Over the course of the previous week I breezed through popular author Janet Evanovich's next two books in her Stephanie Plum bounty hunter series: Two For the Dough and Three to Get Deadly, published in 1996-97. Once again New Jerseyite Stephanie Plum is learning her newly adopted trade of chasing down bail jumpers and hauling them to the police, with the failures usually prevailing. In Two For the Dough three men...one she's pursuing as bounty hunter, one shot supposedly by whom she's after, and one managing a funeral parlor...are friends with each other from childhood, but also seemed entangled in a web of arms theft, killing, and indimidation. Stephanie's Grandma Mazur, an avid fan of funerals, helps her to infiltrate that scene...with predictably hilarious results. In Three to Get Deadly Stephanie enlists the aid of her friend, a former prostitute name Jackie, to try to catch Moses "Uncle Mo" Bedemier, a local candy-store owner almost universally adored by the community...including her own family. Stephanie naturally gets a lot of static when folks learn she is going after good ol' Uncle Mo. Also there seems to be a rash of killings of drug dealers in town...is there any connection to Mo? In both stories, the author inserted police detective Joe Morelli as Stephanie's romance interest...as well as an informal partner in solving the mysteries. And Richard "Ranger" Mansoso continues to instruct and assist the budding bounty hunter with her adventures...
The next book...which I've already lined up to read...is Four to Score. Janet Evanovich has been very disciplined about putting out a new Stephanie Plum novel each year...George R.R. Martin could use a little of her consistency as he seems to be in no hurry to finish the next book of his A Song of Ice and Fire series...also known as "Game of Thrones". Not that Janet's series is anywhere nearly as complicated as Martin's...but who's to blame for that?
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