Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
To the Nines (Stephanie Plum #9)
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
A Stephanie Plum Novel
Janet Evanovich's novels are the hottest bestsellers in America!
# 1 New York Times
# 1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother,...more
A Stephanie Plum Novel
Janet Evanovich's novels are the hottest bestsellers in America!
# 1 New York Times
# 1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother,...more
ebook, 320 pages
Published
May 14th 2008
by St. Martin's Press
(first published January 1st 2003)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
3,000)
Although I had pretty much guessed the outcome of this book early on, it was still a great read. Any time the love triangle between Stephanie, Morelli and Ranger is focused on I am in heaven. And the more danger Stephanie is in, the better those tensions get. Plus this book had the added bonus of a trip to Vegas, which was fun to read about since I live there. Although there were no cars damaged by Steph's bad luck, Ranger's crew getting banged up by her natural ability to be in the middle of ha...more
Nine, I made it to Nine, but alas, I think this is where Stephanie and I must part ways, for the time being at least. Stephanie is once again, the object of some mad man’s sadistic fantasies, but I must confess, I have grown tired of the crime solving scenarios. I’m in this series for three things, Morelli, Ranger, and Lula, the ex ho turned file clerk/ purse welding mo fo. On these fronts, Evanovich did not disappoint. There were some steamy lines, some oogley eyes, and Lula has decided to turn...more
7 likes · like · see review
view all 29 comments
Maybe best Stephanie Plum yet in 9-book series!
We've read all the author's books about Trenton-based bounty hunter Plum, and had feared we were tired of them when in "Seven" and "Eight" the stories seemed weak and the humor forced. "Nines" corrects that with a real pleaser -- plenty of natural humor, an almost gripping plot putting Steph in real danger, and lots of sexual tension with Ranger and Morelli. The other regulars -- Bob the dog, Grandma Mazur, Vinny, the parents, sister Valerie (and f...more
We've read all the author's books about Trenton-based bounty hunter Plum, and had feared we were tired of them when in "Seven" and "Eight" the stories seemed weak and the humor forced. "Nines" corrects that with a real pleaser -- plenty of natural humor, an almost gripping plot putting Steph in real danger, and lots of sexual tension with Ranger and Morelli. The other regulars -- Bob the dog, Grandma Mazur, Vinny, the parents, sister Valerie (and f...more
In the ninth book of the series, Stephanie Plum is after Samuel Singh, a Indian man living and working in Jersey on a visa bond. He seems to have gone missing, only a week before he is scheduled to return home. Not that this is unusual, as his boss explains; many of the foreign temporary workers that he hires get a taste of the American life, and want to stick around. But then there are the flowers that get delivered to Stephanie, with the not-so-sweet notes. And the photographs of dead people!...more
Stephanie Plum - bounty hunter, Jersey Girl... Walking disaster...
Morelli, Ranger, and "His Merry Men" are all once again trying to keep Stephanie safe. After hunting down a Visa skip, Stephanie becomes the target of a psychopathic (or is it psychotic?)cyber geek. The game is on and Stephanie is the prize. He is hunting her down and takes two of the people closest to her as hostages. She has to outwit him in order to save them all. Let me just tell you - the hostage thing had me peeing myself.....more
Morelli, Ranger, and "His Merry Men" are all once again trying to keep Stephanie safe. After hunting down a Visa skip, Stephanie becomes the target of a psychopathic (or is it psychotic?)cyber geek. The game is on and Stephanie is the prize. He is hunting her down and takes two of the people closest to her as hostages. She has to outwit him in order to save them all. Let me just tell you - the hostage thing had me peeing myself.....more
Another great one. I enjoyed reading this one and am hating Joe more and more, while liking Ranger more and more. The crazies are out and the devastation on people instead of cars was pretty good. I'm waiting to see what the pay-back is. That's gonna be gooooood. ;) I loved the characters and the intros of more Merry Men, and their hapless intros to the Bombshell. The ending was page-turning and a little scary. The Eye had a set back but recovered as planned in the end. The family dynamics are g...more
Stephanie Plum does Sister Act II
The mystery surrounding the missing person in this book isn't so much who did it - sorry Janet, that was a bit obvious - but how/why. It took 'til at least three quarters of the way through and memories of some wierd film whose name I can't remember to work that one out. The villan is pretty creepy though and the last bit ... urgh! I think that in terms of sense of menace this is only beaten by the first one.
