Book Info:

Classification: Mystery (SERIES)
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Copyright: 2006

Review #1

Reviewer: Nancy
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: This, the twelfth in the Stephanie Plum series, reinstates Evanovich as the freshest, funniest mystery writer around. All the regular gang is here, with Stephanie in the middle of the action when Ranger's daughter is kidnapped, Lula joins a rock group, and Grandma connects with the new owners of the funeral home. I look forward every June to an evening of laughing out loud with Evanovich, and this one didn't disappoint; in fact, there's more laughter here than in the past few.

Review #2

Reviewer: Gayle
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: No one entertains quite like Evanovich with tales of Stephanie Plum and her bounty hunter co-workers.  This new addition to the series has grandma, Lulu and Sally signing off key in a rock band for the senior set, Ranger on the lamb, and new funeral parlor owners who bakes the best cookies!  For the first time, Stephanie’s father delivers dialog as close to a soliloquy as a New Jersey taxi driver stuck in this family can get.

Review # 3

Reviewer: Mariah
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: I was a bit disappointed by this latest in the Stephanie Plum series. Don't get me wrong: it was a fast, enjoyable read; but I expected more humor. I laughed less with this book than with any of the previous ones (excepting the weird holiday story "Visions of SugarPlums"). Long live Grandma Mazur, who was in fine form as usual. But Stephanie seemed too serious and straightforward to me. Not enough zany high jinks. Perhaps it is because of the plot: a missing child is no laughing matter. But I missed laughing all the way through the book as I usually do with the Plum series. I have very high expectations for this series which were not met in this book. I'm still giving it a 4 because I enjoyed it enough to zip through it very fast, staying up until the wee hours of the morning to finish it.