Stephanie Plum is still out there doing mediocre work as a bounty hunter. She's tenacious, but when it comes to the actual apprehension, she's not very good at it. This time around she's trying to find a woman named Maxine, who skips bail for stealing her boyfriend's car. The boyfriend, predictably, is a real piece of work. Oh and this time the ante is upped because Stephanie's nemesis and husband stealer - Joyce Barnhart, has also decided being a bounty hunter could be a good line of work.Stephanie manages to have yet another vehicle blown up and her apartment fire bombed so she shacks up with Morelli for a few days while repairs get underway. And that's probably the best part of the whole book. FINALLY, after three installments (you can read my reviews of the last book here), Stephanie gets her man. Ahem.
Oh yeah, there's something about counterfeit money, and fingers start getting chopped off of witnesses too. In addition, we get a new member to Stephanie's odd posse that previously included her 80 year old grandma and the former prostitute turned file clerk, Lula. To this merry band we add the cross-dressing heterosexual Sally Sweet, bass guitarist and puzzle solver extraordinaire. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of Sweet at the series continues.
This installment was entertaining because of the character arc development of hooking Stephanie up with Morelli finally, and because Grandma, Lula and now Sally make quite a team. There were a few laugh out loud moments. The story did get a bit slow in parts. I've come to realize Stephanie never captures her fugitive the first time she meets them, sometimes not even the second or third time, so it always ends up making the book feel unnecessarily long.
3/5 Stars.
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