So she scrambles an egg and downs a multivitamin with her orange juice: “A healthy breakfast to start the day off right-just in case I lived through the morning.” The ensuing complications include: Champ Ramirez, that no-account sociopath, freed from the slammer and on the prowl for her hunkish Detective Joe Morelli and his special kind of prowling-everlastingly lustful and now senior bounty-hunter Ranger the dangerous, her erstwhile mentor, casting looks at her that are distinctly non-mentorish. In turn, this has the effect of connecting Steph to various hard guys who mean her serious harm. Soon enough, Steph discovers that dead-head Fred is connected to some high-powered scams nobody would have believed he had the gumption for. Besides, not much is happening in the way of miscreants jumping bail, which means she’s got time on her hands. And either the Plums stick together, Stephanie’s told, or they get picked off separately. Actually, nobody could really miss the disagreeable old coot, but he is family. This time out the trouble (and fun) starts when Steph’s mom informs her that Uncle Fred is missing. Or rather misadventure, since nothing ever goes right for Stephanie, thank heaven. Stephanie Plum, the bodacious bounty-hunter from Trenton, New Jersey, returns for her fifth adventure (Four to Score, 1998, etc.).
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