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99th out of 451 books
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High Five (Stephanie Plum #5)
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. But hey, nobody's perfec
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Hardcover, 292 pages
Published
July 16th 1999
by St. Martin's Press
(first published January 1st 1999)
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Aug 23, 2012
Dorothy
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Fans of mysteries and strong women
Shelves:
modern-day-mysteries,
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I didn't find this entry quite as entertaining as #4, but it held my interest nevertheless.
In it, Stephanie is asked to find her Uncle Fred who has gone missing. As usual with her investigations, this leads her down strange and convoluted but ultimated connected roads.
Her luck (bad) with cars continues. They have a way of getting blown up or disappearing on her.
Her relationship with Morelli continues - on another level. She's moved out of his apartment and called off the sexual affair, but she c...more
In it, Stephanie is asked to find her Uncle Fred who has gone missing. As usual with her investigations, this leads her down strange and convoluted but ultimated connected roads.
Her luck (bad) with cars continues. They have a way of getting blown up or disappearing on her.
Her relationship with Morelli continues - on another level. She's moved out of his apartment and called off the sexual affair, but she c...more
I think my last status update says it all: "These books are such a cocktease." I don't know why I keep checking these out from the library. Some supernatural force keeps pulling me down the Mystery aisle and forcing these books into my hands. I can't explain my fascination otherwise.
I don't really like Stephanie, the mysteries are contrived and ridiculous, her family is annoying, the love triangle is BEYOND frustrating, and the constant addition of "let's see how crazy THIS supporting character...more
I don't really like Stephanie, the mysteries are contrived and ridiculous, her family is annoying, the love triangle is BEYOND frustrating, and the constant addition of "let's see how crazy THIS supporting character...more
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Ah, Stephanie—what has happened to your uncle who seems to have gone missing? Who cares? It’s the journey and not the . . . well, you know the rest. If you are reading this series from the beginning then you will get the jokes i.e. when the fire alarm goes off in the funeral home everyone looks towards Ms. Plum. She has a history. Evanovich has here style of writing perfected (good thing because there are nine more novels in this series)—short pithy sentences, detailing a swiftly moving story. L...more
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I was just about to go out and buy this and Seven Up when I spotted a Bookcrossing copy on a shelf of books waiting to be released. I wasn't sure if I should be glad I'd no longer any need to spend the money or annoyed that I had needlessly stopped at the end of book 4 the other week.
Started this one on Sunday morning and bang! straight back up to speed with Stephanie and the gang. I like the way that the backstory is filled in as and when needed in a quick sentence or two when other authors mig...more
Started this one on Sunday morning and bang! straight back up to speed with Stephanie and the gang. I like the way that the backstory is filled in as and when needed in a quick sentence or two when other authors mig...more
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I was walking around Barnes and Noble book hunting when I came across a yellow book with a colorful title. It reminded me of the 80's and I love 80's-like colors.
I started reading the 1st page without looking at its premise and was already hooked on Stephanie Plum's explanation on how she was much like Barbie without pants. I remembered looking at Barbie dolls as a kid, in the 80's! So I bought the book. Note: im not gay.
80's color theme plus Barbie equals 80's for the win.
Oh, and Evanovich's na...more
I started reading the 1st page without looking at its premise and was already hooked on Stephanie Plum's explanation on how she was much like Barbie without pants. I remembered looking at Barbie dolls as a kid, in the 80's! So I bought the book. Note: im not gay.
80's color theme plus Barbie equals 80's for the win.
Oh, and Evanovich's na...more
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High Five is another quirky, often humorous mystery that features bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. In this book, Stephanie's Uncle Fred has gone missing, and her family thinks that she is just the one to find him. Uncle Fred's disappearance takes a sinister turn when his desk reveals photos of body parts. As Stephanie tries to find out what happened to him, several people she interview turn up dead and she must work to find out who is behind the murders. Stephanie's life is comlicated in this book...more
I’m going to keep this brief, because I know sometimes posts about books that are second, third, or, as in this case, fifth in the series can get kind of tedious to all those who have not read the first few yet. All I will say before I get into things that may be slight spoiler territory is that I have had my ups and downs with this series (none of the books were awful, but some were definitely better than others), but this book was the best yet. The Stephanie Plum series is chick lit with a lov...more
Okay, I really enjoyed this book. Stephanie started off looking for her uncle Fred, and ended up in the middle of money laundering. Short on cash, she decides to take a job from Ranger which ends with Tank getting shot, blowing up an apartment, and her destroying two of his cars. A Porsche and a Beemer. Well, destroying one and loosing the other. And learns that a psycho rapist/killer is out on parole, and is harassing her. Supposedly Ramirez had turned his life over to God, and he told Steph th...more
I swore after slogging through Four To Score that I'd never read another Stephanie Plum book.
