Title: Tricky Twenty-Two Pdf A Stephanie Plum Novel
Author: Janet Evanovich
Published Date: 2016-11
Page: 352
Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Fox and O’Hare series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Troublemaker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author. ONEGINNY Scoot was standing on a third-floor ledge, threatening to jump, and it was more or less my fault. My name is Stephanie Plum and I work as a bounty hunter for my bail bondsman cousin Vinnie.Ginny had failed to show for a court appearance and it was my job to find her and return her to the authorities. If I don’t succeed my cousin is out his bond money, and I don’t get paid. On the other hand, there’s Ginny, who would prefer not to go back to jail.My colleague Lula and I were on the sidewalk, looking up at Ginny, along with a bunch of other people who were taking video with their smartphones.“This here’s not a good angle for her,” Lula said to me. “Everybody could look up her skirt and see her hoo-ha. I guess technically you could see her thong, but we all know her lady parts are lurkin’ in there behind that little piece of red material and ass floss.”Lula was originally a respectable ’ho. A couple years ago she’d decided to relinquish her corner and take a job as file clerk for the bonds office. Since almost all the files are digital these days, Lula mostly works as my wheelman. She’s four inches too short for her weight, her clothes are three sizes too small for her generously proportioned body, her hair color changes weekly, her skin is a robust dark chocolate.I feel invisible when I stand next to Lula because no one notices me. I inherited a lot of unruly curly brown hair from the Italian side of my family, and I have a cute nose that my grandma says is a gift from God. My blue eyes and pale skin are the results of my mother’s Hungarian heritage. Not sure where my 34B boobs came from, but I’m happy with them, and I think they look okay with the rest of me.Just ten minutes ago I’d almost had the cuffs on Ginny. Lula and I were at her door, and I was giving her the usual bounty hunter baloney.“We need to take you downtown so you can reschedule your court date,” I’d said to Ginny. “It won’t take long.”This was partly true. The rescheduling went quickly. Whether she would make bail again was a whole other issue. If she didn’t make bail she’d be a guest of the penal system until she came up to trial.“Screw you,” Ginny said, and she flicked her Big Gulp at me, slammed her door shut, and locked it.By the time Lula and I got the door unlocked Ginny had climbed out her bedroom window and was standing on a two-foot-wide ledge. So here I was, in a soaking wet shirt, trying to talk Ginny off the ledge.“Okay,” I yelled at her. “I’m out of your apartment. That’s what you wanted, right? Go back inside.”“I don’t want to go to jail.”“It’s not that bad,” Lula told her. “They let you watch television in the dayroom, and you’ll make new friends.”“I’d rather die,” Ginny said. “I’m going to jump.”“Yeah, but you’re only on the third floor,” Lula said. “You’ll just break a bunch of bones. And anyways you never know about these court cases. Sometimes they get dismissed.”“She cut off her boyfriend’s penis,” I whispered to Lula.“It could have been justified,” Lula said.“It was his penis!”“So probably chances of him dismissing the charges aren’t so good,” Lula said. “Men don’t like when you cut their dick off. I hear it’s real hard to sew a dick back on.“If you want to die you have to make sure you land on your head,” Lula yelled up to Ginny. “That probably would do it.”Two Trenton PD squad cars drove up and parked at an angle to the curb. They were followed by a fire truck and an EMS truck.One of the uniforms from the squad car came over to talk to me.“What’s going on?”“She’s FTA,” I told him. “I went to cuff her, and she managed to get away and get out on the ledge.”A satellite truck from the local television station pulled up behind the fire truck.“Can you get someone to talk to her? A relative or her boyfriend?” the cop asked me.“Probably not the boyfriend,” I said.The fire department put a bounce bag on the sidewalk under the window, and a cameraman from the SAT truck started to set up.“You’re not gonna look photogenic when you hit that bounce bag, what with your short skirt and all,” Lula yelled at Ginny. “You might want to rethink this.”Joe Morelli sidled up to me. He’s a homicide detective with the Trenton PD. He’s six foot tall with a lot of lean, hard muscle, wavy black hair, and a smile that makes a girl want to take her clothes off. I’ve known Morelli all my life, and lately he’s been my boyfriend.“Looks like you’ve got a jumper,” Morelli said.“Vinnie bonded her out, and she went FTA,” I told him. “I was about to cuff her, and she ran for the ledge.”“What’s her charge?”“She cut off her boyfriend’s pecker,” Lula said.This got a grimace out of Morelli and the uniform.“Maybe you can talk to her,” I said to Morelli.Morelli had gone from a bad kid to a petty officer in the Navy, and had become a really great cop. He’s smart. He’s compassionate. He believes in the law, the American dream, and the inherent goodness of human beings. If you break the law or step on the American dream, he’ll root you out like a wolverine going after a ground squirrel. He has a house, a dog, a toaster, and a level of maturity I suspect I haven’t yet obtained. The men in his family are drunks and womanizers and abusive. Morelli is none of those. He’s movie star handsome in a Jersey Italian kind of way, and he oozes testosterone. And from the first time he was able to put a sentence together he’s had a reputation for being able to talk a woman into doing anything. He got to peek at my cotton Tinker Bell underpants when I was a little kid, and he relieved me of the burden of my virginity when I was in high school. It seemed to me that sending Morelli up to the third floor to talk a woman off a ledge was a no-brainer.“Is she armed?” Morelli asked me.“I don’t think so.”“No butcher knives? Paring knives? Box cutters?”