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St. Martin's Press (2006), 368 pages
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Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: #1 New York Times #1 Wall Street Journal #1 Los Angeles Times #1 Entertainment Weekly #1 Publishers Weekly Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. As it turns out, jobs that are safe and normal for most people aren't necessarily safe and normal for Stephanie Plum. Trouble follows her, and the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now. Her past has come back to haunt her. She's stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her into a burial plot of her own. He's killed before, and he'll kill again if given the chance. Caught between staying far away from the bounty hunter business and staying alive, Stephanie reexamines her life and the possibility that being a bounty hunter is the solution rather than the problem. After disturbingly brief careers at the button factory, Kan Klean Dry Cleaners, and Cluck-in-a-Bucket, Stephanie takes an office position in security, working for Ranger, the sexiest, baddest bounty hunter and businessman on two continents. It might not be the job she'll keep for the rest of her life, but for now it gives her the technical access she needs to find her stalker. Tempers and temperatures rise as competition ratchets up between the two men in her lifeâ??-her on-again, off-again boyfriend, tough Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and her bad-ass boss, Ranger. Can Stephanie Plum take the heat? Can you? Between the adventure and the adversity there's attitude, and Stephanie Plum's got plenty in her newest misadventure from Janet Evanovich, Eleven on Top.… (more)
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LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
number 11 in the Stephanie Plum series, someone is trying to kill her and after leaving her job as a bounty hunter and a couple of false starts with other jobs ends up working for Ranger while nursing Morelli's broken leg.
LibraryThing member madamejeanie
This is the 11th book in the Stephanie Plum series, and it was
a good one. It's pretty much the same formula, but like knowing exactly
where your cinnamon sugar is in the cabinet so if you get a craving for
cinnamon toast in the middle of the night, sometimes formulas are wonderful
things. Especially
Stephanie has decided to throw in the towel and quit Vinnie's Bail Bonds.
She's had it with rolling in the garbage, being shot at and missed, spit at
and hit, and she's just ready for a change in her life. She'd like a normal
job where you just go to work, get paid and go home like everybody else.
But after spectacularly brief "careers" at the button factory, the dry
cleaners and Cluck-In-A-Bucket, where she seems to be the target of hatred
from someone in her past who has returned from the dead to kill her. With a
little help from Ranger and Morelli, she's hot on the trail, but is it a
wild goose chase?
Ok, Cheryl was right (a little bit) about this back and forth between Ranger
and Morelli being tiresome after a while. But they are two such delicious
men, I'm not complaining. Stephanie will probably never get married anyway.
But this book was a lot of fun and I laughed all the way through it.
Grandma Mazur, Joe's grandmother Bella, Stephanie's wildly disfunctional
family, all combine to make this a great vacation of a book. Imagine
Grandma Mazur and Bella having a fist fight at Stiva's funeral home in the
middle of a veiwing.... Read this. Laugh. You know you want to.
High 5 for this one.
a good one. It's pretty much the same formula, but like knowing exactly
where your cinnamon sugar is in the cabinet so if you get a craving for
cinnamon toast in the middle of the night, sometimes formulas are wonderful
things. Especially
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when they work as well as this one did.Stephanie has decided to throw in the towel and quit Vinnie's Bail Bonds.
She's had it with rolling in the garbage, being shot at and missed, spit at
and hit, and she's just ready for a change in her life. She'd like a normal
job where you just go to work, get paid and go home like everybody else.
But after spectacularly brief "careers" at the button factory, the dry
cleaners and Cluck-In-A-Bucket, where she seems to be the target of hatred
from someone in her past who has returned from the dead to kill her. With a
little help from Ranger and Morelli, she's hot on the trail, but is it a
wild goose chase?
Ok, Cheryl was right (a little bit) about this back and forth between Ranger
and Morelli being tiresome after a while. But they are two such delicious
men, I'm not complaining. Stephanie will probably never get married anyway.
But this book was a lot of fun and I laughed all the way through it.
Grandma Mazur, Joe's grandmother Bella, Stephanie's wildly disfunctional
family, all combine to make this a great vacation of a book. Imagine
Grandma Mazur and Bella having a fist fight at Stiva's funeral home in the
middle of a veiwing.... Read this. Laugh. You know you want to.
High 5 for this one.
