Seven Up - Softcover

Evanovich, Janet

4.15

127,078 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312984510 ISBN 13: 9780312984519

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2002

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The smash hit No. 1 bestselling author takes you on the ride of your life in the seventh Stephanie Plum adventure as the Bombshell Bounty Hunter is dropped into a smorgasbord of murder, kidnapping and extortion - a magnificent buffet of fast cars, fast men, and fast food. Stephanie thinks she's going after an easy FTA: a senior citizen charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes. But when she and Lula show up at his house, they get more than they bargained for - a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam. Stephanie's mind is on other matters, however, because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing a single perfect night...

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Stephanie Plum, Janet Evanovich's bounty hunter star of Seven Up, is good at her job partly because of her infinite resourcefulness and partly because her world is one in which everyone on all sides of the law knows at least one member of her extended family. In this, the seventh offering in the Stephanie Plum series, she is chasing an elderly mobster who used to go out with her grandmother. Eddie DeChooch, though, is no less formidable for being old and he constantly eludes Stephanie, the police who want to question him about the corpse Stephanie found in his garage and Joyce, her arch-rival in the bail bond enforcement business. Stephanie's crowded social life gets ever more intense with her family pressing her to name a date for her wedding to Joe, her unreliable cop fianc�, her drastically attractive colleague Ranger, asking her for a night of bliss, her horribly perfect sister Valerie back from California with a down on men and the idiot stoners Moonman and Doug wandering around in super-hero costumes. Evanovich constantly ups the comic ante; DeChooch and his sidekicks manage to be menacingly obnoxious while remaining credibly characters in a farce. The social observation of families is as acute as ever while never passing up the chance for snappy one-liners. Above all, Stephanie herself remains a delightful tone of voice--a heroine considerably braver than she ever lets herself notice and rather smarter an investigator than she or anyone else gives her credit for being. --Roz Kaveney

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'Stephanie Plum...is far from being the best bounty hunter in the world, and likely to admit it, but she is without question the sassiest, most chaotic and funniest of them all' Good Book Guide (Good Book Guide)

Packed with her familiar wicked ear for dialogue, the latest Evanovich will delight her legion of fans - and with good reason. Plum is not just a smart private eye but a heroine with a sense of humour - and that makes her much more fun to be around than female contemporaries like Sara Paretsky's V.I.Warshawski' (Daily Mail)

'In her latest adventure, Steph's on the trial of an elusive OAP gangster with a bullet-riddled body in his shed. Flanked by an excellent supporting cast - her crazy granny, newly lesbian sister and dpe-head friends - and distracted by her juicy love life, Steph's antics make an entertaining mountain out of a molehill. Punchy, saucy and stacks of fun. I'm hooked' Mirror

'Packed with her familiar wicked ear for dialogue, the latest Evanovich will delight her legion of fans - and with good reason. Plum is not just a smart private eye but a heroine with a sense of humour - and that makes her much more fun to be around than female contemporaries like Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski' Daily Mail

'Classic Evanovich...She is simply the best at being irresistibly funny... Buy it, read it - and join the many Evanovich fans' Yorkshire Post

'Fans of Stephanie Plum will love every minute of this fast zany adventure.' Newcastle Journal

'Packed with her familiar wicked ear for dialogue, the latest Evanovich will delight her legions of fans - and with good reason' Daily Mail

'Classic Evanovich...simply the best at being irresistibly funny... Buy it, read it - and join the many Evanovich fans' Yorkshire Post

'Romantic and gripping, this novel is an absolute tonic' Goodhousekeeping

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