Abandoning the life of a bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum sets out to find gainful employment. It’s amazingly easy. She gets a job immediately, but it’s not getting the jobs that’s the problem, it’s keeping them. Her jobs are but brief stops in the path of life. My favourite was the Kan Klean Dry Cleaners where Stephanie’s every move was watched by the eagle eyes of Mama Macaroni, and of course the mole - ‘the mole’ could probably justify an entire book.
Of course the loss of these jobs is not actually Stephanie’s fault - she is being stalked by a maniac intent on killing her, but by which of the maniacs she has run into in her colourful life, remains to be seen.
Sister Valerie is a matter of days from tying the knot with Krough, and life is fraught at the Plum homestead. Lula has taken over Stephanie’s role as Bounty Hunter but seems to want Stephanie along on all her jobs. And of course Grandma Mazur is still regularly attending the local mortuary, a bit like you and I do the local pub - to relax and meet people!
There are those who say that maybe the Stephanie Plum books have run their course, but they obviously haven’t read Eleven On Top - it’s one of the best. Still present in her life are Ranger and Morelli, two very different men with similar goals.
Apart from Cue the Easter Bunny by Liz Evans, I haven’t laughed so much
for ages. If you are a believer in ‘laughter being the best medicine’ best buy
this book, it will not disappoint.
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Lizzie Hayes
Earlier books in the series are One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three
to Get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five, Hot Six, Seven Up, Hard Eight, To the
Nines, and Ten Big Ones.