Book 41 - Four to Score

Originally posted 05-25-07!

Title: Four to Score
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 313
Grade: A

Summary: (From Publisher's Weekly)
There's no such thing as a simple assignment for Stephanie Plum. When Maxine Nowicki, charged with stealing her boyfriend's car, skips her court appearance, she's fair game to be hauled in. No big challenge, thinks Stephanie. Wrong. Before the case is over, Stephanie will invade an Atlantic City casino with her intrepid allies: sneaker-shod Grandma Mazur; her colleague Lula, "a two-hundred pound black woman with blond baloney curls all dressed up like Cher on a bad day"; and Sally, a seven-foot transvestite rock singer. Although Stephanie is the bounty hunter, she's the only one of the quartet who isn't armed. She also loses another car and her apartment, moves in with handsome cop and longtime love interest, Joe Morelli (causing a stir in his family and hers), has several memorable run-ins with arch rival Joyce Barnhardt, discovers a corpse and, finally, catches her quarry.

My thoughts: I've begun to realize...these books really are my bad crack. They aren't masterpieces of literature and the main mystery isn't all that thrilling....but I love these characters. And I never fail to laugh. And sometimes that is exactly what a book should be for.