton with Ms Evanovich's cast of unrivaled, wonderful, quirky characters and Stephanie gets lots of help from her mentor, Ranger and vice cop, Joe Morelli. The writing is witty, irreverent and down to earth, with dialogue that will have you laughing out loud. Though the mystery itself is a bit of a stretch, it doesn't matter, because spending time in Trenton, with Stephanie and company, is such a joy. Start with One for the Money and read all the books in this series. They will put a smile on your face.
Fearless Fourteen
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
One more story about Stephanie Plum and her friends. Here we find a really mixed plot with a lot of branches coming out. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom’s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He’s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. She’s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and she’s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanie’s evening activities.
Lean Mean Thirteen
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Here is another adventure of Stephanie Plum. Now she marries Dickie Orr and have to divorce after 15 minutes of wedding, because she had found him cheating on her with Joyce Barnhardt. Then she meets Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, and gets in favour with him. Also she turns out that Dickie doing something shady. Suddenly Dickie disappears, and Stephanie becomes a first suspect. What has really happened with Dickie and what is the destiny of Stephanie you will find in the pages of this novel.
Eleven on Top
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
This is a story about Stephanie Plum, who has a little crisis in her career. Here we see how author plunge the character into series of variety events. Stephanie always deals with different kinds of fugitives, who prefer to flee rather than to be under the court. She always receives threatening notes, and her she finds the protection of Joe Morelli, her childhood friend and cop, and Ranger, tough guy and fugitive. In this novel we also meet Lula, Grandma Mazur and Grandma Bella, and Valerie, Stephanie’s sister. All these characters also play not the last part in the plot of the story.
Fantasy in Death
- Author: J. D. Robb
- Genre: Mystery
They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City's most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer's master plan. And she knows his game is far from over...
Before the frost
- Author: Henning Mankell
- Genre: Mystery
This is a terrifying thriller, written by Henning Mankell, a Swedish mystery writer. The book is the first featuring Linda Wallander, his main character's daughter, as a police officer, and I hope he plans on writing more. The author asks at the beginning, what if one man had survived the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978, and proceeds to follow that man. The plot is exciting and escalates fast into frightening, with ritual murder and sacrifice, disappearances of Linda's two best friends. Underneath, and effectively communicated, is the theme that religion can be a force for either good or evil, and it is a most powerful tool for manipulating people. This is evident all the time in the news, when countries go to war or terrorists commit mass murder, it's always "God is on our side," and who can argue with that? Religious fervor in the wrong hands can result in the worst atrocities. The book finishes on Linda's first official day of work, Sept. 11, 2001.
Prior Bad Acts
It was a crime so brutal it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but convicting the alleged killer - Karl Dahl - is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible as evidence against him raises a public outcry - and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Carey Moore in a parking garage, two of the city's top cops are called in to investigate and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither detective wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control. The stakes go higher when the judge is kidnapped from her home even as the police sit outside watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that include the step-son of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed.
Slay it with Flowers
- Author: Kate Collins
- Genre: Mystery
Abby Knight, a flower shop owner, has been asked to be a bridesmaid by her cousin. But eventually the wedding ceremony was under threat, because a groomsman suddenly disappears and another one was found dead. Abby is to find out what has happened and bring the light into the truth before the wedding ceremony starts.