Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head – literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she’ll talk to is Trenton cop, Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipotle’s sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to … who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers.
Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah.
Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur. Enough said.
Bring to a boil: Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, solve Ranger’s problems and not jump his bones?
Warning: Janet Evanovich’s Finger Lickin’ Fifteen is habanero hot. So good you’ll want seconds.
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Janet Evanovich will make you laugh out loud, so don’t try to sneak this book into class. Or church. Or your staff meeting.
Love Stephanie. Wish the series could go on forever. Gramma a hoot and could be own heroine in another book
Love the characters and the storyline! Great!
Janet E is ALWAYS fun!
I Love this series, I have read all of them and truly just love them. They are entertaining, and funny, along with a little bizarre. This is a great series to keep reading you will never know what will happen next
I laughed so hard throughout most of this book that even my cats thought I lost my marbles! If you don’t have the series…even this book stands alone and is hilarious!
Can I smack Stephanie upside the head? She was in bed with a very naked Ranger (yummy) and she didn’t go for it! Lula was the bomb in this book! I have never laughed so hard reading these books until Lula got stuck in the window of Stephanie’s car. That was priceless!!
Love all her books! I laugh so hard!
Hysterical. This series is one that transcends age and gender. A laugh for one and all.
Just a feel good story, I truly enjoyed each character . I’m hoping to read all of them. You finish one and you look for the next.
I enjoy this series, just finished book 25.
I love all of the Stephanie Plumb series, the TV show didn’t do the book justice and it flopped something aweful. The books are much better. Enjoy!
This is a laugh out loud hilarious mystery. The narrator, Lorelei King, is fabulous! She is the absolute best at creating entertaining voices. You have no trouble differentiating between characters. In fact, I had to double check to make sure it wasn’t more than one person reading. Loved it!!
Love Janet’s books can’t get enough of them. Have read most of them but all of the Stephanie Plum series that are laugh out loud.
When Bail Skip Enforcer Stephanie Plum’s BFF, Lula, witnesses a celebrity chef getting his head chopped off with a meat cleaver by a giggling maniac, she is his next target. Firebombs, wild west gun slinging, and cars blowing up en mass. Stephanie and her on again/off again boyfriend, Morelli the cop, is off. Fine by me, because she is working and living with Ranger, the dark, mysterious bad boy whom you don’t question. I’ve always been a Ranger fan.
A funny read with cute twists.
The Stephanie Plum series falls into the “guilty pleasure” category for me. Always interested to see what she’s up to next.
4 of 5 stars to Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, the 15th book in the Stephanie Plum mystery series, written by Janet Evanovich and published in 2009. Evanovich packed a lot of action into this installment, covering more than usual in Stephanie’s crazy life. To start off, she’s moonlighting for Ranger to help him figure out who’s stealing from his business. Not for nothing, and though she may be getting better a bounty hunter and detective, how can Ranger not solve this on his own? And who would seriously take the risk of his punishment, if ever caught. It’s certainly just a plot device to bring Ranger and Stephanie closer, building the sexual tension and pushing her towards him and away from Morelli in this book.
But then again, her momma is still setting up blind dates for Stephanie, so she’s got more than enough men to go around, even if some of them are scarier than the criminals she’s chasing. And in this one, Lula asks her to help find the two killers she saw decapitate a celebrity chef. All because she wants the $1M finders fee. But we know that ain’t gonna happen because there’d be no story if Stephanie collected half of that fee. She’d not need to work again, at least as a bounty hunter.
The fun part is the cooking concepts baked into this book… and the spice of all the zany characters. The mysteries got stronger, in part because there were a few going around in this installment. And you’ve got the normal shenanigans with Stephanie’s family and friends. All in all, this is one of the better ones and when I was thinking of putting the series down for a bit, this convinced me to give it a few more books before I decided.
This whole series of books is just funny, easy reading. The situations they get in to and how they react/handle them are just hilarious.
Don’t know if I’ll want chicken or doughnuts anytime soon, but fun times.
Love reading Stephanie plum and Lula characters working a case