Explosive Eighteen

Janet Evanovich

Her Hawaii vacation turned into a disaster. Stephanie Plum returns home a day early to get away from a "complicated" situation. Instead she returns to the bail bond trailer (the office is still being rebuilt), gets Lula, and they head out to pick up a few clients so Stephanie can pay her rent.

When she gets home, she finds an odd photo in her satchel. It's not hers. She must have gotten it by accident from her plane seatmate who had a satchel. similar to hers. She's at her mothers, so puts it in the trash. Soon, some shady men appear at her door, claiming to be from the FBI. After shaking them off, another pair of men show up, also claiming to be from the FBI. Then a hit man tries to kill her. Then a woman shows up, asking for a favor. What do they all have in common? All of them want the picture - the one that went out in the trash to the dump. None of them believe her when she says she doesn't know where it is. What is so special about that picture?

In between FBI men, hit men, and insistent women, Stephanie has to pick up some skips. They're not cooperative. There's Bugsy, the guy who keeps stealing her cars. There's Lahonka who keeps stealing identifications and slipping out of Stephanie's hands. And there is Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie's nemesis.

The final problems in Stephanie's life are the two hot men in her life - Morelli and Ranger. She has to keep them apart - and maybe make a decision. Hawaii didn't help that situation at all.

Recently Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels have gotten dumber. But Explosive Eighteen is witty and funny once again. The picture fiasco is murky and comical. The skips each are amusing - almost farcical. Then to all of us who follow Stephanie's personal life is the mystery of Ranger, Morelli, and what happened in Hawaii?

Laugh again at Explosive Eighteen. It is light and entertaining and lots of fun.

Notice:  Strong indecent language, Suggestive dialogue or situations

The Series:

One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
Visions of Sugar Plums
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven on Top
Twelve Sharp
Plum Lovin'
Lean Mean Thirteen
Plum Lucky
Fearless Fourteen
Plum Spooky
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
Sizzling Sixteen
Smokin' Seventeen
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