Semiretired mob guy Eddie DeCooch is caught trafficking contraband cigarettes through Trenton, New Jersey. When DeCooch fails to show for a court appearance, bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is assigned the task of finding him and dragging his decrepit ass back to jail. Not such an easy job, it turns out, since DeCooch has learned a lot of tricks over the years and isn’t afraid to use his … gun. He’s already shot Loretta Ricci, an innocent old lady, and left her for worm food in his shed. He wouldn’t mind shooting Stephanie next.
Likeable losers (and Steph’s former high school classmates) Walter “MoonMan” Dunphy and Dougie “The Dealer” Kruper have inadvertently become involved with DeCooch. They’ve gotten sucked into an operation that is much more than simple cigarette smuggling and holds risks far greater than anyone could have imagined.
When Dougie disappears, Steph goes into search mode. When Mooner disappears, she calls in the heavy artillery and asks master bounty hunter Ranger for help. Ranger’s price for the job? One night with Stephanie, dusk to dawn. Not information she’s want to share with her sometime live-in roommate, vice cop Joe Morelli,
A typical dilemma in the world of Plum.
And on the homefront, Stephanie’s “perfect” sister, Valerie, has decided to move back to Trenton, bringing her two kids from hell with her. Grandma Mazur is asking questions about being a lesbian, and Bob, the bulimic dog, is eating everything in sight–including the furniture.
Mud wrestling, motorcycles, fast cars, fast food, and fast men. It’s Seven Up. Absolutely Janet Evanovich at her very best.
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Stephanie Plum keeps you amused and amazed. She stores her gun in the cookie jar–I’m always befuddled when she gets her targeted bail jumper. Her grandma keeps me on my toes as does the competition between Joe and Ranger. #6 in next!
Big Stephanie Plum fan.
This book is a full of action. Janet Evanovich creates the most unusual characters. The narrator, Lorelei King, is fabulous! She is the absolute best at creating entertaining voices. You have no trouble differentiating between characters. Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter, is a street smart Jersey girl. Stephanie must bring in an aging mobster as well as find two kidnapped “friends”. Those street smarts come in real handy as well as having Ranger as backup. Ranger’s services come with a price and he plans to collect. Oh my!
I have liked everything of hers that I have read
I enjoy the theme of these books, but there is an over abundance of swearing within them. I stopped reading them arouns book nine because the swearing got to be too much.
Love all the Stephanie Plum Books I laugh so hard I cry
All her books are fun, light reading. LOL
Like all Stephanie Plum stories, this one makes me laugh out loud!
4 out of 5 stars to Seven Up, the 7th book in the “Stephanie Plum” cozy mystery series, written in 2001 by Janet Evanovich. They just keep getting funnier. And in this one, Stephanie gets a marriage proposal from Joe. But Ranger will only help her with the crazy old bail jumper on the loose if she will do anything he tells her to do. She kinda likes that. So do I. But not if she’s gonna marry Joe. Come on! The antics and shenanigans are on high alert. Her family is way over the top and need to be stopped. And if I don’t get to meet that Grandma some day, there will be hell to pay. It’s a great book in the series, can be read in under 4 hours and will leave you red from embarrassment and laughter. But it’s worth it. So dig in, my friends… it’s a wild ride with this series.
all the Janet Evanovich books are fun to read, good pace, great characters, interesting plot, makes you love Jersey
Great escapism. Highly recommended
Classic Stephanie Plum