This isn’t just another case. This is family.How far will Stephanie Plum go to protect the one person who means the most to her? The stakes have never been higher in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich.Grandma Mazur has decided to get married again – this time to a local gangster named Jimmy Rosolli. If Stephanie has her doubts about this marriage, she doesn’t have to worry for … marriage, she doesn’t have to worry for long, because the groom drops dead of a heart attack 45 minutes after saying, “I do.”
A sad day for Grandma Mazur turns into something far more dangerous when Jimmy’s former “business partners” are convinced that his new widow is keeping the keys to a financial windfall all to herself. But the one thing these wise guys didn’t count on was the widow’s bounty hunter granddaughter, who’ll do anything to save her.
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Love all her books, and her quirky characters, esp her grandma. I know this is hte latest but wish there’d be another book (28) soon.
Janet Evanovich always makes me laugh – a great thing during a pandemic and election year – but this time she tackles some deep philosophical questions.
Grandma Mazur is a widow after a few hours of marriage, but will SHE survive? Someone wants her dead. Stephanie, The Police force and Rangemen are on the job to save Grandma. Best book in this series by far. Grandma is a character and brings lots of laughs to the story.
I love the Stephanie Plum series, though after 26 books, I wish she’d pick either Morelli or Ranger or leave them both alone. My thought would be by this point in time, she should have learned something and started moving in a better direction. Otherwise, I love the characters, the writing at times is hysterical.
No, they’re not as good as they used to be, but what is? These books never fail to make me laugh
Amusing, fun, easy to read
Whenever I feel like I could use a good laugh, I like to listen to a Stephanie Plumb adventure by Janet Evanovich. Stephanie is the world’s least competent bounty hunter. In fairness, she is becoming more competent after twenty-six books and a bunch of side adventures, but she has so much plain stupid bad luck that you can always count on something hilariously crazy happening to her—like the neighbor spraying her with the garden hose when she’s trying to stealthily stake out the house of a skip she’s tracing.
This novel had the same zany vibe even if the actual focus of the story was more serious than usual. Stephanie’s grandmother spontaneously marries a retired mobster in Atlantic City and he dies of a heart attack forty-five minutes later after winning a jackpot. Now his hated sisters are coming after grandma out of fear that she (as his wife) will inherit his money and at least two groups are coming after her because they mistakenly believe that her dead husband had passed along some very important keys to her before he died. So people are coming after Stephanie’s grandmother and it takes everything she and her supporting cast have to keep the old woman safe.
As mysteries go, the keys were not the most difficult one to figure out. I knew where they were within five minutes, although I doubt that anyone in the book could reasonably be expected to have looked for them in that hiding place.
If you like Stephanie Plumb novels, this one will give you everything you expect to find in them, but I don’t think it’s the best place to start reading the series.
Not as good as the previous 25
Stephanie Plum’s grandma Maxed had married a mobster who dies forty five minutes after the wedding while playing the slot machine. He was the “keeper of the keys” for the La A Boys, a group of senior mobsters that hung out at club called the Mole Joke’s backroom. Everyone thinks he passed the keys to grandma before he died. Stephanie has to protect grandma from the mob and Jimmy’s family. She is also second guessing her career choice and wants to make changes in her life. This is great book with my favorite characters in it and this one let’s grandma shine as main character in the storyline. She packs a big gun in her purse and knows how to use it.
Another fun gat away from a trusted author
This was an entertaining read as always but nothing like the series when it first came out, not having as many laugh out loud moments. While I love Grandma Mazur the book definitely needed more Ranger as well. I also didn’t like the part of the story line involving the skip with the dog, I found that a little distasteful but overall still a good book. Giving this one 3.5 stars.
Once again, evanovitch delivers a fun romp
I enjoyed this one but it is not the best of the series.