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<\/a>For just plain fun, I adore Janet Evanovich\u2019s Stephanie Plum series, and I\u2019ve also enjoyed some of Evanovich\u2019s forays into other series, sometimes with a co-author.<\/p>\nAs of now, I have a new favorite for Evanovich\u2019s No. 2 series (given that Stephanie Plum will never lose her place as No. 1 in my heart): the Knight-Moon novels.<\/p>\n
The pair, Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, have their action-packed, hilarious debut in Curious Minds<\/em>, Evanovich\u2019s collaboration with Phoef Sutton, an Emmy-winning TV writer and author who teamed with her earlier on Wicked Charms<\/em>, a Lizzy and Diesel adventure.<\/p>\n Riley grew up as a country girl in Texas, the daughter of a sheriff. Her ambitions, however, took her far away from home, and now equipped with degrees in business and law from Harvard, she\u2019s settling in to her new job at the powerful banking firm of Blane-Grunwald in Washington.<\/p>\n Her fast track to success takes a wildly unexpected detour, however, when the bank sends her to babysit Emerson Knight, an extremely eccentric young man who, upon the death of his father, has become also extremely wealthy. Blane-Grunwald wants to continue caring for his wealth.<\/p>\n When she makes a personal-banker call on Emerson at his mansion on the edge of Rock Creek Park, Riley discovers that he does not want to hear her carefully rehearsed platitudes. Really, he doesn\u2019t want to deal with her at all. But since she\u2019s there, he orders her to take him to the bank so that he can see his gold.<\/p>\n Yes, gold. Part of the wealth Emerson has inherited includes gold bars, and he has become suspicious that there might be a problem with his gold \u2013 not to mention everyone else\u2019s gold. Emerson comes to believe there\u2019s a diabolical plot in the works that could disrupt the world\u2019s economies and give someone way too much power.<\/p>\n Riley is initially assigned to keep an eye on Emerson, but she soon finds herself in the thick of whatever it is he\u2019s doing, in fear not only for her job but also for her life. Their investigations take them from Washington to New York City and eventually to Area 51 in the Nevada desert. They run afoul of some very high-level folks.<\/p>\n Emerson is delightfully quirky \u2013 a good-looking (of course) nerd with unexpected talents, whose utter lack of and disregard for social skills make him all the more endearing. Despite her Harvard degrees, Riley often sounds a little gee-whiz, a lot, come to think of it, like Stephanie Plum, but that\u2019s OK. She is, after all, not far removed from her rural Texas childhood, and, besides, who doesn\u2019t love Stephanie Plum?<\/p>\n This book is light entertainment of a high order. It\u2019s funny, fast-moving, surprising and charming. There develops, of course, a spark of attraction between Riley and Emerson as they spend more time together in life-threatening situations, but much is left for the future.<\/p>\n Lorelei King does her usual A-plus job of reading this romp, with just the right amount of irony in her voice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Linda C. Brinson CURIOUS MINDS. By Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. Read by Lorelei King. Random House Audio. 7 hours; 6 CDs. $47. Also available in print from Bantam Books. For just plain fun, I adore Janet Evanovich\u2019s Stephanie Plum series, and I\u2019ve also enjoyed some of Evanovich\u2019s forays into other series, sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,426,14],"tags":[820,887,888],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-popular-fiction","category-thriller-suspense","tag-audio-books","tag-janet-ivanovich","tag-knight-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}