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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s got a lot on her mind. How does cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch, a fugitive so geriatric that even the hot-to-trot Grandma Mazur won’t go out with him a third time, keep giving her the slip? How did a woman who died of a heart attack end up in DeChooch’s garden shed with five bullet holes in her chest? Who stole a rump roast from Dougie and Mooner, the two lovable potheads who have decided to be crime fighters in Spandex bodysuits? Can Stephanie’s perfect sister Valerie make it as a lesbian single mother without driving her family crazy? And–oh yeah–what should Stephanie do about that damn wedding dress on hold at Tina’s Bridal Shoppe, waiting for her to decide whether vice cop Joe Morelli’s really the one for her?
I did look good in the gown. I looked like Scarlett O’ Hara getting ready for a big wedding at Tara. I moved around a little to simulate dancing.”Jump up and down so we can see how it’ll look when you do the bunny hop,” Grandma said.
“It’s pretty but I don’t want a gown,” I said.
“I can order one in her size at no obligation,” Tina said.
“No obligation,” Grandma said. “You can’t beat that.”
“As long as there’s no obligation,” my mother said.
I needed chocolate. A lot of chocolate. “Oh gee,” I said, “look at the time. I need to go.”
To complicate matters further, Stephanie’s made a reluctant deal with the devil: if she can’t bring in DeChooch by herself, her sexy but dangerous cohort Ranger is willing to help–for a price that a girl who’s not-exactly-engaged is uncertain whether she should pay. But when Dougie and Mooner disappear, Grandma is kidnapped, and a crazy widow starts taking pot shots, no one who hides her .38 in a cookie jar is going to turn down a little friendly assistance.
In Seven Up, Janet Evanovich serves up her usual bubbly fare: a totaled car, raucous viewings at Stiva’s Funeral Parlor, buffoonish bad guys, and down-and-dirty mud wrestling, all stirred up with some snappy Jersey repartee and a few tart, new twists that will keep her fans impatient. Heaven can’t wait for number eight. –Barrie Trinkle –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Publishers Weekly
It’s always a treat to go out on a case with Stephanie Plum, the sassy, adventurous, but not always successful Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter. In her seventh outing (after 2000’s Hot Six), Stephanie’s employer, her bailbondsman cousin, Vinnie, gives her an easy job: pick up vicious senior citizen Eddie DeChooch, who is constantly sighted racing around Trenton in a borrowed white Cadillac, but whom no one can grab. The usual characters inhabit the novel: Steph’s former high school buddies, the zonked-out Dougie and Mooner; and Evanovich’s best creation, feisty Grandma Mazur. Stephanie’s much-resented sister Valerie returns from California with her two daughters, her “perfect” marriage ended, and moves in with her parents, to their dismay. At times the plot meanders: Stephanie and pal Lula spend too much time running from house to house in the inbred Burg neighborhood, while two semi-retired crooks looking for DeChooch keep breaking into her apartment for little reason. All in all this is another zesty Evanovich read, but one that doesn’t quite hit the high marks of her last two.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Fans of Trenton, NJ, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum will find much to enjoy in this, her seventh outing. As usual, she is on the trail of some weird people who’ve not appeared in court, including a senior citizen involved with contraband cigarettes and a previously meek man who trashes his ex’s wedding in some imaginative ways. Involved in all this is Joe Morelli, Trenton cop and Stephanie’s lover, who’s stressing her out by proposing; her grandmother; Lola, the former hooker who now works with Stephanie; and her sister, who’s flown in from L.A. after her husband leaves her. Evanovich makes all this not only credible but funny and exciting to boot. Narrator Tanya Eby is able to make Stephanie and those who inhabit her world real, vital, quirky, and just as lively as Evanovich writes them. The vocalizations are appropriately urban, and her rendering of Grandma Mazur-catching the wavery quality of some elderly voices-is especially impressive. Recommended.