However, we are talking Stephanie Plum and the gang so...more
The mystery surrounding the missing person in this book isn't so much who did it - sorry Janet, that was a bit obvious - but how/why. It took 'til at least three quarters of the way through and memories of some wierd film whose name I can't remember to work that one out. The villan is pretty creepy though and the last bit ... urgh! I think that in terms of sense of menace this is only beaten by the first one.
However, we are talking Stephanie Plum and the gang so...more
1 like · like · see review
Nov 24, 2008
CJ - Secret Charm
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Plum Fans, Lutz fans
I liked this book because I'm a Stephanie Plum fan but the only thing stopping me from giving my customary 4 stars is that this book seemed to be a little thin on plot. It had a good premise but to me it sort of petered out. This one of the books where I knew who dunnit before Steph did.
I also was caught between liking and getting really bored of the whole Ranger/Morelli think. I don't think she should have her cake and eat it too and I think the character is built to believe that too but it's...more
I also was caught between liking and getting really bored of the whole Ranger/Morelli think. I don't think she should have her cake and eat it too and I think the character is built to believe that too but it's...more
Stephanie is a pawn in a deathly game where instructions are handed by e-mail, and all she was looking for was Samuel Singh - a missing immigrant with a very important bound to Vinnie (her boss). Missing is also Boo, a poodle that seems to be connected with Singh. In the meantime Lula is dieting, Stephanie is back with Morelli and his grandmother's visions of death, and Valerie is about to have a baby and eat the whole country in the process.
I have to say this book would get 5 stars if I didn't...more
I have to say this book would get 5 stars if I didn't...more
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.
But hey, she's from Jersey.
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way...and she always gets her man. In To The Nine
...more
You girls need to watch more television, you need to be more like those Charlie's Angels. Nothing stopped them girls. They could kick doors down in all kinds of shoes."
- The Old man
Why didn't he just come over to my house and feed me rat poison? It would have been an easier death.
- Vinnie
Is that a mocking grin?
- Stephanie
It's the grin of a man who loves you, babe.
- Ranger
My heart skipped around a little and I got warm in places only Morelli should be warming.
- Stephanie
Love?
- Stephanie
There's al...more
- The Old man
Why didn't he just come over to my house and feed me rat poison? It would have been an easier death.
- Vinnie
Is that a mocking grin?
- Stephanie
It's the grin of a man who loves you, babe.
- Ranger
My heart skipped around a little and I got warm in places only Morelli should be warming.
- Stephanie
Love?
- Stephanie
There's al...more
It seems that with the Bond Enforcement agency, new types of bonds are appearing from Custody Bonds in Book #8 and now in #9 Visa Bonds. Vinnie's client Samuel Singh has been missing for five days and this case doesn't look good as due to the first of it's kind - Vinnie's agency has been getting alot of press and now if they can't produce the client - it could turn things for the worst. Desperate to find him, Vinnie pairs up Ranger and Stephanie in the hopes that one of them will bring him back....more
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.
It has been a while since I read one of Janet Evanovich's books and I think that it is safe to say that I missed it. I love the fact that I can pick up these books and just keep reading. Like all of the other Stephanie Plum books before it, To the Nines is just as exciting, action-filled, and sexually-tensioned. Even after taking a break, this was a great book to come back into the series with. Although, I think all of the books are, just as long as you read them in order.
The characters are just...more
The characters are just...more
I love the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books. Steph is possibly the world's worst bounty hunter, working for her cousin Vinnie. Her on-off relationship with cop Joe Morelli, who would really like her to become a housewife, or at least stop being a bounty hunter provides a constant source of witty one liners as does her 'would like to but daren't' relationship with Ranger, a fellow bounty hunter, but probably the best around. Certainly, between Ranger and Morelli, Steph manages to emerge unsca...more
I was born and raised in the mid-west and barely set foot on the eastern side of the Mississippi River, however, after reading this book, I feel like I just moved in with Stephanie Plum's family in Jersey.
