I think Janet Evanovich is becoming much too formulaic in these books. This one starts out with Lula and Stephanie in the usual mix of eating, complaining and trying to make a living at Vinnie's Bail Bonds. The first 3rd of the book is really boring and focuses too much on Lula. I liked these books better when Lula was there as any minor character in Stephanie's life. She has become too much of a focus and really drags the story down.

Once Morelli and Ranger enter this story, it finally starts to pick up. The plot centers around dead bodies that turn up in the vacant lot of the bail bonds business. It turns out the bodies are from people who were in a weekly poker game and they are some very unsavory characters in deed.

As the story moves on, Stephanie's mom is trying to fix her up with a "nice" young man, a woman is trying to run Stephanie down in her car and there a bunch of FTAs (failed to appear in court) people she needs to capture, as part of her job as a bounty hunter.

The story has its funny parts, but I figured out the killer less than half way through the book and there was a lot that I didn't care about. This book is fine easy summer reading, but I think Evanovich needs to take a breather on these, so she can breathe a little more life into them.