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LibraryThing member Brandie
Cute book. I thought maybe at the start the series was wrapping up with this one. I kind of feel like it really wasn't at the end, but it could be. Like maybe she wasn't sure if she wanted to keep the series alive for another book or not. But then I see number 12 will be out in 2 months. Maybe I'm
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just crazy though. It will be interesting to see where 12 goes because like I said 11 ended kind of, oh, I don't know the word to use, but I didn't feel anxious to get 12 but kind of wondered what happened next. I feel like I cant' get the right words out here ... Show Less
LibraryThing member SherryeW
This is the first Stephanie Plum novel I read and didn't realize it was a series until after. I then read all the books and am a real fan. This book was more upbeat and humorous than most of the others, it's a nice break from the more serious tones of the 1oth and 12th books.
LibraryThing member JulieFauble
Brilliant literary slapstick, every Stephanie Plum novel makes me laugh out loud
LibraryThing member MsBeautiful
Fun, fasting moving book with interesting characters and story lines, not as good as previous books in this series
LibraryThing member seasidereader
I've been reading this series for almost ten years, and Evanovich has worked hard at keeping readers satisfied while evolving her writing and Stephanie's character. A few of the volumes have felt like a rehash of stale themes -- overeating of junk food, destruction of vehicles and so on. Eleven has
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her more sincerely trying to change her life, and if she reverts to bail bondsperson in Twelve, I'll be disappointed. Show Less
LibraryThing member mrgreg
Same song, 11th verse, but once a year some of us need a good belly laugh-even if we've heard the joke before!
LibraryThing member carrjr
Stephanie decides to leave as a fugitive apprehension agent (bail bond). She tries the button factory, dry cleaners and the fast food chicken place. Someone is trying to kill her - from the past. She takes a job with Ranger a.k.a. Carlos Mancosa.
LibraryThing member mckait
I can't remember if I have ever before read Janet Evanovich. This has turned out to be a perfect read for a Saturday afternoon. It features a silly girl detective with an uncanny ability to have things blown to smithereens around her. Most often it is cars, occasionally...what or who is inside the
I started out thinking that I was wasting my time reading this book.. and ended up laughing out loud.
Do I recommend it? Well, if you are looking to improve your mind, forget this book. If you are looking for an entertaining, if improbable read... by all means, I do.
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car as well. I started out thinking that I was wasting my time reading this book.. and ended up laughing out loud.
Do I recommend it? Well, if you are looking to improve your mind, forget this book. If you are looking for an entertaining, if improbable read... by all means, I do.
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LibraryThing member hjjugovic
Stephanie Plum quits the bounty hunter business, but she's not suited for much else. After a series of distressingly short career changes, she takes a job with Ranger and learns more about the man and his operation than ever before.
LibraryThing member Annabellemay
One of the funniest of the Plums Series. Laugh out loud funny!
Stephanie Plum has had it with bounty hunting and quits.
Stephanie Plum has had it with bounty hunting and quits.
LibraryThing member FutureBestSeller
What can I say that hasn't been said before. I loved the book! She has a way with creating characters that are colorful and wacky. She makes me stay up late just to find out what happens next.
LibraryThing member MonicaLynn
Just when you wonder what she is going to do next in her bounty hunting. Stephanie quits and attempts to go work for the button factory. Wow, I was shocked at that one. It was a nice twist in this series and I always wondered if she was going to end up working where she is now working. So much fun
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in this one that I cannot wait to start reading the next one. Show Less
LibraryThing member mochap
Stephanie decides to quit being a bounty hunter, but trouble continues to follow her. Pretty good.
LibraryThing member babydraco
Hilarious eleventh book in this hilarious series.
I've only recently been converted to the Stephanie Plum fanclub but I think I want to be a lifetime member.
Not only are these books almost always delivering the funny, but Stephanie Plum is a great heroine. Unlike a lot of other detectives, Plum is
She can't get out of her own way and I love that.
I can definitely identify with the crowded house full of loud, unstable, working class relatives. I can identify with having to drive clunkers, work at jobs you hate, etc. She even eats badly! Which is rare in (non hardboiled)mysteries, especially mysteries catering to women, where the authors love to linger over tantalizing descriptions of lovingly prepared food. Plum lives in a world where she lusts after donuts, Tastykakes and pizza, and where people still eat pot roast (Faith Fairchild would *hate* it).
I love cooking, myself, but I think the market has an overabundance of what I call "cats'n cooking" mysteries. Stephanie Plum doesn't even have cat, she has a hampster.