“Didn’t see any.”He disappeared into the building, and a couple minutes later I saw him at the window. Ginny inched away from him, beyond his grasp. The fire guys moved the bounce bag over to accommodate her. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but I saw her smile. They talked a little longer, she nodded agreement, and inched back toward him. He reached out for her, and when she tried to take his hand she lost her balance, slipped off the ledge, and plummeted to the ground. She hit the bounce bag with a solid thud and didn’t move. The EMTs immediately converged on her.Everyone watching took a sharp intake of air and went silent, focused on the EMTs. I felt Morelli move in behind me, his hand on my shoulder. And suddenly Ginny sat up.“I’m okay!” Ginny said. “Wow, that was a rush. I bet I could be a stunt girl in the movies.”Morelli motioned an EMT over to us.“Is she going to be okay?” Morelli asked.“She just had the air knocked out of her. We’ll transport her to St. Francis Hospital to get checked out and then she’ll be released.”“She’s going to need a police escort,” Morelli said to the uniform who was still with us. “When she’s done at St. Francis she gets booked downtown.”“Boy, for a minute there that was a heart stopper,” Lula said. “I don’t even want to hear anything go thud like that again. That made my stomach feel sick. I need a burger and fries. And then I’m going home on account of my favorite television shows are coming on.” Lula looked over at Morelli and looked back at me. “Do you need me to take you home or are you going with Officer Hottie?”“I’ll take her home,” Morelli said.Lula left, and I followed Morelli to his car. “How did you happen to turn up here?”
Stephanie Plum might not be the world’s greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she’s being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college—and it’s not just Zeta fraternity pranks.
As much as people love Gobbles, they hate Doug Linken. When Linken is gunned down in his backyard it’s good riddance, and the list of possible murder suspects is long. The only people who care about finding Linken’s killer are Trenton cop Joe Morelli, who has been assigned the case, security expert Ranger, who was hired to protect Linken, and Stephanie, who has her eye on a cash prize and hopefully has some tricks up her sleeve.
Not Worth It I've been hanging on to this series for the last few years in hopes that it would return to its former glory (right around book 12 or 13) but sadly this is the end. To be honest, I was expecting to be disappointed but when Evanovich opened the story with the conflict between Morelli and Stephanie I had some hope that this story was not copied and pasted from the last 10 books. Maybe something other than Stephanie's inability to choose between two sexy, at-odds, law enforcement men would not be the focus of the book! Maybe for once, one of the guys will step up and draw the line or Stephanie will put her big girl panties on and choose. It was endearing and understandable in the beginning but now the theme of indecision is tired if not dead. The story ends the same way it has ended for the few books. Morelli doesn't change at all and I was kind of excited and intrigued by what he could be up to if we wasn't a police officer or with Stephanie Plum. Ranger has zero charisma in this book which is a waste of his mysterious and thrilling background.The plot of the book was ridiculous. Stephanie used to get involved in hilarious adventures that were plausible because she was so clumsy and desperate and in New Jersey, the Capital of Weirdness. I think Evanovich is running out of stories for our bounty hunter because she for the last two books (SPOILER ALERT) she has been using terrorism and now bioterrorism. These are serious crimes on a national level. It's not funny because Stephanie is so far out of her depth that there is no way for her to actually stay ahead. The villain is also, for lack of better word, stupid. I miss the gangbangers, the deadly funeral directors, and psychotic gamers. In the past, Trenton and the people living there, provided a rich environment for crazy criminals but now it is a dull background with boring and predictable interactions.Lula and the gang of supporting characters can't help this book. I'm pretty sure that Lula has actually been copied and pasted for the last 5 books. Vinnie isn't remotely funny. Grandma can't even make me laugh! I feel like we have been beat over the head with these character traits for the last few books. The only thing we know for sure is Lula is a big woman with a lot of personality, big appetite, and promiscuous out look on life. Come on, this woman is a former ho! In the beginning she at least had spark and fire but I can't remember the last time she had development. Lula's lack of development is a huge loss. Grandma likes funerals, men and big guns. We get it. Ranger and Morelli are hot and Stephanie can't choose between them. Fine we get it but it's Plum's loss.Stephanie hasn't changed at all. I'm not saying she has to be a badass bounty hunter or become better at everything but she has to make choices. Choices drive a character's development and she has made none of them. She literally muddles through crises as they come up and then goes back to whatever she was doing before . After 22 books and countless adventures she would make a bad mentor to anyone in the bounty hunting business. She could have been hilarious in a teaching role.Sadly I bought this book in Kindle format at 13.99. For the first time I wish I could I could return a Stephanie Plum book.Little Action I think it is time to sign off with this author. No tension and not much action almost as if the author has gotten tired of the characters. Come on Janet, pick up the pace and add some action to the stories!Total rip off. It's not the book, it's ... Total rip off. It's not the book, it's a jerk writing a one page summary of each chapter and then selling it with the title, claiming it's a novel and taking the cash. AVOID J MORGAN!
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