Steph Dodges a Bullet - and Other Stuff - for Top Secret Twenty-One

Top Secret Twenty-One - Janet Evanovich

She’s up to twenty-one now, and she’s still a ditz – but she’s a ditz who somehow manages to get results. She’s Trenton’s favorite bond recovery agent, the one and only Stephanie Plum. If she’s coming for you, you’d better watch out (and put your clothes back on…)

The skip of the week is sleazeball car dealer Jimmy Poletti, charged with “importing underage girls from Mexico” (no further details available – after all, this isn’t a courtroom drama). Poletti’s former bookkeeper (maybe I should say “bookcooker”?), little person Randy Briggs has attached himself to Steph for some reason, all three feet-zero of him. Poletti’s in the wind, but his poker-playing buddies keep turning up leaking blood from numerous holes and things around Briggs keep exploding. Weird, huh?

Meanwhile, Ranger’s business is on high alert as a one-eyed Russian mercenary, with whom Carlos Manoso has a messy history, is in town looking for revenge. Even as Steph and her crew forage through the wilds of Stark Street looking for Poletti and a few other FTAs, the cyclops is out there with a sharp knife and some deadly goodies. But never fear: Stephanie Plum always gets her man… whether it’s Ranger or Morelli!

Fox and O'Hare Get Artsy: "The Chase" by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

The Chase - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

The team of Nick Fox and Kate O’Hare are back at it: O’Hare, the FBI agent and Fox, the world-class thief and con man, find themselves reunited in their unlikely (and probably highly criminal) partnership. For The Chase, the agent (O’Hare) and her quarry slash partner-in-crime (Fox) set up operations in the world of high-end art thieves, complete with international intrigue and political shenanigans.