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Starred Review. In her rollicking 13th Stephanie Plum adventure (after Twelve Sharp), bestseller Evanovich is in top, quirky form. Plucky, bumbling New Jersey bounty hunter Plum is reunited with her two-timing lawyer ex-husband, Dickie Orr, while doing a favor for the mysterious, sexy Ranger. But when Dickie disappears from his house leaving behind only bloodstains and bullet holes, Plum becomes the prime suspect in his alleged murder. Determined to clear her name, Plum and her on-again off-again Trenton cop boyfriend, the irresistible Joe Morelli, uncover Dickie's ties to a shady group of men involved in everything from money laundering to drug running. And when Dickie's jilted business partners decide Stephanie holds the key to the $40 million they believe Dickie stole from them, she's in for a wild ride. With the author's usual cast of eccentric side characters—everything from a taxidermist with a penchant for bombs to a grave-robbing tax man—Evanovich proves once again that Stephanie Plum and her entourage are here to stay. (June)
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Stephanie Plum works as a bail bondswoman for her cousin Vinnie in Trenton. She's mostly in love with Morelli the cop, who calls her Cupcake, but she's also mesmerized by Ranger, who works serious security and calls her Babe—a split in nomenclature that aptly characterizes this delectable long-running series. Ranger needs Stephanie to plant a bug on her ex, the ever-smarmy attorney Dickie Orr. When Dickie goes missing, a lot of bad people and places start to blow up, burn up, and turn up. Evanovich smoothly slips from the hilarious to the hair-raising, from the erotic to the familial, carrying the running jokes we love so well: exploding taxidermy (a regular plot point here); waiting for the cable repair guy ("those fuckers!" say at least half a dozen characters); Stephanie's oddball assortment of colleagues, buddies, and relatives. Stephanie saves herself in the end, as usual, but both Ranger and Morelli mop up the mess, also as usual. We end with pizza and a tangled tale of underwear. Not quite so sparkling as Twelve Sharp (2006) but eminently satisfying nonetheless. DeCandido, GraceAnne A.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
plum as saucy as ever!,
By roger hainsworth (lobethal, south australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lean Mean Thirteen (Hardcover)
Nothing stales the infinite variety of Janet Evanovich. We are back in the Burg, (aka Chambersburg) a decidedly ethnic area of Trenton, New Jersey. For the past thirteen novels the Burg has been the home of Stephanie Plum and her vast extended family. (At times Stephanie appears to be kinfolk to the Burg?s entire population. Well, the more or less law abiding folk anyway.) Among them are Stephanie?s grandmother, a pistol-packing septuagenarian with oddball enthusiasms in whose company life is never dull, and Stephanie?s long-suffering mother. Mom longs for her daughter to marry Morelli, a dangerously attractive cop, and stop playing around with the much more dangerous Ranger, ex-Special Forces, who operates a security company. She also wants Stephanie to retire from the perils of bounty hunting miscreants who have skipped bail on behalf of Cousin Vinnie?s bail bond business. Stephanie?s assistant Is Lula, ?a black woman with a Rubenesque body and a Vegas wardrobe that?s four sizes too small.? Lula is a sort of Grandma on steroids, and my favourite. The plot need not detain us long. Stephanie?s ex-husband, Dickie, has disappeared, assumed dead, and $40 million worth of ill-gotten assets have vanished with him. His weird law partners are turning up dead. Ranger is hot on the trail and Stephanie divides her time between working for him and being protected by him from the surviving partner, a murderous madman who wants the dough and believes Stephanie has the key to it. Read on.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Same old same old,
By Ambre (On, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lean Mean Thirteen (Hardcover)
I'm a big fan of the Stephanie Plum series, but this one was a let down. The Morelli-Ranger dance is the same old tired lines, nothing exciting happens. After the rush of sexual tension with Ranger in the last two novels, you expect something new and dramatic to finally happen. But it still the same old "I'm with Morelli but I'm attracted to Ranger" thing, but without much sexual tension in this one. And it seems more and more unbelievable how passive Morelli is about the whole thing. The bad-tempered Italian stallion hasn't showed much spine lately, letting Stephanie flirt and co-habit with Ranger without barely batting an eyelash. Hey, something has to sizzle, we need some sparks here! Plus, in this one, Stephanie is all shaken up and weepy by the events happening to her, although those events seemed a lot less traumatic (in Stephanie land) than in previous books where she handled it much better... no consistency with the character developed in the series. It's still ok, but it really didn't do much for me.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good follow up,
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This review is from: Lean Mean Thirteen (Hardcover)
After reading TWELVE SHARP, I had to write in about this latest tour-de-force from Evanovich. LEAN MEAN is the story of the quirky and wonderful Plum, the New Jersey bounty hunter who is now back together again with her distasteful ex-hustand, Dickie Orr. Filled with the usual Evanovich humor and aplomp, LEAN MEAN is second only to TWELVE SHARP in wit and substance. The key to this novel is that, while trying to do good, Plum becomes a suspect herself and has to clear her name. No mean feat. Joe Morelli makes an appearance again as the love interest, and the usual weirdos that Evanovich throws in makes this a fun romp. I'd also recommend the novels MIDDLESEX and HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE for those seeking something also good to read. Though nothing like this book, they very interesting as well.
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