Predictable.

Cupcake (aka Babe) returns for another faced paced, skip hunting, Morelli-Ranger lusting, car wrecking, cake eating adventure. It is very difficult for me to put the book down, I actually called in sick today just so that I can finish reading this book. I think I am obsessed as I am beginning to think about actors I would like to see play these characters. ( )

I read one or two of those each year, usually during summer. What was a revelation in terms of laughing to tears from beginning to end at the first volume has turned into a summer read habit: the effect of surprise is lost but Stephanie's misadventures remain good fun. I'll see her next summer... ( )

This is airplane stuff....a quick fun/funny read. What a cast of characters!! ( )

The heroine of these books is Stephanie Plum, an inept bounty hunter from Jersey employed by her cousin Vinnie. In this book Vinnie branches out to include visa bonds in his bail bonds business. As soon as he issues one, the person in question skips out on the bond, and it's up to Stephanie and Ranger to track him down.

Some of the funniest scenes in the book take place when the search takes Stephanie, Lula, and Connie to Las Vegas. Lula is on a diet in order to become a super model and her scenes made me laugh out loud.

Not much of Stephanie's family in this one and I would have liked more of Grandma Mazur, but there was more of Morelli's family and his Grandma Bella's visions about Stephanie added a lot to the book.

A nice touch in this book is that Stephanie's car makes it through the book unscathed, but the same can't be said of the bodyguards Ranger assigns to her.

The book isn't all fun and games though. What starts off as a simple hunt for a skipped visa bond evolves into a cat and mouse game between Stephanie and an unknown assailant determined to harm her.

If you like mysteries with a lot of action and a lot of laughs, this is the series for you! ( )