Melody A. Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, NC
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
Tanya Eby’s performance is effervescent as she plays Stephanie Plum, wise-cracking New Jersey bounty hunter who is back in Evanovich’s seventh whodunit. (This listener was cautioned by aficionados to take in this author’s first six, but that was not really necessary.) Plum, who works for her cousin Vinnie, a bail bondsman, and her cast of characters, who include her hip 83-year-old grandmother, vice cop and boyfriend Joe Morelli, and Ranger, a truly magnificent dude, track a missing senior citizen. Eby, as Plum, often sounds like Popeye’s Olive Oyl; she is portrayed as brassy, bold, and sassy and has the New Jersey idiom down almost perfectly. Her SEVEN UP portrayal sparkles and never fizzles out. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
The secret to Stephanie Plum’s success is revealed on the very first page: her childhood desire to be an intergalactic princess, wear sexy footgear, and carry a cool weapon. She’s done it–not the princess part, but she works for her cousin Vinnie as a bail bondswoman, making enough to pay the rent, catch up to the car payments, and afford those sexy shoes and cool guns. The Burg in Trenton, New Jersey, is full of the characters and low-lifes with whom Stephanie grew up (see “Story behind the Story” on the opposite page); this time Stephanie is trying to bring in one of those neighborhood characters, Eddie DeChooch, for his court date. Choochy is old, nearly blind, and close to incontinent, but he manages to evade Stephanie and his various other pursuers until the very end. Subplots abound: Stephanie’s perfect sister, Valerie, comes home with her perfect marriage in tatters; Dougie and Mooner, sweet, befuddled fences, get into horrific trouble; Grandma Mazur discovers the, er . . . good vibrations of a Harley. And our heroine’s erotic tango with hunkbar Morelli is complicated not only by the order of a wedding dress but also by the scary and irresistible Ranger, her mentor in bounty hunting, who makes her a bargain she can’t refuse. Almost every chapter has a laugh-out-loud moment, but Stephanie has some time to think, too: she knows how complicated the feelings are between her and Morelli, and she knows that Ranger is complicated, too. Even Stephanie’s mother gets a real moment. Funny, sexy, scary–how can we wait till next year? GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Booklist
“Almost every chapter has a laugh-out-loud moment….(Seven Up is) funny, sexy, scary–how can we wait till next year?” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“A madcap comic mystery–Jersey-girl style.”–the New York Times
“A clever cast of good-hearted hoods and nutty family members rival The Sopranos.”–People
“If you like your summer reads hot and sassy, try Seven Up.”–Boston Herald
“Evanovich is the crown princess of detective fiction . . . Seven Up is brassy, comical, and light-hearted.”–Bookpage
“[Seven Up] is funny, sexy, and scary.”–Booklist
“Edgy romantic triangle, the loopy family relationships, or the bounty-hunting jobs that skate between absurdity and genuine tension.”–Denver Post
“Expect a laugh per page . . . Bottom line: Plum Pick.”–People
People Magazine
“Expect a laugh per page…a clever cast of good-hearted hoods and nutty family members to rival The Sopranos…Bottomline: Plum Pick.” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
New York Times Book Review
“Janet Evanovich’s madcap comic mystery is pure, classic farce–Jersey Girl style.” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“A madcap comic mystery–Jersey-girl style.”–the New York Times
“A clever cast of good-hearted hoods and nutty family members rival The Sopranos.”–People
“If you like your summer reads hot and sassy, try Seven Up.”–Boston Herald
“Evanovich is the crown princess of detective fiction . . . Seven Up is brassy, comical, and light-hearted.”–Bookpage
“[Seven Up] is funny, sexy, and scary.”–Booklist
“Edgy romantic triangle, the loopy family relationships, or the bounty-hunting jobs that skate between absurdity and genuine tension.”–Denver Post
“Expect a laugh per page . . . Bottom line: Plum Pick.”–People
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BLOWN UP
All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he’s still got a knack for slipping out of sight–and raising hell. How else can Stephanie explain the bullet-riddled corpse in Eddie’s garden? Who else would have a clue as to why two of Stephanie’s friends suddenly vanished? For answers Stephanie has the devil to pay: her mentor, Ranger. The deal? He’ll give Stephanie all the help she needs–if she gives him everything he wants . . .
MESSED UP
As if things weren’t complicated enough, Stephanie’s just discovered her Grandma Mazur’s own unmentionable alliance with Eddie. Add a series of unnerving break-ins, not to mention the bombshell revelation leveled by Stephanie’s estranged sister, and Stephanie’s ready for some good news. Unfortunately, a marriage proposal from Joe Morelli, the love of her life, isn’t quite cutting it. And now–murder, a randy paramour, a wily mobster, death threats, extortion, and a triplie kidnapping aside–Stephanie’s really got the urge to run for her life . . .
SEVEN UP
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The smash-hit #1 bestselling author takes you on the ride of your life in the 7th Stephanie Plum adventure.
Stephanie Plum has problems. Grandma Mazur’s gambling partner, Eddie Dachooch, was found toes-up on his kitchen floor, dead from a shotgun blast. But when Grandma goes to the viewing, shoe doesn’t recognize the man in the casket. She drags Stephanie along to find the missing dead body. But Stephanie’s mind is on other matters because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing a single perfect night…The seventh Stephanie Plum novel drops Stephanie into a smorgasbord of murder, kidnapping, and extortion as well as a sensuouse buffet of fast cars, fast men, and fast food. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Bestselling author Janet Evanovich is the recipient of the Crime Writers Association’s John Creasey Memorial, Last Laugh, and Silver Dagger awards, as well as the Left Coast Crime’s Lefty award, and is the two-time recipient of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association’s Dilys award. She lives in New Hampshire, where she is at work on her next Stephanie Plum adventure.
