Summary:
Stephanie has just gotten back from a trip to Hawaii. Most people would be relaxed and content after a trip like that. But Stephanie is stuck in anxiety mode. She won't say what happened, but there's a tan line on her left ring finger, and she's not saying why. What's worse, the man that was sitting next to her on the first leg of her journey home winds up dead in an airport trash can, and she's being stalked by several people out to find what he was carrying back to New Jersey with him, a photo that she happens to have thrown out as soon as she got back home. She doesn't know who the person in the photograph is, and can only describe him as a cross between Tom Cruise and Ashton Kutcher. Lula has gone crazy and fallen for the biggest idiot (who also happens to be an FTA) and expects everyone to be okay with that. Joyce Barnhardt, Steph's nemesis who sometimes plays bounty hunter when she feels like it, has gone on the lamb too, but decides her best course of action would be to crash at Stephanie's place. Because that makes sense. Oh, and Morelli and Ranger are not really happy with her. For similar but opposite reasons. If only she could make up her mind...
Thoughts:
The way Ms. E left Seventeen, I couldn't help myself, and had to continue straight on to Eighteen. It did not disappoint. The tension between Steph and her guys is evident from the word go with this one, and watching her dodge all the questions about what happened in Hawaii is fun. I did feel a little like I was missing something when I first started into this one, and ran to Evanovich's website to see if there was a "Between the Numbers" book I had missed, but unless there's a short story or novella floating around that's unlisted on the site, there isn't anything. The whole story comes out as the book unfolds, but there's a few chapters where you're just as curious and confused as Stephanie's family and friends. It seems as though our girl Steph is starting to think about growing up and picking one man to be with. We'll see...
Also, with finishing this book, I'm one book away from being completely caught up to this series. I'm going to have to find something else to read now! Horrors!
Book 22 of 50
Pages: 352
Genre: Mystery with romantical bits
Grade: A- for the ambiguity at the beginning.
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