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Three To Get Deadly (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
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Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum #3) by Janet Evanovich
Synopsis /
Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.
And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking like glue. Lula's big and blonde and black and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car.
Morelli, the New Jersey vice cop with the slow-burning smile that undermines a girl's strongest resolve is being polite. So, what does this mean? Has he found a new love? Or is he manipulating Steph, using her in his police investigation, counting on her unmanageable curiosity and competitive Jersey attitude?
Once again, the entire One for the Money crew is in action, including Ranger and Grandma Mazur, searching for Mo, tripping down a trail littered with dead drug dealers, leading Stephanie to suspect Mo has traded his ice-cream scoop for a vigilante gun.
Cursed with a disastrous new hair colour and an increasing sense that it's really time to get a new job, Stephanie spirals and tumbles through Three to Get Deadly with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.
My Thoughts /
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich is the third book in the Stephanie Plum series. And, continuing on with my previous praise for my local library….this third book is available in largeprint (#allhailandpraise)!!
Let me begin by telling you that this latest instalment……if I’m COMPLETELY honest, is really only a 3 to 3.5 star read. However, this series, as a whole, is such a joy to read and there is so much I like about it that I’m giving it a 4-star rating.
Book 3 has my favourite bounty hunter in the making, Stephanie Plum, back in action surrounded by all the eccentric and quirky characters from the previous books. Evanovich certainly knows how to bring her characters to life. Stephanie:- she eats junk food, oozes sarcasm, loves her hamster, Rex and is a Jersey girl through and through.
And I, Stephanie Plum, 125 pounds, five feet, seven inches, brown-haired, blue-eyed bounty hunter at large, have just been assigned the task of hauling Uncle Mo’s revered ass off to jail.
Ranger:- fellow bounty hunter; a man of mystery; a man of few words; he who has an aura of intensity surrounding him.
Ranger has been my mentor when I’d started in the business and was one very bad bounty hunter. In this case, bad meaning ultracool. He’d been one of those army guys who went around disguised as the night, eating tree bark and beetles, scaring the bejeezus out of emerging third world insurgents.
But in this instalment we get a glimpse of a (dare I say), lighter side to this man of mystery, when he ends up at Steph’s parents’ house for dinner. He is always there to lend a hand whenever Steph needs one.
Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.
This story has Stephanie Plum assigned the case of “Failure to Appear” for Moses Bedemier, otherwise known as “Uncle Mo” to practically EVERYONE in Trenton, New Jersey. Uncle Mo owns and operates the town’s local convenience store and, as Steph quickly finds out, Uncle Mo seems to be the entire town of Trenton’s favourite senior citizen. It did seem a little strange to Steph that Uncle Mo jumped bail on a minor charge of carrying a concealed weapon but, she’s been assigned the FTA task so will do her utmost to track down the nicest guy in the neighbourhood so he can reappear in court.
He [Vinnie] was a bail bondsman, which meant he loaned people money to post the bond set by the court. The bond’s purpose was to make it economically unpleasant for the suspect to skip town. Once the bond was posted the incarcerated suspect was set free, enabling him to sleep in his own bed while awaiting trial.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there's something more going on here than a simple FTA on a concealed weapon charge. And, as usual, our girl Steph has an uncanny knack for walking right into the middle of things. Pretty soon the case escalates – there are attacks by strange unknown anti-drug vigilantes – and the body count of murdered local drug dealers is on the rise!! Despite all the hostility she’s copping from the public by tracking Trenton’s No. #1 good guy citizen; Steph is taking bullets from another angle. What is the connection between Uncle Mo and the bad guys? And more importantly, why do a bunch of masked thugs – keep trying to knock her off! All she wants is for people to stop shooting at her and threatening violence against her hamster!
I wasn’t a bad person. I only cheated a little on my taxes, and I paid most of my bills. I didn’t cuss at old people (at least not to their faces). I didn’t do drugs. So why was I having such rotten luck?
This was such an easy read. You aren’t busily trying to work out the mystery, the whodunnits. You are here in the present for the pure joyful entertainment; for the laugh out loud humour as you thank the stars that gun-toting Grandma Mazur isn’t in your family tree; or that Lula (the 230lb ex-hooker now bounty hunter trainee) isn’t your sidekick. Although maybe some of you wish she were. This author has a fabulous dry wit and impeccable comedic timing and her characterisations are authentic.
If you have made it to here in my review – kudos to you. I know the one burning question left for you to ask is – ‘What happened to Rex???????’ Chill. Be cool. All is well. He’ll be back in book 4…..I think.
Synopsis /
Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January. She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.
And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking like glue. Lula's big and blonde and black and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car.
Morelli, the New Jersey vice cop with the slow-burning smile that undermines a girl's strongest resolve is being polite. So, what does this mean? Has he found a new love? Or is he manipulating Steph, using her in his police investigation, counting on her unmanageable curiosity and competitive Jersey attitude?
Once again, the entire One for the Money crew is in action, including Ranger and Grandma Mazur, searching for Mo, tripping down a trail littered with dead drug dealers, leading Stephanie to suspect Mo has traded his ice-cream scoop for a vigilante gun.
Cursed with a disastrous new hair colour and an increasing sense that it's really time to get a new job, Stephanie spirals and tumbles through Three to Get Deadly with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.
My Thoughts /
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich is the third book in the Stephanie Plum series. And, continuing on with my previous praise for my local library….this third book is available in largeprint (#allhailandpraise)!!
