This is one of the more plotted ones, and it is nice to see how Stephanie actually does manage to solve it. It's a bit more violent than some of the other books in the series, and the relationships between Stephanie and the other characters are still forming. ( )

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The third installment of the Stephanie Plum novels is darker with more dead people. It started off very slow, but the pace quickly increased by 3/4 of the book. This book definitely explored more of the plum/morelli relationship, which I felt was the best part of the book. ( )

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 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.

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 characters are perfectly hilarious and feisty but still believable and this adventure is a page-turner. ( )