When it comes to capturing bond breakers, or dealing with her new bestie, Lula, a former 'ho, to use her terms, you can't not laugh out loud. She's smart and feisty, but she just always gets herself in trouble. Maybe it's a good thing I waited so long as it was like reading the series all over again this time - had me nearly wetting myself a few times! It might be formulaic, but it works. 'Why did I stop?' I asked myself ten pages in when I had to hold my bladder to prevent spontaneous bursting. I picked up Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich at the library last week and finished it last night. now I'm on a kick to close out all series I used to love so I'm fully caught up. I am not really sure why, but I was in a reading slump for a few years. I began reading the Stephanie Plum mystery series years ago and got through number eighteen around 2012 when I stopped. or did they? If Stephanie Plum wants to bring in a paycheck, she’ll have to remember: No guts, no glory. Then again-a little food poisoning, some threatening notes, and a bridesmaid’s dress with an excess of taffeta never killed anyone.

While Stephanie is notorious for finding trouble, she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around.

Desperate for money-or maybe just desperate-Stephanie accepts a secondary job guarding her secretive and mouthwatering mentor Ranger from a deadly Special Forces adversary. The real problem is, no Cubbin also means no way to pay the rent. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man.

Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do.Īfter a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don’t just vanish into thin air.

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