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Mood: Sleepy ]
[ Currently: Just working on the blog. I know!!!! ]
So the pregnancy related insomnia is really helping my reading. Of course I look awful, but hey, we all got to make sacrifices.
Lean Mean 13 is the thirteenth Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich. Stephanie is a bounty hunter in Trenton New Jersey. She goes after the small time criminals: the flashers, the jaywalkers, the drunk drivers. She is in an on again, off again relationship with a plainclothes cop, Joe Morelli. Stephanie has also attracted the attention of fellow bounty hunter Ranger, who is a walking add for the special forces.
In this installment, Stephanie’s ex husband disappears and everyone thinks Stephanie killed him. She has to find him and clear her name, as other corpses pile up. All while trying to bring in some skips so she can pay her bills.
Plot wise, this is not a revolutionary novel. Where Evanovich shines is her sense of humour. She populates her stories with secondary characters that are zany and off colour. Best of these is Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur. The scene where the old lady invites home a taxidermist for dinner is priceless. Especially when she sits his hostess gift of a stuffed cat at the table. Brilliant.
A nice, funny quick read.