5 stars for Seven Up (Stephanie Plum book 7) by Janet Evanovich.
Sometimes it pays to procrastinate reading the books of a tried and tested author. More importantly, it pays have an emergency stash of such authors. The trick is to hold off the urge to devour their books at one go. Now my list comes in really handy after weeks of reading books which I am inclined to rate no more than 4 stars. It is high time for me to be dazzled by writings of a different calibre.
It has been quite a while since I read the last Plum book, I suppose it is welcoming to have a brief recap on our female protagonist.
Here we go.
Stephanie Plum works as a bond enforcement officer aka bounty hunter for Vincent Plum Bail Bonds in Trenton, New Jersey. Her job is to find those FTAs (Failure to Appear) and get them to reschedule their court date.
In so far, Stephanie has earned a reputation for either getting cars blown up or finding dead bodies. It is so established that when she calls in to the station, the police know without a doubt that it must be Stephanie on the other line. Taking verbatim from cop Carl Costanza “It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.”
So that just about sum it up for our heroine.
In this latest instalment, a simple task of looking for semi-retired old man, Eddie DeChooch to reschedule his court date spirals out of hand into a case of homicide. Just when I think the plot of chasing after the FTA is getting old, the reappearance of the mysterious man in black keeps me on my toes. And the best part? Well, the deal he strikes with Stephanie on the capture of DeChooch is worth every bit of my fingers turning the pages. There you have it, the author certainly knows when to strike the chord and keep the reader going.
As always, we have our regular bad-boy-good-cop-guy, Joe Morelli. It is always a delight to see Morelli on the scene with Stephanie. The highlight here is the light-hearted banter on gown, flowers, reception hall and - ahem - state of the mind.
To add on to the excitement, Stephanie’s older sister, Valerie finally makes an appearance with her two daughters in tow. Though her presence is sudden, Valerie falls into her place pronto to squeeze yet more humour into the story.
Once again, the story ends with a huge cliffhanger. Though I am not a big fan of such ending, the way the author rolls it out is so totally cool that it makes my heart flutter with anticipation for the next book.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; 1st edition
Publication date: 1 Apr 2010
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What Stephanie Plum loves about being a bounty hunter: it annoys her mother and she can wear jeans to work. What Stephanie Plum hates about being a bounty hunter: she has to bring in her grandmother’s geriatric, mobster boyfriend who has been leaving dead bodies in his shed… if she can find him.
On top of that, she’s got a missing misfit to find, the dog is eating everything in sight and master bounty hunter, Ranger, wants one night with Plum from dusk to dawn. She might want to rethink the whole bounty hunter thing…
*Blurb from author's website*
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