<![CDATA[High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)]]>

false <![CDATA[High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)]]> 6423 26 "Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once in a while at Giovichinni's Meat Market, ordering a quarter pound of olive loaf. Eddie Such, the butcher, would have the olive loaf on the scale and Uncle Fred would say, 'You've got the olive loaf on a piece of waxed paper. How much does that piece of waxed paper weigh? You're not gonna charge me for that waxed paper, are you? I want some money off for the waxed paper.'" The speaker is Stephanie Plum, the glamorous if slightly ditzy bounty hunter from Trenton, New Jersey, and one of the most original creations in recent mystery fiction. In this fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's increasingly popular series, Stephanie's problems are many and varied. She's not making enough money picking up FTAs (Failures to Appear) for her cousin Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds; her red-hot love affair with Detective Joe Morelli has cooled off; and her giant extended family is no help at all. For instance, Uncle Fred the cheapskate has disappeared, leaving behind some suspicious photographs of body parts in garbage bags and links to some really dangerous people. When Stephanie turns to her friend and mentor, Ranger, for financial advice, he gets her involved in a gang of toughs doing instant evictions for landlords. (She complains to Ranger about the job and its dangers, prompting one of the hired thug to say, "Man, you don't like to get shot. You don't like to get arrested. You don't know how to have fun at all.") Most of Stephanie's charm, of course, comes from her attitude--a combination of the brazen bravado that turns a failed lingerie model into a bounty hunter in the first place and the normal fears of a person in over her head. Other Plums in paperback, by the numbers: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, and Four to Score. --Dick Adler 1874115 1999 High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5) total:12561|5:4585|4:5165|3:2567|2:220|1:25| 12561 51746 15164 377 3 2 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 15:04:40 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 17:56:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 16:59:55 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 19:54:25 -0700 2008
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.

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I started reading the 1st page without looking at its premise and was already hooked on Stephanie Plum's explanation on how sh...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 14:54:15 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 02:50:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:51:06 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 08:22:53 -0700 2009 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.

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Another easy, entertaining and...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 07:43:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 22:53:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:05:41 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:28:38 -0800 2009
In High Five, Stephanie Plum doesn't spend a whole lot of time bounty hunting. She does have a couple of FTAs to apprehend but they don't lead her on wild goose chases like her previous ones. Instead, this book focuses on her search for he...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:57:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:04:05 -0700 2009
Another case, another kooky character. Apprehending a three-foot tall man is of course a challenge, but I garnered a lot of raised eyebrows laughing at Stephanie's attempts when reading in public.

One thing, the subject of the main search is lost pretty early. Things are pre...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 17:55:04 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 20:11:24 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 17:21:54 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 15:52:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 09:35:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 09:42:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 18:08:15 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 14:49:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:16:12 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:16:20 -0700 2009
This is an amusing series and this book (5) still delivers. S...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 17:42:58 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 17:48:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 10:05:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:07:50 -0700 2009
"I read about you in the paper," Leona said. "They said your car was bombed!"
"Yeah. And then a garbage truck fell on it."
"It was excellent," Lula said. "It was the shit."
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I didn't realize that it was a series really until I started reading the book, but I was hooked. It wasn't long be...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 21:29:51 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 11:18:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6423