Do You Love Janet Evanovich? Have You Heard of Stephanie Plum?

I fell in love with Janet's Stephanie Plum series about eight years ago. I belonged to a book club, and we decided to read One for the Money as one of our monthly selections. It was great! There was excitement, murder, mystery, humor, and romance all wrapped up in one book. I was hooked, I had to go on to the next one. I laughed out loud all the way through Two for the Dough, my husband thought I was nuts (he may be right, who knows?). By now he's used to it, any time I pick up one of Janet's novels, I chuckle all the way through.

This lens is dedicated to my favorite author. If you have never read anything by Janet Evanovich, pick up one of her novels, you won't stop until you have read them all.

In One for the Money , we are introduced to Stephanie Plum, a currently unemployed lingerie buyer. Out of food, and out of money, she goes to visit her cousin Vinnie. She blackmails Vinnie into giving her a job as a bail bondsman.

The first person she is sent to apprehend is Joe Morelli, a Trenton cop accused of shooting someone when he was off duty. Stephanie and Joe go way back. Back behind the counter at the Tasty Pastry several years before that is. Stephanie has a score to settle with Joe, and collecting the $10,000 bond in the process makes the deal even sweeter.

Apprehending Morelli turns out to be harder than Stephanie thought. When she gets on the bad side of boxer Benito Ramirez, Stephanie begins to wonder if maybe she should have just gone to work at the button factory instead.

Are you feeling hot, hot, hot?

You will be before you're done with this book. The first in a Hot new series Janet is co-writing with Leanne Banks.

In Hot Stuff we are introduced to Cate Madigan, a sassy Irish lass with a bright red head of hair. She has sworn off men (haven't we all at one time or another). But she's forced to work with Kellen McBride, a hunky ex-cop, when her apartment is ransacked and her roommate goes missing.

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I recently had the opportunity to review Perfectly Plum: An Unauthorized Celebration of the Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter (Smart Pop series) from BenBella Books. I was a little skeptical at first, since I read the Plum novels purely for entertainment. I was worried the analysis would be negative, or that it would over analyze Stephanie's character.

I found most of the analogies very interesting. The anthology takes a look at how Stephanie's life is like that of Rex the hamster, among other things. I enjoyed how the authors worked quotes from the Plum novels and Plum cultural metaphors into their anthology.

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