Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,   Tricky Twenty- Two is written by Janet Evanovich and is the twenty-sixth book in her popular series. It is published by Penguin Random House under their Bantam Books imprint. In it, we see that Stephanie Plums is still surviving her day-to-day bounty-hunting gig at her cousin, Vinny's, bail bonds office   When Dean Mitner of Kiltman College is assaulted by a student, the youth is bonded-out by cousin Vinny's office, who promptly disappears. Vinny sends Stephanie out to investigate the student's possible whereabouts. But Ken Globovic (AKA Gobbles) is a popular student with a network of friends and fans that are keeping him hidden.      Stephanie is also hired by Ranger to guard a business partner of a dead man, named Harry Getz. The partner, Doug Linken, and his wife, Monica, wish to attend Getz's funeral. But since they are the prime suspects in the community's eyes in Getz's homicide, it is unwise to arri...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,           Top Secret Twenty-One is written by Janet Evanovich and published by Bantam Books, a division of Random House. In this twenty-fifth book in the series, we find our heroine, Stephanie Plum, working through the everyday motions as a bond enforcement agent for her cousin Vinny's Bail Bonds office. Stephanie is inept with a gun and prone to having her car blown up.  In Top Secret Twenty-One a famous used car salesman, Jimmy Poletti, is caught selling a lot more than cars at his dealerships. He is bonded through Vinny's office and conveniently misses his court date. That is when dead bodies begin to show up, and various explosions are detonated in the hopes of killing Poletti's bookkeeper, Randy Briggs.     But Poletti and Randy Briggs are the least of Stephanie's worries. Ranger's off...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Takedown Twenty is the twenty-fourth novel in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. Published by Penguin-Random House under their Bantam imprint, Takedown Twenty pits Stephanie Plum against everyone's favorite Mafioso, Salvatore Sunucchi, who just happens to be godfather to Stephanie's boyfriend, Joe Morelli.     And of course, the Failure to Appear folders are not getting any smaller. This also sends Stephanie on the hunt for Mary Treetrunk (a pot-growing dealer who always smells of dead fish) and Antwan Brown (a 19-year-old wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon). This is my favorite part of the series. Stephanie's skips always are entertaining to read about, and sometimes provide her with some needed help. In this book, they add to the frenzy of near-misses for Stephanie since Uncle Sunny not only is protected by Grandma Bella, but also by a shotgun-toting girlfrien...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Takedown Twenty is the twenty-fourth novel in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. Published by Penguin-Random House under their Bantam imprint, Takedown Twenty pits Stephanie Plum against everyone's favorite Mafioso, Salvatore Sunucchi, who just happens to be godfather to Stephanie's boyfriend, Joe Morelli. After skipping out on his bail, Sunny is in hiding with the help of Morelli's crazy, old-world grandmother, Bella. As she investigates Sunny's whereabouts, Stephanie is pulled into another case involving the murder of elderly women throughout New Jersey. With the help of Ranger and her Grandma Mazur, Plum begins to get closer to finding the killer only to have Grandma Mazur become the killer's next target.    This installment changed up the formula of the series by focusing more on the murder mystery rather than Stephanie's attraction to Morelli and Ranger. There was a lot of soul-search...