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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:Stephanie Plum, the beloved bounty hunter with attitude returns in this irresistible adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Janet Evanovich! Stephanie is having a bad hair dayâ??for the whole month of January. She's looking for Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, who was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and skipped bail. To help her, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk. Lula's itching to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car. And Morelli, the cop with the slow-burning smile, is acting polite even after Stephanie finds more bodies than the Trenton PD has seen in years. That's a bad sign for sure. Featuring a feisty and funny heroine who "comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air" (The Washington Post), Three to Get Deadly is fast-paced and entertaining suspense at its fine… (more)
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Fun, fun, fun is what you get when reading this book and I'm looking forward to reading more about Stephanie Plum, Lula, Grandma Mazur, Morelli and Ranger.
I think this series is starting to feel a little more polished as it goes along. It's still complete brain candy, but it's increasingly really digestible brain candy. Shallow and unmemorable, yes, but a very quick, reasonably amusing, and thoroughly undemanding read. Which, some days, is exactly what you want.
Mind you, even if it is starting to feel more polished, it's also starting to feel decidedly formulaic. Three books in, and I'm pretty sure I could already write a Stephanie Plum drinking game: Drink when Stephanie has car problems, drink when she goes to her parents' house for dinner, drink when someone shows up to threaten her at her apartment (twice if they threaten her pet hamster)... I'm thinking this could get tiresome down the line, but for now, I'm not too bothered by it.
When Stephanie is given the assignment of tracking down Mo, the beloved owner of the local ice cream parlor, she ends up not being the most popular girl in the Berg. All of her acquaintances think she is crazy to think that Mo could do anything that would be remotely wrong. As we follow Stephanie along on her investigation, not only do we find out that he is breaking the law, but he actually has started a new business venture that is questionable in more ways than one.
Stephanie has her run of bad luck in this segment, from a hair color gone disastrously wrong, to her new vehicle being blown into smithereens! As she keeps searching for Mo she learns that there are people out there trying to protect him that will do anything that is necessary. But when her beloved hamster's life is on the line she decides to take a stand for herself and her pet.
This was a fun book to listen to, but I must admit that I seemed to get distracted from this one quite easily. Maybe I just have too much going on in my life right now, but I found myself having to listen to certain parts over again. It was once again a fun and enjoyable book to listen to and I do plan on continuing on with this series.
Lula's character development was good and Lula also provided most of the humour in the book. Especially as Grandma Mazur took a back seat this time.
Stephanie is absolutely hopeless, a bounty hunter that forgets her gun...
In the end, it isn’t Mo who’s been killing all the bad guys. It’s this reverend of a renegade church. Mo kind of got a little caught up in it and that’s why he was carrying the illegal handgun he got stopped with, but he hasn’t killed anyone. He wants out almost as bad as Stephanie wants to find him.
As usual, Joe Morelli makes an appearance. I think he sticks his nose into all of Stephanie’s cases just because he wants her so badly. They do almost make it this time but are interrupted by someone knocking over garbage cans in the ally. Afterward, Stephanie repents and says it was all the booze. We know there will be a next time.
And they are funny