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Smokin' Seventeen

  • 314 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2011
  • 19 editions

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1 About this book

Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list. Short on time to find the murderer, Stephanie is also under pressure from family and friends to choose between her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger.

Stephanie’s mom wants her to dump them both for a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, suggests a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Joe’s old-world grandmother gives Stephanie “the eye,” which may mean that it’s time to get out of town.

Good for readers who want: a mystery and humor.

  • Mystery
  • Humor
  • Mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Women detectives
  • Murder
  • Stephanie Plum
  • Women bounty hunters
  • New Jersey

2 About Janet Evanovich

Born 1943

Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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