Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

"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." -Goodreads.com

My Review:

     This was an interesting book of which is my first from Janet Evanovich. It kept my attention the entire book. I liked the way the story was told; injecting humor in a book filled with damsel in distress and vigilante situations. Lulu and Stephanie Plum were described in great detail so it was easy to fall in love with them and their quirks. Considering this is number eighteen in a series, I thought I'd be a little lost with the book's development, but the author did a great job on filling in the history of the characters and how it led to their current situation. On the whole, the main mystery wasn't completely complex and turned out to be a bit of a disappointment in the end but I would absolutely consider reading other books by Janet Evanovich, especially her Stephanie Plum series.

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