So why did I pick up this one? Good question. Maybe because I'm a glutton for punishment. Maybe because I was hoping the series would get better. Maybe because I was hoping Stephanie Plum would get her act together and become a (semi)competent bounty hunter.
Sadly, she hasn't. She still can't find water in a lake and solves her cases by dumb luck. She still can't hang onto a cool car for any length of tim...more
So why did I pick up this one? Good question. Maybe because I'm a glutton for punishment. Maybe because I was hoping the series would get better. Maybe because I was hoping Stephanie Plum would get her act together and become a (semi)competent bounty hunter.
Sadly, she hasn't. She still can't find water in a lake and solves her cases by dumb luck. She still can't hang onto a cool car for any length of tim...more
Once again, Stephanie Plum, and the wacky cast of this series offers another round of fun and frolic in the midst of a mystery story. This time, Stephanie is looking for her Uncle Fred, who went missing after a trip to the garbage company to complain about a lack of service. Things are slow on the bounty hunter job, so she contracts with Ranger to do some higher security jobs. Along the way she runs into bombs, brutes, and wacky senior citizens. Meanwhile she vacillates between her attraction to...more
There's two kinds of secrets, one kind is where nobody knows the secret. And the other kind is where everybody knows the secret, but pretends not to know the secret. This is the second kind of secret.
- Grandma Mazur
You mean Fred has affairs? He's in his seventies!
- Stephanie
Midlife crisis.
- Grandma Mazur
Seventy isn't midlife, forty is midlife.
- Stephanie
Guess it depends how long you intend to live.
- Grandma Mazur
Just so my day isn't a complete waste.
- Morelli
Let me explain my work ethic to you...more
- Grandma Mazur
You mean Fred has affairs? He's in his seventies!
- Stephanie
Midlife crisis.
- Grandma Mazur
Seventy isn't midlife, forty is midlife.
- Stephanie
Guess it depends how long you intend to live.
- Grandma Mazur
Just so my day isn't a complete waste.
- Morelli
Let me explain my work ethic to you...more
I had never heard of Janet Evanovich until a parishioner recommended her to me last week. My parishioner said, "Her books always make me laugh out loud," so naturally I had to try one. Evanovich writes mysteries, but hilarious and completely improbable ones. Her heroine lives in Trenton New Jersey. All the characters are, well, characters, which adds to the humor. In this particular mystery, the killer is apprehended by our heroine, Stephanie Plum, her crazy Grandma Mazur and a 15-year-old, rich...more
This book had to be the most interesting of the five I have read so far. Benito Ramirez is back, Stephanie gets into a brawl with a midget, and her uncle has creepy photos of a dead person hidden away in his desk. What is not to love about this book? I also felt that in this book we got to see Stephanie start to mature a little bit more, she's exercising more and she isn't doing that bad of a job being a bounty hunter/working for Ranger. Except for the explosions, midget brawls, and losing a 15...more
Of the first five novels in the Stephanie Plum series, this has the best setup, the best first chapter. The bounty hunter business is slow, so Stephanie is forced to take a lower-paying bounty: a grouchy, uncooperative, three-foot-tall Little Person. On the day she accepts the assignment, she is summoned by her family to find an elderly uncle who seems to have wandered off, leaving a parked car in a grocery-store lot and some troubling photos in an envelope on his desk.
