Stephanie Plum has come a long way from out-of-work lingerie buyer in One For The Money, to accomplished bounty hunter in Two The Nines. Stephanie is smart and courageous and as always, out of her league. She isn’t built for this sort of business, but that hasn’t stopped her yet. It’s a good thing Ranger, Morelli and Lula do have the build for it.
These are first person narrated stories about how Stephanie learns to become a bounty hunter. She is just as much detective as bounty hunter really. Every book in the series is loaded with humor. I love the scenes where Stephanie is talking to low-lifes and their various creative failures (or successes) at evading her attempts to take them in for back child support or other bad debts. While there is always a good laugh or two at these little cases along the way, there is also always a big case, and a complicated murder to solve.
Morelli is her on-again off-again police detective boyfriend. Her mother is always after her to get a real job and a real boyfriend. Her grandmother, Grandma Mazur, thinks Stephanie is just fine, and would like to join her on her ass kicking sessions. Grandma Mazur reminds me of a New Jersey version of Estelle Getty from Golden Girls.
Lula is an ex-hooker, very large black woman who joins Stephanie as a never-official partner after just a couple of books into the series. She more or less ingratiates herself into the position, which is a very Lula thing to do. Ranger? Well, you’re safer not knowing, but he always manages to help, and he owns lots of weapons, has lots of skilled friends, and drives heavily armored vehicles.
This series gets 100 from me without hesitation. Evanovich is an excellent writer, very skilled, the plots are all compelling, the characters are interesting, dynamic, and original, and the plots; well, it is hard to put an Evanovich book down.
Stephanie Plum Series
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