So what does this mean? Has he found a new love? Or is he manipulating Steph, using her in his police investigation, counting on her unmanageable curiosity and competitive Jersey attitude? Morelli, the New Jersey vice cop with the slow-burning smile that undermines a girl's strongest resolve is being polite. Lula's big and blonde and black and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.Īnd to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk - now a wannabe bounty hunter - at her side, sticking like glue. Mystery Guild selection Literary Guild alternate major ad/promo author tour.Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day - for the whole month of January. By turns buttressed and hobbled by her charmingly clueless family and various cohorts (including streetwise co-worker Lulu, detective and heartthrob Morelli and professional bounty hunter Ranger), the redoubtable Stephanie is a character crying out for a screen debut.

Despite her new clownish orange hair job, Stephanie muddles through another case full of snappy one-liners as well as corpses. But when she's repeatedly threatened by men wearing ski masks, she wonders if Mo has company and just might be in over his head. Stephanie suspects that mild-mannered Mo has become a vigilante and is cleaning up the streets in a one-man killing spree. Suddenly, she can't avoid stumbling across the bodies of dead drug dealers: one in a dumpster, one in a closet and four in the candy store basement.

She comes to next to the dead body of her attacker, who turns out to be a well-known drug dealer. While questioning admirers of the man nicknamed Uncle Mo, Stephanie is attacked and knocked out as she cases his candy store. No one wants to help Stephanie, who works for her bail-bondsman cousin, Vinnie. Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter and former lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum (last seen in Two for the Dough) becomes persona non grata when she tracks down a neighborhood saint who has failed to show up for his court appearance.

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich