#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees … crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans.
As fate would have it, Stephanie’s mentor and occasional employer, Ranger, needs her to go undercover at the Bogart factory to find out who’s putting their employees on ice and sabotaging the business. It’s going to be hard for Stephanie to keep her hands off all that ice cream, and even harder for her to keep her hands off Ranger. It’s also going to be hard to explain to Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, why she is spending late nights with Ranger, late nights with Lula and Randy Briggs—who are naked and afraid—and late nights keeping tabs on Grandma Mazur and her new fella. Stephanie Plum has a lot on her plate, but for a girl who claims to have “virtually no marketable skills,” these are the kinds of sweet assignments she does best.
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Love all of the Stephanie Plum series!
I laugh so hard when sis read the books in this series. I never figure ahead who did the crimes. Hurray for a great book
Completely hooked on the Stephanie Plum Series. I have already pre-ordered the next book
Stephanie Plum rocks, I hope this series never ends!
Steph is still confused over her feelings between Ranger/Morelli and Lula is still Lula….a fun read to break up reading other genres.
a chocolate covered ice cream bar?
Never a dull moment with the cast of characters surrounding Stephanie Plumb. From laughing out loud, to craving donuts, cake and pizza. Some how something always blows up, and there’s always a hot guy waiting in the wings…..or two. This one will make you think again before you eat ice cream!
One of Janet Evanovich’s best since her early books. I laughed a lot and there were surprises in Stephanie’s relationships with Ranger and Morelli.
I got stuck on light reading with the Evanovich Stephanie Plum series. The only thing that would make them more enjoyable is if you are from Jersey and even better if you are familiar with Trenton where most of the madcap escapades happen. Janet keeps running gags about Stephanie’s ill-fated cars, Lula, Ranger, Morelli, and Grandma Musur and her family and the pet hamster! I actually wait for them. If you have just finished reading a powerful historical romance or historical novel, this is a break from the heavy, and I admit I have laughed out loud all my myself quite a few times.
I love the Stephanie Plum books and highly recommend them.
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is laugh out loud funny. This book is no exception. Imagine the dead body in this murder mystery discovered in the freezer covered in chocolate and nuts! Such an imagination!
Ok, I guess it’s finally time to concede – I’m over Stephanie Plum. Or, at least, I’m over the series at this point. I know a lot of people have criticized the past 10/so books as being utterly repetitive and having lost the zany magic of the early ones. I was ok with that, really. I read my one a year, when they came out, and they were like cotton candy: too sweet by half, embarrassing to enjoy in public, but still fun, even if the fun was largely a matter of reminiscing about past enjoyment…
I missed #22, but saw #23 at the library last week, and enthusiastically picked it up. I’ve been reading weighty stuff lately (a lot of review books and non- and lit-fic), and was excited for something light and goofy and easy to read. Unfortunately, I simply could NOT get into it… I don’t know why – it’s a perfect Stephanie Plum plot line (she and Lula accidentally discover a body dipped in chocolate and covered in nuts, when it falls out of the back of an ice cream truck), insane and unbelievable and sure to result in manic hijinks.
Lula and Stephanie, Ranger and Morelli – they were all there, in their full-blown ridiculousness. But somehow, this time it all annoyed rather than amused… I got annoyed at Stephanie for screwing around with both men. I got annoyed at Lula and Stephanie’s mother for being horrific stereotypes. I got annoyed at Vinnie for being a greedy idiot. Even Grandma Mazur felt flat in this one… Maybe it’s just me – I may have outgrown the series – or maybe it really is overplayed.