Seven Up - Hardcover

Evanovich, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312265840 ISBN 13: 9780312265847

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2001

Synopsis

When a senior citzen is charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes, Stephanie Plum and Lula get more than they bargained for--a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam--but Stephanie is more focused on vice cop Joe Morelli who has proposed marriage and a fellow bounty hunter Ranger who is proposing one perfect night. 400,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

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 fiancé, 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

Review:

`highly entertaining' The Mail on Sunday (The Mail on Sunday)

'Janet Evanovich has created another crazy crime caper that leaves you open-mouthed with either shock or laughter.' What's On (Kent) (What's On (Kent))

'Almost every chapter has a laugh-out-loud moment... Funny, sexy, scary - how can we wait till next year?' Booklist (Booklist)

'Expect a laugh per page...a clever cast of good-hearted hoods and nutty family members to rival The Sopranos... Bottomline: Plum Pick' People Magazine (People Magazine)

Laughter, thrills, its all here. (Nottingham Evening Post)

Janet Evanovich is like the Milton Berle of mystery writers... Frolicsome, farcical and... great fun to read (Washington Post Book World)

Evanovich's great gift is an ability to create situations zany enough to provoke bursts of laughter but so grounded in the realities of working-class life that they are totally believable (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Hanging out with Stephanie Plum is like taking 6-year-old twins shopping - the harder they try to behave themselves, the more chaos they leave in their wake (New York Times Book Review)

'Janet Evanovich's madcap comic mystery is pure, classic farce - Jersey Girl style' New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review)

'Another outing for irrepressible, unforgettable bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, this time on the trail of a murderous senior citizen. Fast and very funny' Woman & Home (Woman & Home)

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312265840
• ISBN 13: 9780312265847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309