Her primary love interest,...more
Her primary love interest,...more
Things have been very quiet in the world of Bounty hunter ville , Stephanie is running out of money so she will take whatever case she can including the capture of a little man which will take a turn for the worst when part of his bail agreement till his court date is to stay with Stephanie . If this wasn't enough , she seems to be attracting the attention of alot of males in High Five. From Alan Sempskey, the bank manager - he is one of the people Stephanie has been chatting to for information...more
Another solid installment in Stepahanie Plum's adventures. I enjoyed this book better than the last few. Stephanie is broadening her horizons by working for Ranger in some of his semi-legal ventures. However, most of the narrative is concerned with her hunt for her missing Uncle Fred. It starts out as a family favour but quickly devolves into complex criminal activity that gets her threatened, her cars blown up, and more than one person breaks into her apartment. One of the better villains in th...more
Aug 26, 2011
Michelle♥
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
borrowed,
stephanie-plum-series
So I borrowed this from a friend at work. And I read it at work, whenever it was slow, over the course of two days.
Mind you, I haven't read all of them yet, and I think I might've skipped one...but nonetheless, I liked them broken up, and not read altogher back to back which is what I did when I first started reading this series. It was just monotanous and the same thing kept happening and no character development.
I needed this though. It was fun, short, fast, sweet, and FUNNY! I forgot how Lula...more
Mind you, I haven't read all of them yet, and I think I might've skipped one...but nonetheless, I liked them broken up, and not read altogher back to back which is what I did when I first started reading this series. It was just monotanous and the same thing kept happening and no character development.
I needed this though. It was fun, short, fast, sweet, and FUNNY! I forgot how Lula...more
My review was originally published at our website, http://www.audiobookfans.com
My Review: I can’t seem to say enough wonderful things about Janet Evanovich. She kept the excitement coming with High Five. Stephanie’s Mom and Grandma Mazur ask Stephanie for her help in finding Uncle Fred after he disappears. Uncle Fred is a cheapskate, but Stephanie is sure he’s not a crook. The family dynamics are great and Grandma Mazur always makes me laugh. I’d love to say more about this book, but sadly I can...more
My Review: I can’t seem to say enough wonderful things about Janet Evanovich. She kept the excitement coming with High Five. Stephanie’s Mom and Grandma Mazur ask Stephanie for her help in finding Uncle Fred after he disappears. Uncle Fred is a cheapskate, but Stephanie is sure he’s not a crook. The family dynamics are great and Grandma Mazur always makes me laugh. I’d love to say more about this book, but sadly I can...more
I read this at the beginning of the month! I had a review written but somehow it got deleted from my computer. I was mad so I didn't write another one. It was a dumb move on my part because now I can't remember much of what happened!
Going from my notes:
One of the funniest parts of the book was when they were describing Uncle Fred, the most frugal guy you'd ever meet (that's a nice way of saying it). Anyway, consider this paragraph:
"Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once i...more
Going from my notes:
One of the funniest parts of the book was when they were describing Uncle Fred, the most frugal guy you'd ever meet (that's a nice way of saying it). Anyway, consider this paragraph:
"Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once i...more
I sure would hate to be a car in this book. That is unless I was the Powder Blue Buick.
I loved this one!
Stephanie is certainly coming into her own with the whole "solving things" game. Not necessarily the things she needs to solve, but other things. She was slightly two steps ahead (at least one step) of the cops when it came to figuring things out this round and that was refreshing.
Janet threw in a monkey wrench when it comes to Stephanie's love life. Kind of out of left field, but not unpleasa...more
I loved this one!
Stephanie is certainly coming into her own with the whole "solving things" game. Not necessarily the things she needs to solve, but other things. She was slightly two steps ahead (at least one step) of the cops when it came to figuring things out this round and that was refreshing.
Janet threw in a monkey wrench when it comes to Stephanie's love life. Kind of out of left field, but not unpleasa...more
Latest in my "gotta-get-the-next-Stephanie-Plum-Audiobook!" I'm getting used to the narration and characterization by C.J. Critt, to whom I give kudos for consistency and humor (her "Grandma Mazur" is a perennial hoot). Well, this time, Stephanie's Uncle Fred goes missing and there are the usual sleazy folks, including a garbage company and a cable company (Huh? How in the H*** would THEY be connected? Well, read on!) Of course, the books are becoming formulaic but who cares? The usual character...more
Plot: Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's uncle Fred is missing, Ramirez (One for the Money) is out of jail and looking for her, her little person FTA isn't playing nice, and she starts working for Ranger. This book has a lot of action and a lot of characters. I admit I got a bit lost trying to keep track of everyone, and that was frustrating. (I took off a star for that). Surprisingly, all the plot twists and side plots didn't feel overwhelming, they just kept the story moving along. The theme of St...more
The Stephanie Plum books remain funny. Funny makes up for a lot, and they should be considered primarily humor rather than mystery or detective fiction.
