Stephanie Plum celebrates Valentine’s Day…with Diesel and the Unmentionables!

Our bumbling and brave bounty hunter teams up with the oddly talented shadow agent to track down her skip, the “relationship expert” Annie Hart. Diesel helps her on one condition: she leads him to the kooky Bernie, a creep with a talent for causing unexplained rashes. They have to stop him from getting some form of revenge, and what it means is that Steph has to step in for Annie and solve a bunch of matchmaker issues.

Right there, that’s funny and cute: Steph playing Cupid! She’s out of her league yet again, and you know something’s gonna go awry…and it does. Maybe not in the slapstick way to which I’ve been accustomed, but there’s plenty of silliness here. Like always, she makes it work through her friends, determination, and pure luck.



The side characters here were more believable and fun than the last “Between the Numbers” novella (Visions of Sugar Plums). I liked the Valentine’s Day gimmick, and the stories of the people Steph tries to match were gratifying. I’m starting to enjoy the fantasy, even the sci-fi, among the characters Diesel’s chasing: I’m leaning into the idea of all their weird powers, and I couldn’t help but smile. All the primaries are there, and they do their things: Grandma gets into a mess, Lula throws around her…uh…personality, and Steph’s mom crosses herself. I liked Diesel a bit more in this one, too.

And Lorelei King does it again. All those voices, all those accents! She’s Steph to the core, and no one does it better.

Always a pleasure to visit my best literary friend in her hometown of Trenton. Just one more to go before I finish the Stephanie Plum canon!

I absolutely adore these books. They're fast paced, with interesting plot lines, and are hilarious. Add that with a spunky female lead who blackmails her cousin Vinny into giving her a job as a bounty hunter and the super sexy badass Ranger, also a bounty hunter (who I will always prefer over Morelli) how could you say no?

He's back! Diesel makes a return visit to the world of Stephanie Plum. It's funny that whenever Diesel shows up Ranger and Joe are no where to be found. Anyway, Diesel is on the trail of an unmentionable who is out of control and giving everyone who ticks him off hives. He needs Stephanie's help to draw him out so Diesel can deal with him. Steph has a skip, Annie Hart (a relationship expert and also an unmentionable). Diesel knows where she is and wants to work a deal with Steph. She works Annie's "cases" and helps Diesel find his guy and if Steph finds Annie, Diesel will find his guy too, maybe.

I forgot the mob enforcer and the fake wedding that turns into a real wedding, well, some things you just have to read for yourself.

Funny, Emotional, Fun & Fast Read!!! Loved It!!!