- Tell a friend about this review.
- See our latest mystery/suspense and thriller reviews
- See more BooksForABuck.com reviews of amateur sleuth mysteries
- Go to Mystery Review Central at BooksForABuck.com
- Enjoy great mysteries? Check out the BooksForABuck.com e-book mysteries--novel-length eMysteries and eThrillers at highly affordable prices
- If you like mysteries featuring spunky take-no-prisoner heroines, you may also enjoy TORNADO BAIT by Amy Eastlake. It's a BooksForABuck.com exclusive and it's only $1. Read a review and the first chapter for free.
- Return to Home
Review of TEN BIG ONES by Janet Evanovich (see her website)
A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL
St. Martin's Press, June 2004
When she accidentally spots a robbery, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the target for a gang assassination plot. Being a target assures Stephanie that sometime boyfriend Joe Morelli will shift into protective mode and, since she insists on keeping her job, mean a fight. Still, Stephanie is a bounty hunter (although a sometimes incompetent one) and she resolves to go on with her mission despite Morelli's resistance. It doesn't help that super-bounty-hunter and occasional backup (and occasional love interest) Ranger is out of town.
With the help of ex-Ho Lulu, Stephanie manages to get her car explosion out of the way quickly, track down another naked bail jumper, deal with a woman who has an obsession for Frito-Lay products (an obsession that seems perfectly understandable to both Stephanie and Lulu), and her sister's suddenly planned wedding (with transvestite Sally Sweet as wedding planner and an eggplant-colored maid of honor dress). Still, staying ahead of a hard-core gang killer is going to take more than Stephanie's normal bungling.
Author Janet Evanovich (see more BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by Evanovich) mixes humor and adventure in another fun-filled Stephanie Plum story. I'm happy to see that, while she still gets into constant mishaps, Stephanie is becoming more competent as a bounty hunter, successfully apprehending at least one suspect without being zapped with a stun gun. The romantic triangle between Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger continues to add sizzle but it seems that Morelli now has a big lead over his rival.
Evanovich provides a consistently high-quality read and TEN BIG ONES is no exception. I couldn't put it down and have no hesitation in recommending it.
Four Stars
Reviewed 7/17/04
Ready to buy it now? Click the buy now button.
Visit Amazon.com to read more reviews or to purchase
TEN BIG ONES from Amazon.com
Rather buy it from Barnes and Noble?
What do you think? Too generous? Too stingy? Or did I miss the entire point? Send your comments to publisher@booksforabuck.com. Give me the okay to use your name and I'll publish all the comments that fit (and don't use unprintable language).
Have a web site? Check out these free services.
Check out the Alexa toolbar. It blocks pop-ups (you get to choose), it's free, and it tells you about what websites are popular and who owns them.
Click this link for
TEN BIG ONES
from Barnes & Noble.com