New York Times best-selling author Janet Evanovich constructs unforgettable tales filled with zany characters and non-stop action. DeCandido started her review by writing, "If you were angry with Evanovich at the end of High Five, when she coyly didn't tell us which of Stephanie Plum's two studmuffins the Jersey Girl/bounty hunter was planning to visit, you'll soon forgive her". Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum goes after bail jumper, Ranger--who happens to be Carlos Manoso, former Special Forces Agent turned soldier of fortune, and Stephanie's mentor.

The woman behind him was gray-haired and doughy, with tree-trunk legs stuffed into Garfield the Cat bedroom slippers.WHAT I LIKED: As with most things Plum, there's a lot going on … Grandma has moved in, she gets stuck babysitting a wild dog, and there's a killer running around who likes Stephanie. WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: The whole sub-story with gun-runners and missing money, and Ranger being "wanted" gets a little ridiculous after awhile. Armed with moxie and her Mini Coop, Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes, gambling debts, illicit affairs, and investment scams. Of course, since she is a decadent and immoral American she will undoubtedly be accepting of the perverse acts we will inflict upon her.

So my feelings for Ranger were complicated to begin with, and now I added a sense of doom to the list of unwanted emotions. In her haste to make a getaway, she'd rear-ended Brian Simon's plainclothes cop car and had left the scene. Then Ranger starts popping up at odd times of the night, with instructions for Stephanie to keep an eye on another Ramos son, Hannibal. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There was some slush on the street, and a layer of ice had accumulated on my windshield and my passenger-side windows. There was a little twist here, as the wanted man in this story is none other than the mysterious Ranger, Steph’s mentor in the bounty hunting