{"id":2416,"date":"2019-01-06T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2019-01-06T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:53:01","slug":"stephanie-plums-latest-adventure-is-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Plum’s latest adventure is delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda C. Brinson<\/p>\n

LOOK ALIVE TWENTY-FIVE. By Janet Evanovich. Penguin Audio. 7 hours; 6 CDs. Read by Lorelei King. $32. Also available in print from G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stephanie Plum, the not-very-intrepid bounty hunter in Trenton, N.J., somehow finds new ways to career more or less unscathed through her zany, dangerous and outrageous life. That\u2019s welcome news for fans of the prolific Janet Evanovich and Stephanie, her finest creation.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think Evanovich would run out of crazy ways for Stephanie to get into trouble as she pursues the criminals who have run out on the bail her cousin Vinnie provided them. But her fertile imagination comes through again in \u201cLook Alive Twenty-Five.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through a series of circumstances including her habitual shortage of money and Cousin Vinnie\u2019s deal-making, Stephanie suddenly finds herself managing the Red River Deli in Trenton. Lula, the colorful former ho\u2019 who\u2019s her sidekick in the bond enforcement business, joins her with enthusiasm. After all, what\u2019s not to like about a job that includes free food?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, there\u2019s a lot not to like, starting with the fact that Stephanie\u2019s three most recent predecessors as deli manager have disappeared mysteriously, in quick succession, leaving only one shoe behind.<\/p>\n

As the disappearances continue, Stephanie finds the two men in her life, her boyfriend, Joe Morelli, a homicide detective who\u2019s working the disappearance cases, and Ranger, the mysterious and very sexy head of a security company with whom she has a \u2013 shall we say? \u2013 complicated relationship, teaming up to make sure she and her shoes are safe 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

Stephanie\u2019s running pretty ragged trying to keep the deli functioning while pursuing her bail-jumpers as time allows. As usual, there are always unexpected complications surrounding the people she\u2019s trying to haul into court, complications such as feral chickens and cat kidnapping.<\/p>\n

After an employee Ranger assigns to protect Stephanie becomes one of the half-shod kidnap victims, Ranger, Stephanie and Morelli are all united in the quest to find out who\u2019s doing the snatching, and why. \u00a0Oh, and Wolf, the man (or is he really human?) who appears from time to time in her locked apartment and then vanishes in a puff of smoke, is also involved in the quest. The stakes get higher as some corpses start to appear.<\/p>\n

And Stephanie\u2019s balancing act gets even more challenging when the disappearances and Lula\u2019s unorthodox waitressing and sandwich-making talents turn the deli into a social media sensation.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the breakfast burrito food truck incident. But really, there\u2019s no need for spoilers. If you\u2019re a fan of Stephanie\u2019s grab this book. If you\u2019re not, why not?<\/p>\n

As always, Lorelei King does a terrific job of bringing the story to entertaining life in the audio version.\u00a0 Her range of voices and accents is amazing.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Linda C. Brinson LOOK ALIVE TWENTY-FIVE. By Janet Evanovich. Penguin Audio. 7 hours; 6 CDs. Read by Lorelei King. $32. Also available in print from G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons. Stephanie Plum, the not-very-intrepid bounty hunter in Trenton, N.J., somehow finds new ways to career more or less unscathed through her zany, dangerous and outrageous […]<\/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],"tags":[473,373,115],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-popular-fiction","tag-audiobooks","tag-janet-evanovich","tag-stephanie-plum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}