Let me begin by telling you that this latest instalment……if I’m COMPLETELY honest, is really only a 3 to 3.5 star read. However, this series, as a whole, is such a joy to read and there is so much I like about it that I’m giving it a 4-star rating.
Book 3 has my favourite bounty hunter in the making, Stephanie Plum, back in action surrounded by all the eccentric and quirky characters from the previous books. Evanovich certainly knows how to bring her characters to life. Stephanie:- she eats junk food, oozes sarcasm, loves her hamster, Rex and is a Jersey girl through and through.
And I, Stephanie Plum, 125 pounds, five feet, seven inches, brown-haired, blue-eyed bounty hunter at large, have just been assigned the task of hauling Uncle Mo’s revered ass off to jail.
Ranger:- fellow bounty hunter; a man of mystery; a man of few words; he who has an aura of intensity surrounding him.
Ranger has been my mentor when I’d started in the business and was one very bad bounty hunter. In this case, bad meaning ultracool. He’d been one of those army guys who went around disguised as the night, eating tree bark and beetles, scaring the bejeezus out of emerging third world insurgents.
But in this instalment we get a glimpse of a (dare I say), lighter side to this man of mystery, when he ends up at Steph’s parents’ house for dinner. He is always there to lend a hand whenever Steph needs one.
Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.
This story has Stephanie Plum assigned the case of “Failure to Appear” for Moses Bedemier, otherwise known as “Uncle Mo” to practically EVERYONE in Trenton, New Jersey. Uncle Mo owns and operates the town’s local convenience store and, as Steph quickly finds out, Uncle Mo seems to be the entire town of Trenton’s favourite senior citizen. It did seem a little strange to Steph that Uncle Mo jumped bail on a minor charge of carrying a concealed weapon but, she’s been assigned the FTA task so will do her utmost to track down the nicest guy in the neighbourhood so he can reappear in court.
He [Vinnie] was a bail bondsman, which meant he loaned people money to post the bond set by the court. The bond’s purpose was to make it economically unpleasant for the suspect to skip town. Once the bond was posted the incarcerated suspect was set free, enabling him to sleep in his own bed while awaiting trial.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there's something more going on here than a simple FTA on a concealed weapon charge. And, as usual, our girl Steph has an uncanny knack for walking right into the middle of things. Pretty soon the case escalates – there are attacks by strange unknown anti-drug vigilantes – and the body count of murdered local drug dealers is on the rise!! Despite all the hostility she’s copping from the public by tracking Trenton’s No. #1 good guy citizen; Steph is taking bullets from another angle. What is the connection between Uncle Mo and the bad guys? And more importantly, why do a bunch of masked thugs – keep trying to knock her off! All she wants is for people to stop shooting at her and threatening violence against her hamster!
I wasn’t a bad person. I only cheated a little on my taxes, and I paid most of my bills. I didn’t cuss at old people (at least not to their faces). I didn’t do drugs. So why was I having such rotten luck?
This was such an easy read. You aren’t busily trying to work out the mystery, the whodunnits. You are here in the present for the pure joyful entertainment; for the laugh out loud humour as you thank the stars that gun-toting Grandma Mazur isn’t in your family tree; or that Lula (the 230lb ex-hooker now bounty hunter trainee) isn’t your sidekick. Although maybe some of you wish she were. This author has a fabulous dry wit and impeccable comedic timing and her characterisations are authentic.
If you have made it to here in my review – kudos to you. I know the one burning question left for you to ask is – ‘What happened to Rex???????’ Chill. Be cool. All is well. He’ll be back in book 4…..I think.
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Reading Progress
July 17, 2022
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Started Reading
July 17, 2022
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July 17, 2022
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local-library
July 17, 2022
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mystery-murder
July 17, 2022
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humour
July 18, 2022
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47.73%
"I wasn’t sure why I was still working for Vinnie. I suspected it had something to do with the title. Bounty Hunter. It held a certain cachet. Even better, the job didn’t require panty hose."
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July 19, 2022
– Shelved as:
4-stars
July 19, 2022
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read-2022
July 20, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Barbara wrote: "Very thorough review Angela! I've read one of hers, I need to get back to her novels."
Thanks Barbara! Yes, these series is a firm favourite of mine and, thankfully, there are lots of books in the series!
Thanks Barbara! Yes, these series is a firm favourite of mine and, thankfully, there are lots of books in the series!
You write very well indeed. This review seems to have been a delight for you to write. Kudos for the well formed ideas and clarity of thought! 😊🤍
Luffy wrote: "You write very well indeed. This review seems to have been a delight for you to write. Kudos for the well formed ideas and clarity of thought! 😊🤍"
Aww, you are too kind Luffy my friend! xx 💕
Aww, you are too kind Luffy my friend! xx 💕
Kay wrote: "Glad you continue to enjoy this series Angela. I've yet to go back to these earlier ones. 😊"
Thanks Kay! I really have no idea how the series is going to progress but it will be a fun ride either way. 😊📚💕
Thanks Kay! I really have no idea how the series is going to progress but it will be a fun ride either way. 😊📚💕
Wonderful review, Angela! I am glad you continue to enjoy this series. Even though this wasn't a favorite, I am glad that it was still fun and easy to read!
Haha - yes, totally bad form. Got to murmur those cusses quietly under your breath!!!