This is a comfort read for me. I love Stephanie Plum. I know its the same story with different details over and over, but it still satisfies. I love the characters, and the humor, and the wacky incidents and the goofy plots.

This time a distant relative of Morelli's named Dom, is getting out of jail for bank robbery. He has served his time, but no one knows where the money is hidden. Dom had partners, and each has something so all of them need to combine to find and get the loot. His partners start dying and Dom goes into hiding.

Stephanie has to arrest his sister, because she failed to appear in court. She held up a liquor store with a light saber for a bottle of gin. Stephanie takes her away, and ends up watching her teenage son until she can make bail. Only she can't and the son named Mario, but who only answers to Zook, moves in with Morelli. He is a computer geek and an illegal spray painter, so he paints Bob the dog, and Stephanie's latest car. He ends ups with his on-line game pals inhabiting the house, and he turns Grandma into a game addicted goth.

Morelli's house used to belong to his Aunt Rose, and he inherited it when she died. She had promised it to Dom, but was upset with his crime and changed her will. Turns out there is something related to the money hidden in the house. So criminals (including a dead one) and treasure hunters show up at the house in all kinds of places and times.

This line *** is the epitome of why I love this series. Stephanie and Zook are having breakfast and discussing the latest man who popped out of the cellar.

Stephanie: Did you let any strangers in the house ?
Zook: Just the Pizza Delivery guy

Stephanie: *** Did he go into the basement and not come out ? ***
Zook: No. He got into his Pizza car and drove away.

I laughed so hard, I almost fell on the floor. Imagine living in a world where it seems reasonable that Pizza delivery men MIGHT move into your basement and never leave.

There is also a side plot that intersects with Stephanie doing Ranger a favor and helping him as personal security for a wild, aging, singer who is on the down slide and comes to town for a concert. They need to keep her alive, from getting into brawls, and sober and drug free for her appearances. They try a female bounty-hunter reality show, but that doesn't work. So she takes up reporting live for the news and blabs about the money maybe being hidden in Morelli's house.

I just devoured this in one sitting and can't wait for the next one to go into paper. I know some people are upset that there is no resolution between the love triangle between Morelli, Stephanie, and Ranger. I don't care. I want her with Morelli and don't mind the flirting with Ranger. ( )

The Stephanie Plum mystery-comedy formula is familiar to most everyone by now – a little mystery, a little sex, a bunch of lovable screw-ups on both sides of the law, a bit of danger, and some laughs at everyone’s expense. Fearless Fourteen doesn’t move an inch away from the formula. Why mess with success? Now, this is not highbrow stuff – the characters are one-dimensional, the “sight gags” are strictly Three Stooges, the sex hard “R”, the plot turns don’t stand up to much scrutiny, and the detecting is strictly elementary. It’s appalling to me that a sophisticated, sensitive, intellectual (like me) would find any appeal in a book like this. So why couldn’t I put it down? I guess it’s simply because it made me laugh out loud at the frequently inept Stephanie and her odd collection of co-workers, family, lovers and friends. I’m not sure I’d want any of these eccentrics in my house, but they’re fun to read about. I gobbled this book up like a bag of potato chips.

Janet Evanovich not only has mastered a genre that is very difficult to be consistent in, but she has avoided one of my cardinal sins in serial mysteries, trotting out all her past characters in each new book. You’ve seen it before, when characters from previous installments come into the current book for a few pages just so we catch up on their lives or something. Spare me. Evanovich has left behind her annoying sister and a host of other characters and I say bravo! I’m sure we’ll hear about them when Evanovich concocts a plot where they’re useful, not just ornamental. I’ll be waiting. ( )

Everything you'd want and more from the fourteenth installment of the Stephanie Plum series. All the wacky characters are back including Mooner, the lovable stoner, along with new characters like the goth teen Zook who looks a lot like Morelli and a 60 year old pop singer. This time there's rumor of a treasure hidden in Morelli's house, Stephanie and Morelli are playing the parent role to three people living in the house, and Steph has to help keep the crazy pop singer under control while hunting down FTAs. Wacky, silly, and a true enjoyment to read. ( )

Classic Stephanie Plum.I listened to this one rather than reading it and I actually really liked that...it was fun to hear it rather than read it.When I first started the book, I actually thought I might have already read it because it starts very similar to another one (I think it was Lean Mean Thirteen). It is different, but still more of the same. I'm honestly getting a little tired of the same old, same old...a few characters were introduced for this book that kept it different, but the idea is still the same...Still waiting for Stephanie to make a decision between Ranger and Morrelli... ( )

Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter, is back. She tries to help figure out why someone keeps trying to break into her cop boyfriends apartment. Of course, she has the help of the ever -so -handsome, Ranger. janet Evanovich's humor is as perfect as ever in the 14th edition of the Stephanie Plum series.