I always feel a bit weird reviewing books that come along in a series. I feel as though I should try to entice people to read the first book and don’t really speak to the merits of the most recent book I’ve read. With that said, please pardon this crappy post.

In short, the Stephanie Plum books (the first of which was turned into a movie with Katherine Heigl a few years ago) follow a sassy Jersey girl whose bread-and-butter lifestyle gets turned upside down when she takes up a job as a bounty hunter for her cousin Vinnie. With a host of hilarious side kicks, crazy hijinks, and a family that you will love and laugh with, these books are quick and delicious reads that appeal to any chick-lit and mystery lover.

This book in particular follows Stephanie as she does her parents’ neighbor a favor, searching for a missing mother and daughter. In her pursuit of information, Stephanie realizes she’s not the only person looking for the pair, and she crosses path with some seriously scary gangsters that pull Stephanie even further into the action. With a new sidekick of a bumbling lawyer who works out of a laundromat, Evanovich proves she’s still got a host of unforgettable characters up her sleeve as Stephanie dives into another mystery.

Like in all series, some Stephanie Plum books are better than others, and this one was especially good. I can’t even recall the amount of times I laughed out loud during my reading, but I have to say, overall, this was a great pick-me-up read.