Three to Get Deadly

by Janet Evanovich

1998

Status

Available

Publication

St Martins Press (2011), Edition: Reissue, 396 pages

Description

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)

User reviews

LibraryThing member reading_crystal
Classic Stephanie Plum - this is my first time reding through this series and I am loving it. I love laughing at Stephanie and Lula's crazy antics in this one. I missed Grandma Mazur in this one since she was really in Two for the Dough, but when she was there, she was funny.

Stephanie is hot on the
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trail of one of Trenton's favorite uncles. Uncle Moe who owns the town candy store. In this one she fights against people out to protect Moe, one of her former teachers, her new truck, her hairdresser and of course Joe Morelli. As things start to unravel it gets even crazier. Just a fun read and C.J. Critt does a wonderful job on the audio - I love her different voices and the accents are great.

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.
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LibraryThing member indygo88
I have several Evanovich and I tend to pick one up only when I'm in the particular mood. I can give or take the Stephanie Plum series -- the plot lines are a little over-the-top ridiculous, but they're good for a laugh if you don't take things too seriously. I actually found myself quite into this
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one about halfway through -- more so than some of the others I've read. Although contrary to the opinions of other readers, I find the character of Lula somewhat annoying. However, I loved the sexual tension between Stephanie & Morelli in this one. That part, at least, was believable.
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LibraryThing member bragan
Book three in the Stephanie Plum series. At this point, our heroine has been in the bounty hunter biz for five whole months, and has still not entirely gotten the hang of it. Her current assignment is to bring in a beloved neighborhood figure for missing a court date, but the guy is nowhere to be
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found. Looking for him, of course, quickly plunges her into a much more complicated situation, this time involving a surprising number of dead bodies.

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.
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LibraryThing member jo-jo
I can't tell you how much I look forward to listening to these books in my car during my commutes. A couple of things have become obvious to me. One being that Joe Morelli and Stephanie are attracted to each other and should just give in to that fact, and the other being that Stephanie just
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shouldn't own a vehicle of any kind!

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.
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LibraryThing member celticstar
I was enjoying this book until I got to the final chapters. While I appreciate that the Stephanie Plum books are meant to be humourous light reading, Evanovich downplays what the Candy Man (Uncle Mo) has actually been doing and even seems to want you to feel sorry for him. I'm probably in a small
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minority here especially among Stephanie Plum fans but this has really put me off reading any more in 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...
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LibraryThing member Bookmarque
This one was the funniest yet. Between Lula calling Mo ‘Old Penis Nose’, Stephanie’s orange hair, her disaster of a used pick up truck and her inability to catch a 17-year old bb gun shooter, I laughed a lot. It was also one of the most brutal. The people really behind the drug dealer
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killings don’t want her to find Mo and they threaten to shoot up her hamster with dope if she won’t back off and then they burn her hand with a cigarette. I don’t know whom I felt worse for.