That said, this is book five of the series. Stephanie now has over a year of experience as a bounty hunter, yet she still knowingly goes into danger with her weapons inaccessible. Worse, in this book she knows that there are multiple persons who are stalking her with the intent of killing her, and she still goes blithely around with her weapons i...more
That said, this is book five of the series. Stephanie now has over a year of experience as a bounty hunter, yet she still knowingly goes into danger with her weapons inaccessible. Worse, in this book she knows that there are multiple persons who are stalking her with the intent of killing her, and she still goes blithely around with her weapons i...more
Once again I've finished an another Janet Evanovich book. This time it's High Five. In High Five bail jumping in Trenton is down to a small rate. Stephanie's only open case is a small bond, for a small violation, committed by a small person who raises Stephanie's frustration level in big ways. So, short of money and long on bills, Stephanie comes up with a plan. Signing on as an intern with Super Bounty Hunter Ranger, Stephanie ventures into Ranger's mostly morally correct and "semi" legal opera...more
This series is an amazing good mix of mystery and laughs, and this book doesn't disappoint at all. Stephanie's uncle is missing and even though he was known to be a scrooge, he might have been onto something bad when he disappeared. Stephanie is asked to look for her uncle, while Vinnie doesn't have much work for her. Since money is starting to become a problem, she decides to ask Ranger for some help on getting her a job. Hilarity and explosions ensue. I didn't realise how much I missed big exp...more
I only "Liked" this one, not "Really liked".
If anything this book needed more Morelli. I know, I know, JE is trying to create that nice little love triangle tension point between Morelli-Steph-Ranger. But I started to feel like the Ranger romance was a bit contrived. And there didn't seem to be a single scene where Morelli showed up and Stephanie didn't put him off in some major way. Seriously. Only so much dissing before a guy that delicious will just go away and find himself someone more amen...more
If anything this book needed more Morelli. I know, I know, JE is trying to create that nice little love triangle tension point between Morelli-Steph-Ranger. But I started to feel like the Ranger romance was a bit contrived. And there didn't seem to be a single scene where Morelli showed up and Stephanie didn't put him off in some major way. Seriously. Only so much dissing before a guy that delicious will just go away and find himself someone more amen...more
Hands down Evanovich is my FAVORITE author!! You can always expect to bust out laughing when reading any book in this series. The antics of both Grandma Mazur and Lula make me laugh so much my eyes water...and I don't know who's hotter Morelli or Ranger :-) I'm not going to review each individual book since the series is so long but I will say that every book is well written and Evanovich has THE best writing style around. I'm always blown away by the strong and realistic dialogue which makes th...more
I am so glad that I found this hilarious mystery series about the exploits of Stephanie Plum, the klutzy bounty hunter. I have become invested in the colorful characters.
In this installment, Stephanie is out to find her missing uncle and there are more colorful characters that surface. She stumbles into a major embezzling scheme involving several murders closely related to her uncle's disappearance. Here lies the mystery in the novel.
Her love-life gets a little complicated with both Morelli and...more
In this installment, Stephanie is out to find her missing uncle and there are more colorful characters that surface. She stumbles into a major embezzling scheme involving several murders closely related to her uncle's disappearance. Here lies the mystery in the novel.
Her love-life gets a little complicated with both Morelli and...more
Meh. Maybe because I loved the last one so much or maybe Stephanie Plum makes better choices when she is getting some, but I feel like there was a lot of that old thing that make me nuts in this book. I know that keeping secrets from Joe is part of he thing with him, but in the last book she was making better choices to not go do things that might get herself killed. This time? Not so much. Also I'm feeling a little icky about this developing thing with her and Ranger. I mean, if she was being h...more
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Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and graphic novels, Wicked Appetite (the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series,) and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
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