I never was one to read many here-and-now type books, but I really enjoyed this one. Her grandmother was nosy. Her sister was due to deliver her third child at any moment and she was a major comfort eater. Her best friend and coworker was obsessed with food and determined to become a supermodel...more
I never was one to read many here-and-now type books, but I really enjoyed this one. Her grandmother was nosy. Her sister was due to deliver her third child at any moment and she was a major comfort eater. Her best friend and coworker was obsessed with food and determined to become a supermodel...more
Stephanie's new sunshine yellow Ford Escape doesn't get blown up - but the body count is unusually high in the ninth installment of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.
To The Nines brings us out west to Las Vegas where the girls - Stephenie, Lula, and Connie - track down a new kind of FTA, one for a Visa Bond. Unfortunately, he is a player in a deadly web game, where the bullets are real and the players kill one another off in order to find out who their final target is. Morelli and Ranger w...more
To The Nines brings us out west to Las Vegas where the girls - Stephenie, Lula, and Connie - track down a new kind of FTA, one for a Visa Bond. Unfortunately, he is a player in a deadly web game, where the bullets are real and the players kill one another off in order to find out who their final target is. Morelli and Ranger w...more
The heroine of these books is Stephanie Plum, an inept bounty hunter from Jersey employed by her cousin Vinnie. In this book Vinnie branches out to include visa bonds in his bail bonds business. As soon as he issues one, the person in question skips out on the bond, and it's up to Stephanie and Ranger to track him down.
Some of the funniest scenes in the book take place when the search takes Stephanie, Lula, and Connie to Las Vegas. Lula is on a diet in order to become a super model and her scen...more
Some of the funniest scenes in the book take place when the search takes Stephanie, Lula, and Connie to Las Vegas. Lula is on a diet in order to become a super model and her scen...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
It is summer. The No Rules Book Club decides to pick a Plum, any Plum, from "One for the Money" through "Sizzling Sixteen" to read and share our favorite Stephanieism, Lula or Grandma Mazur adventure, or unlikely criminal for the entertainment of the group.
We meet on a Saturday afternoon in a bar (Stephanie dosen't drink tea!) order pizza and the fun begins.
The word is out, many of us have been low key in our relaionship to Stephanie, but no more.
There are now 16 books in the series and at lea...more
I think this one I enjoyed more than the last one.
I did however pretty much guess who the baddie was. Okay, I'll admit I had it narrowed down to 2 people, and one of them was correct. The other would have been a good "twist" as well.
Stephanie as a Bounty Hunter has grown up a bit. She felt more comfortable in that role. Mind you, it didn't hurt that she was working with Ranger's Merry Men and they did most of the bone breaking (theirs, which as hilarious) and heavy lifting.
I do understand Stepha...more
I did however pretty much guess who the baddie was. Okay, I'll admit I had it narrowed down to 2 people, and one of them was correct. The other would have been a good "twist" as well.
Stephanie as a Bounty Hunter has grown up a bit. She felt more comfortable in that role. Mind you, it didn't hurt that she was working with Ranger's Merry Men and they did most of the bone breaking (theirs, which as hilarious) and heavy lifting.
I do understand Stepha...more
Samuel Singh violates his visa bond he has with Plum's bond company by going missing, and with the women he rents a room with's dog, Boo. Stephanie, Ranger, Lula and Vinnie are on the mission to find him and bring him back. The mystery begins as why he left and where he is. TriBro Tech is whom Singh was working for as a computer nerd and the three brothers who own the business are all questionable. As Stephanie begins to delve deeper into this case, she finds herself getting photo's left in her...more
Love King on the audio and has everyone down as far as characters! Always drams and lots of laughs...Lulu is a riot!
