Why we’re excited
Someone is leaving Stephanie Plum frightening parcels and notes, and whoever it is has no place on her long list of known enemies. While she tries to identify the stalker, she also has a skip to bring in, a man who mugged a pensioner and drove off in a hearse, plus a bodyguard job from Ranger.
This is the thirty-second Plum novel, so the series that began with One for the Money in 1994 is still running on its mix of bounty-hunting chaos and Trenton comedy. Newcomers should start there; regulars will want to see how married life is treating Stephanie.
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What to know about Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo
Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo is Book 32 in the Stephanie Plum series. The series begins with One for the Money. The book just before this one is Now or Never.
There are no reviews of Janet Evanovich’s books on The Bookish Elf yet.
At 320 pages it is about the usual length for a mystery release this month.
From the publisher
Stephanie Plum’s life is never boring, not even for a split second, in the adrenaline-fueled new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.
In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if she makes it to the end of the week.
Over the years, Trenton’s best-known bounty hunter has acquired a long list of enemies. It’s an occupational hazard as a bond enforcement agent. The problem is that she now has a mysterious enemy whose name isn’t on any list. Disturbing packages, threatening notes, and near misses are keeping Stephanie in the dark and her anonymous tormentor, who wants her dead, in the shadows.
Bond jumper Greb Tusi also wouldn’t mind getting rid of Stephanie. He’s wanted for going on a three-hour rampage—one that he swears “wasn’t his fault”—that included mugging an old lady and stealing a hearse.
And if adjusting to being newly married isn’t enough to take a few years off Stephanie’s life, working for her ex-fiancé and mentor, Ranger, might do the trick. Ranger has taken a security job for a powerful political figure, and Stephanie is in charge of babysitting one of the figure’s family members.
The clock is ticking for Stephanie to find bail-jumper Greb Tusi and the invisible stalker who is sending her increasingly menacing messages. If she lets her guard down for even a split second, her time will be up.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
