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Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich book coverPublished 2011
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Explosive Eighteen

by Janet Evanovich · Stephanie Plum, Book 18

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Published Tuesday 22 November 2011Hardcover · Bantam · 305 pages
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What to know about Explosive Eighteen

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich was first published in 2011, and it sits in the Stephanie Plum series.

Explosive Eighteen is Book 18 in the Stephanie Plum series. New readers should begin with Book 1, One for the Money. The book just before this one is Smokin’ Seventeen.

We haven’t reviewed Janet Evanovich before, so this would be our first look at their work.

About the book

From the publisher

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.

 

Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she’s flying back to New Jersey solo, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.

Only one other person has seen the missing photograph—Stephanie Plum. Now she’s the target, and she doesn’t intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise, and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills, she’ll need to watch her back.

Over at the Bail Bonds Agency it’s business as usual—until the bonds bus serving as Vinnie’s temporary HQ goes up in smoke, Stephanie’s wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their “largest” FTA yet, lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanie’s apartment, and everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii?!

 

Morelli, Trenton’s hottest cop, isn’t talking about Hawaii. Ranger, the man of mystery, isn’t talking about Hawaii.  And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is . . . It’s complicated.

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The series in order

Stephanie Plum

This is Book 18 of 36. Every book in the series has its own page.