Takedown Twenty
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Janet Evanovich
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out. “The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York TimesNew Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because—just Stephanie’s luck—the godfather is his actual godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail. It’s not just Uncle Sunny giving Stephanie the run-around. Security specialist Ranger needs her help to solve the bizarre death of a top client’s mother, a woman who happened to play bingo with Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur. Before Stephanie knows it, she’s working side by side with Ranger and Grandma at the senior center, trying to catch a killer on the loose—and the bingo balls are not rolling in their favor. With bullet holes in her car, henchmen on her tail, and a giraffe named Kevin running wild in the streets of Trenton, Stephanie will have to up her game for the ultimate takedown.
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Author
Janet Evanovich
Pages
320
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2013-11-19
ISBN
9780345542908 0345542908
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"While I did enjoy this book it felt the most repetitive out of all the Plum novels so far. I actually had to stop several times just to double check that I wasn't actually reading an earlier book with the wrong jacket cover on. "
Lize
"I read the first dozen or so of the Stephanie Plumb novels 12 years ago, zipping through my library's available collection (this was 2012ish so there were only 15ish out at the time) over the course of a few months. The books were always a quirky, fun, and quick reads! Since I was looking for something fun and easy that didn't require my full attention, and because ithis one was available immediately on Libby, 20 seemed like a good fit even though I have't read 13-19. Plus side: Stephanie Plum and her shenanigans still make for a quirky and uncomplicated quick read! Minus side: despite skipping 7 books, zero forward progress has really been made.
Stephanie is still the slightly bumbling in-over-her-head bounty hunter, still in love with two different men and unwilling to choose between them (I am am generally fine with the situation, especially since there's zero jealous posturing from either of the aformentioned men, but I am frustrated that she just continues to feel guilty about it instead of picking one, or going for a happy threesome), and still saving the day mostly by accident. Definitely not something I am opposed to, but I will agree the trend is getting a bit stale after 20 books, even if I only read 13 of them."
Maren L
"Two chapters in and Lula and Stephanie have fallen down the stairs, Morelli hinted marriage, Ranger asked her out on a work date, Grandma Bell put the Eye on her. And she's the only one noticing a giraffe running through the streets of Trenton. I'm done. I understand not wanting to kill your cash cow, but at least do your readers the favor of not being so obvious that you are phoning it in. I visualize this book being written the week before it's due at the publisher. Pathetic effort."
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Marcee Feddersen