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.
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LibraryThing member bastet
These all start blending together to me, but I eat up the Stephanie Plum novels like candy.
LibraryThing member MsBeautiful
Fun, fasting moving book with interesting characters and story lines
LibraryThing member CommonReeda
What a terrible role model Stephanie is. Her diet, her trashed cars, getting into messes the men in her life have to sort out. So my role model in these books is Grandma Mazur. And I have to read them to make sure the hamster is OK.
And they are funny
LibraryThing member adriel
Stephanie Plumb and her pesky assistant, Lula, bounty hunt their way through this adventure. Stephanie is an accidental hero throughout the book as she tries to track down "Failure-to-Appear" Moe. Along the way drug dealers are being killed off left and right, the connections to Moe seem
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inevitable. This is the third book in a series of twelve.
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LibraryThing member Jthierer
My personal pet peeve is mysteries that are solved based on clues/conversations/whatever that the reader is not privy to, which happened in this novel. Ordinarily, I love this series but this one was not my favorite.
LibraryThing member carrjr
Mo Bedemier owns a candy store in the burg and disappears. He's been a part of a group that is killing drug dealers.
LibraryThing member babydraco
Still very funny, but the S&M subtext in most of the books actually becomes sort of a plot point. Normally I wouldn't mind but I had reasons for minding this time.
LibraryThing member bleached
Another knock-out for Janet Evanovich! This time Stephanie finds herself after a neighborhood saint who becomes FTA after a charge everyone finds unnecessary. Of course, as always, things get crazy and complicated as Stephanie begins stumbling upon the corpses of drug dealers everywhere. The
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characters are perfectly hilarious and feisty but still believable and this adventure is a page-turner.
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LibraryThing member benfulton
I'm a bit surprised by the number of reviews and the number of owners of this book, as I casually grabbed it off the shelf of a local bookstore because it was remaindered for three bucks. It's certainly worth the money, as all the other reviews have said; fun and filled with quirky energy. This is
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the only Evanovich I've read - I'll be happy to read more if they're as cheap - but my favorite character hasn't been mentioned by any of the other reviewers: Ranger, the supertough bounty hunter who carries on the Saint or Batman traditions of an ordinary human who's made himself stronger and smarter than everyone else by dint of hard work. There's no hint of a love affair in this book, but I'd be curious to know if more goes on in the overall story arc. Hmm. Maybe I'll have to pick up a few more after all.
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LibraryThing member kymmayfield
ok stayed up all night reading this one lol. It was great. Love the series, but i just kept thinking to myself, Stephanie you dummy!!!!!! Morelli is hot and he wants you but you keep messing things up. I guess there are enough books in the series still for it to happen at least i can hope right lol
LibraryThing member caklr650
This book was given to me by a client a sold a furnace to. I really hated this at first because it felt like a "chick" book.After about 60 pages I was ready to give it up but felt compelled to finish it because I promised the person who gave it to me that I would read it. Really grew on me. Funny.
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Ended up really liking it.
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LibraryThing member readingrat
This book was more of the same good fun you can generally expect a Stephanie Plum book to deliver in spades.
LibraryThing member DGrivetto
So funny. Grandma Mauzer needs her own storyline. Stephanie is great.
LibraryThing member miyurose
I really like these books. I've just been sucked in by the characters, from Stephanie, to Grandma Mazur, to Lula, to Ranger, to Joe, to Rex.
LibraryThing member kikilon
I'm starting to enjoy the rcurring themes, and this book is probably my favourite in the series. I enjoyed the twists that lead to the resolution.
LibraryThing member kikianika
I'm starting to enjoy the rcurring themes, and this book is probably my favourite in the series. I enjoyed the twists that lead to the resolution.
LibraryThing member TerriBooks
This series is hilarious. I'm enjoying Stephanie Plum's interior conversations as she learns how to be a bounty hunter. She shows a side we all have. How can you forget your gun when you're going out to catch a criminal? Well, wouldn't you at one time or another? The roster of characters is also
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developing and that's turning into a strength, as well. Looking forward to more time with Stephanie and her unlikely adventures.
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LibraryThing member mmillet
This 3rd Stephanie Plum isn't my favorite so far. That said, I still liked it. I just felt like I didn't really get attached to the story until about halfway through and usually I am busting up within 30 pages or so. Fans of this series will probably still love it but I hope this was just one of
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those 'slump' books - cause the first two were great. Anyone care to enlighten me if I should continue reading the rest of the series or not?
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LibraryThing member iftyzaidi
This third installment in the stephanie plum series manages to retain all the humour, zany situations and engaging mystery of the first two books. There's little variation from the formula, though the villians are somewhat seedier, but so far its still a winning formula.

Awards

Lefty Award (Winner — 1998)
Dilys Award (Winner — 1998)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1997 (US)

Physical description

4.02 x 0.94 inches

ISBN

0312966091 / 9780312966096

Barcode

1601905
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