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is assigned the case of Samuel Singh, an immigrant who has vanished on a Visa bond. The case will take her to Las Vegas, while her personal life involves rooming with Joe, working with Ranger, and dealing with her mother, who is stressed out owing to having Valerie, Steph's sister, in the house, unwed and about to give birth. As usual, there is lots of...more
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is assigned the case of Samuel Singh, an immigrant who has vanished on a Visa bond. The case will take her to Las Vegas, while her personal life involves rooming with Joe, working with Ranger, and dealing with her mother, who is stressed out owing to having Valerie, Steph's sister, in the house, unwed and about to give birth. As usual, there is lots of...more
Nine! I’m on nine! Will I keep reading to the end of the series (fourteen at the moment)? Are cupcakes a major food group? Was Lula a formidable Ho before becoming a filing clerk and sometime partner to Stephanie Plum who systematically destroys at least one car with each case she takes on as a Bail Bondsman—or better known as Bounty Hunter? Well, if course! This time around Lula decides to become a supermodel by attempting every fad diet known to womankind. The ‘all you can eat meat’ diet is hy...more
Definitely not my favourite in the series. Not enough Ranger. Not enough Lula! Since Stephanie and co. didn't really pick up any other skips, not enough hijinks. Too much Morelli. Way, way too much Morelli. I'm nine books in here and I still don't see the Joe Morelli attraction. He just seems like an overbearing asshole! Ranger may not be a realistic choice, but surely there is someone else in Jersey who is better than Morelli and more accessible than Ranger! It's hard for me to accept that ther...more
In To the Nines, Stephanie Plum, reluctant bounty hunter extraordinaire, has a new F.T.A.: Samuel Singh. Unlike the majority of F.T.A.s, Singh is on a worker's visa. He's originally from India. It's very important that Stephanie finds him or else Vinnie will be the laughingstock of New Jersey. That sounds simple enough but nothing is ever simple for Stephanie.
On the journey to locate Singh, she begins to get stalk by someone leaving on red roses and white carnations for her. Along with creepy st...more
On the journey to locate Singh, she begins to get stalk by someone leaving on red roses and white carnations for her. Along with creepy st...more
In this adventure, Vinnie posted bail on an immigrant, Samuel Singh, granting him three months of legal stay in the United States. With just a couple weeks left on his ticket, Singh goes missing. Vinnie puts both Stephanie and Ranger on the case. Unfortunately, the first lead Stephanie gets winds up dead WHILE talking to her.
She starts receiving red roses, white carnations, disturbing notes, and pictures that put the notes to shame. Ranger and his posse take turns watching her back, and though s...more
She starts receiving red roses, white carnations, disturbing notes, and pictures that put the notes to shame. Ranger and his posse take turns watching her back, and though s...more
Jersey Girl Stephanie Plum is back and she's looking for a missing Indian man named Samuel Singh. Stephanie works for her bailbondsman cousin Vinnie. "Vinnie sat on a rotting branch of my family tree." He's a pervert, a con man and a paranoid grouch. He's like Louie De Palma on TV's Taxi. Vinnie wrote the bond ensuring that Singh would leave the country when his work visa expired. Now that Singh's missing (along with Boo the Cockapoo), Vinnie's in a tailspin and assigns Stephanie to work with th...more
I must admit that I wasn't completely convinced that I'd enjoy this book once I started reading it. There was nothing in it that really caught my attention. Mind you, it's the first Evanovich novel I've ever read (I was told you don't have to go in order!!), so perhaps had I started fromt the first, I'd feel differently.
Anyway, turns out that I did in fact like the book. I very much enjoyed her love-triangle-esque relationship with Ranger and Morelli (stil can't decide which I like more...) and...more
Anyway, turns out that I did in fact like the book. I very much enjoyed her love-triangle-esque relationship with Ranger and Morelli (stil can't decide which I like more...) and...more
Nine books and going strong; I really can't believe how much I am still enjoying this series. The Stephanie Plum adventures all follow a certain formula that can make them slightly repetitive plot-wise, but heck, I don't care! The escapades and the characters involved make it all worth it.
Although this was the first Plum mystery I solved before Stephanie did, I still read through with lightning speed to confirm my suspicions. However, I did decide there is something new to love (I seem to find s...more
Although this was the first Plum mystery I solved before Stephanie did, I still read through with lightning speed to confirm my suspicions. However, I did decide there is something new to love (I seem to find s...more
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
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.
Also published books under the name Steffie Hall.
More about Janet Evanovich...
Also published books under the name Steffie Hall.
Share This Book
12 trivia questions
More quizzes & trivia...
“Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.”
—
63 people liked it
cheat sheet.”
“I checked my phone messages. Three in all.
The first was from Joe. “Hey, Cupcake.” That was it. That was the whole message.
The second was from Ranger. “Yo.” Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox.”
—
45 people liked it
More quotes…
The first was from Joe. “Hey, Cupcake.” That was it. That was the whole message.
The second was from Ranger. “Yo.” Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox.”
