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Smokin' seventeen

by Evanovich, Janet.

Format: Book on CD 2011
Availability: Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy

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Upper St. Clair Township Library Audiobooks EVANOVICH Janet
Location  Upper St. Clair Township Library
 
Collection  Audiobooks
 
Call Number  EVANOVICH Janet
 
 

Summary
When dead bodies are discovered at the site of the former Vincent Plum Bail Bonds office, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself targeted by a killer. On the personal front, Stephanie is one step closer to choosing between the men in her life, Morelli and Ranger. However, her mother is pressing her to choose a former high school football star who recently returned to town. With a deadly killer on her heels and fugitives to apprehend, Stephanie is running out of time.
Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. The bail bonds office has burned to the ground, and bodies are turning up in the empty construction lot. To make matters worse, Stephanie is working out of a motor home she shares with a dancing bear, and Joe Morelli's old world grandmother has declared a vendetta against her. And just when Stephanie decides it might be time to choose between the two men in her life, Morelli and Ranger, a third man from Stephanie's past moves back to Trenton...Break out a cold drink and slap on some sunscreen, this summer is sure to be a scorcher with Smokin' Seventeen.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "Things are not going well for the Jersey Girl bail-bondswoman Stephanie Plum or for her creator. Stephanie's sometimes-boyfriend Morelli's grandma Bella has put the evil eye on her, and Evanovich seems to be running out of steam in this long-running series. Worse, the story ends with Stephanie going off to Hawaii with & whom? Her cousin Vinny's bail-bonds office is now run temporarily out of stoner Mooner's van, since the office was incinerated. Her sidekick Lula's gone from bigger-than-life to complete cliche (there is a Lula food fight, but it is Stephanie who ends up smelling of sauerkraut). There are a couple of very scary villains, one of whom Stephanie's mother and grandmother are trying to set her up with, although his creepiness only comes out slowly. There's also a vampire story line we kid you not! And besides Morelli, there is Ranger, the other man in Stephanie's life. This long-running series, starting with One for the Money (1994), used to be funny and sexy and smart, but the characters are sketched in increasingly broad strokes and are no longer growing or learning or changing. Or very much fun this outing. To end on a cliff-hanger is just mean.--DeCandido, GraceAnne A. Copyright 2010 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "In Evanovich's 17th installment in the Stephanie Plum series, everyone's favorite bumbling bounty hunter is still torn between the two men in her life-security expert Ranger and tough guy cop Joe Morelli-and still watching bodies pile up around her. With family members attempting to play matchmaker and a serial killer dumping bodies all over Plum's stomping grounds, little has changed in dark and seedy New Jersey. Lorelei King-a veteran Evanovich narrator-slips back into the series and voices Plum with the greatest of ease, clearly enjoying herself from beginning to end. Her narration is effortless yet highly nuanced, funny, and entertaining. King produces a range of unique voices for the book's many characters and offers up a winning performance that will delight Evanovich fans. A Bantam hardcover. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information
Series Stephanie Plum series
Features Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey
#1 - One for the money
#2 - Two for the dough
#3 - Three to get deadly
#4 - Four to score
#5 - High five
#6 - Hot six
#7 - Seven up
#8 - Hard eight
#9 - To the nines
#10 - Ten big ones
#11 - Eleven on top
#12 - Twelve sharp
#13 - Lean mean thirteen
#14 - Fearless fourteen
#15 - Finger lickin' fifteen
#16 - Sizzling sixteen
#17 - Smokin' seventeen
#18 - Explosive eighteen
#19 - Notorious nineteen
#20 - Takedown twenty
#21 - Top secret twenty-one
#22 - Tricky twenty-two
#23 - Turbo twenty-three
#24 - Hardcore twenty-four
#25 - Look alive twenty-five
#26 - Twisted twenty-six
Subjects Plum, Stephanie -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Women bounty hunters -- Fiction.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Audiobooks.
Publisher New York : Prince Frederick, MD :Random House Audio ;2011
Distributed by Recorded Books,
Edition Unabridged.
Contributors King, Lorelei, narrator.
Random House Audio Publishing.
Recorded Books, LLC.
Participants/Performers Read by Lorelei King.
Language English
Notes Compact disc.
Title from container.
In container (17 cm.).
"Stephanie Plum Series #17"--Container.
Description 5 audio discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN 9780307932235
0307932230
9780449009536
044900953X
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