I've only recently been converted to the Stephanie Plum fanclub but I think I want to be a lifetime member.
Not only are these books almost always delivering the funny, but Stephanie Plum is a great heroine. Unlike a lot of other detectives, Plum is
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an utterly normal girl. She has no superpowers, no martial arts training, no money, no special skills. Aside from the two hunky fantasy love interests, it's easy to think "this girl could be me." She can't get out of her own way and I love that.
I can definitely identify with the crowded house full of loud, unstable, working class relatives. I can identify with having to drive clunkers, work at jobs you hate, etc. She even eats badly! Which is rare in (non hardboiled)mysteries, especially mysteries catering to women, where the authors love to linger over tantalizing descriptions of lovingly prepared food. Plum lives in a world where she lusts after donuts, Tastykakes and pizza, and where people still eat pot roast (Faith Fairchild would *hate* it).
I love cooking, myself, but I think the market has an overabundance of what I call "cats'n cooking" mysteries. Stephanie Plum doesn't even have cat, she has a hampster.
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LibraryThing member Darrol
Stephanie Plum's adventures are not quite as funny as they were, but I enjoy popping into her life once in a while.
LibraryThing member Darla
The best of the newer books, by far, IMO.
LibraryThing member bleached
By the end of the eleventh book I'm beginning to feel as though I've known Stephanie my whole life. Her antics and friends are familiar and riotous. The fact that someone is trying to murder her, again, never gets old. Another triumph that had me immediately picking up book twelve the minute I
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LibraryThing member drebbles
Stephanie Plum is tired of her bounty hunter job. She's had enough of chasing after criminals, being shot at, her apartment always being broken into, and having her car blown up, so she quits her job. She has no problem finding a job, several jobs, in fact, but keeping them is a problem, as she
This was a much better book than the last one if the Stephanie Plum series, the disappointing "Ten Big Ones". All the old favorite characters are here: Joe Morelli, Ranger, Grandma Mazur, Lula, and Albert Kloughn. There are many humorous scenes; especially funny is the confrontation between Stephanie's Grandma Mazur and Joe's Grandma (at a wake, naturally!); a scene featuring a missing facial mole; and a scene involving Stephanie, her mother, Grandma Mazur and a wedding cake, which causes Stephanie to give up sugar, causing Joe much suffering. Stephanie's attempts at her various short term jobs are equally hilarious.
What I liked about this book is how the characters have matured. Having Stephanie quit her job as a bounty hunter was a good move, opening up new storylines and forcing Evanovich to write something else besides the somewhat tired routines of Stephanie and Lula trying to catch FTA's. Evanovich does throw in a couple of bounty hunting scenes that easily could have been left out of the book, but perhaps she thought readers would be disappointed if they were to disappear altogether. Stephanie and Joe's relationship is also maturing, which I liked, even if it does lessen the sexual tension between Stephanie and Ranger. There was a real mystery as part of the plot. And, while some might find the blowing up of cars a bit old, I found some of the scenes funny, especially the attempt to blow up the Buick.
One last thought. While it's nice that Evanovich has a contest to let her readers name the next book in the series, I hate the "numbers" theme of these titles. The first three or four titles were somewhat amusing, but using numbers in each title is restricting and the titles have nothing to do with the books, which I find annoying.
Aside from that, I loved this book and highly recommend it.
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manages to get fired as quickly as she is hired. Finally, Ranger hires her to work for him and she hopes her life will have some stability. But one of her past cases comes back to haunt her. Someone keeps blowing up her cars (again!) and leaving her threatening notes. She's not sure who's doing it, but she thinks it might be linked to some men missing from the `burg. And as if that wasn't enough, she has to get through her sister Val's wedding in a dress that makes her look like an eggplant! This was a much better book than the last one if the Stephanie Plum series, the disappointing "Ten Big Ones". All the old favorite characters are here: Joe Morelli, Ranger, Grandma Mazur, Lula, and Albert Kloughn. There are many humorous scenes; especially funny is the confrontation between Stephanie's Grandma Mazur and Joe's Grandma (at a wake, naturally!); a scene featuring a missing facial mole; and a scene involving Stephanie, her mother, Grandma Mazur and a wedding cake, which causes Stephanie to give up sugar, causing Joe much suffering. Stephanie's attempts at her various short term jobs are equally hilarious.
What I liked about this book is how the characters have matured. Having Stephanie quit her job as a bounty hunter was a good move, opening up new storylines and forcing Evanovich to write something else besides the somewhat tired routines of Stephanie and Lula trying to catch FTA's. Evanovich does throw in a couple of bounty hunting scenes that easily could have been left out of the book, but perhaps she thought readers would be disappointed if they were to disappear altogether. Stephanie and Joe's relationship is also maturing, which I liked, even if it does lessen the sexual tension between Stephanie and Ranger. There was a real mystery as part of the plot. And, while some might find the blowing up of cars a bit old, I found some of the scenes funny, especially the attempt to blow up the Buick.
One last thought. While it's nice that Evanovich has a contest to let her readers name the next book in the series, I hate the "numbers" theme of these titles. The first three or four titles were somewhat amusing, but using numbers in each title is restricting and the titles have nothing to do with the books, which I find annoying.
Aside from that, I loved this book and highly recommend it.
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LibraryThing member reneebooks
I think I've reached my limit on Stephanie Plum. Someone is trying to kill her AGAIN. She blows up several cars AGAIN. And it was not her fault AGAIN. She can't make up her mind between Ranger and Joe STILL. Her whacky antics with Lula gave me a few laughs but I'm ready for a little growth from
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Stephanie and it's just not happening. I'm not sure I will try the next one or not. Unless I hear that there is something different I'll probably just pass on it. (Grade: C) Show Less
LibraryThing member cameling
I thought this was one of the funniest Stephanie Plum books I've read so far. Everything keeps exploding around her, and she's so unfazed by it all. The sexual tension between her and the 2 men who currently keep her enthralled, Morelli and Ranger, add to the entertainment value.
Keep us guessing
Keep us guessing
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and keep us laughing, Janet Evanovich ... I am surely hooked on your Plum novels. Show Less
LibraryThing member kariannalysis
I’ve read so many of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels, they’re all starting to run together. During a couple of the books, I wrote things down that I liked and disliked – maybe I should do that for all of them. I just finished the book last night and I forget a lot of what
From the get go, Stephanie thinks Spiro is back – so, from the get go, I hate it. I hated Spiro the first time, hated him this time.
This book stressed me out a little bit. I know I have a lot to look forward to when Mikey and I start planning our wedding, but Valerie and the Klaughn’s wedding stressed me out. If Mikey starts getting sloshed and staying at work, maybe we won’t get married either. Yikes.
I’m glad Stephanie finally decided to trade in her stun gun. Yes, I thought it was cool that she was a bounty hunter, but I really don’t want her to get killed. Ends up, crazier stuff happens when she has a desk job than when she was chasing the bad guys. Imagine that.
One thing I can’t stop thinking about, Mama Macaroni. She still scares me … and her mole, I keep dreaming about Moley Moley Moley! Not cool!
I need something huge to happen and stick in my mind in the next couple of books. They’re good, but they’re all running together. So, for that reason, I only give Eleven on Top 2 bookmarks.
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happened.From the get go, Stephanie thinks Spiro is back – so, from the get go, I hate it. I hated Spiro the first time, hated him this time.
This book stressed me out a little bit. I know I have a lot to look forward to when Mikey and I start planning our wedding, but Valerie and the Klaughn’s wedding stressed me out. If Mikey starts getting sloshed and staying at work, maybe we won’t get married either. Yikes.
I’m glad Stephanie finally decided to trade in her stun gun. Yes, I thought it was cool that she was a bounty hunter, but I really don’t want her to get killed. Ends up, crazier stuff happens when she has a desk job than when she was chasing the bad guys. Imagine that.
One thing I can’t stop thinking about, Mama Macaroni. She still scares me … and her mole, I keep dreaming about Moley Moley Moley! Not cool!
I need something huge to happen and stick in my mind in the next couple of books. They’re good, but they’re all running together. So, for that reason, I only give Eleven on Top 2 bookmarks.
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LibraryThing member JoAnnSmithAinsworth
Good fun with her family and friends. Good balance with the men in her life. Kept the mystery going. Enjoyed it to the end.
LibraryThing member TadAD
This is one of the more decent of the series...certainly more believable than #10. Like all these books, this is an episode of humorous mind candy that will quickly blend into the rest of the series, but fun for all that.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2005-06-01
Physical description
6.79 inches
ISBN
9780312985349