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| Release Date | 2009-06-23 |
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Stephanie’s working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for safety expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Can she hunt down two killers, a traitor, and five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, and solve Ranger’s problems and not jump his bones? |
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SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 EVENT: The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten. WHERE: Wherever books are sold across America WHAT TO Get: Sunglasses, insect repellant, a flotation device, suntan lotion, cheez-doodles, more-large towel, fire extinguisher, baseball bat, lip balm, monkey leash, sixty three pieces of chewing gum, and one canister of oxygen (don’t ask). Hey, it’s a Stephanie Plum novel!
Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly: Author One-to-One
In this Amazon special, we delivered mutually blockbuster authors Janet Evanovich and Michael Connelly and asked them to interview every other. Locate out what two of the top authors of their genres have to say concerning their characters, writing process, and extra. Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. Read on to see Michael Connelly's questions for Janet Evanovich, or turn the tables to see what Evanovich asked Connelly.  Connelly: Let's get the business out of the way. What's Finger Lickin' Fifteen, the new Stephanie Plum novel, all concerning and what delivered you to the story?
Evanovich: I wanted to do a book this featured Stephanie's wheelman, Lula. Lula is one of my favorite characters for the reason that she's pulled herself up from hard times and now is just extra of everything. Fifteen opens together with Lula witnessing a crime, and it all gets complicated afterwards this. We're talking concerning barbecue gone bad, cross-dressing firemen, dancing hot dogs, etc. Connelly: You strike me as an author who is involved in each aspect of the publishing of her work. But the output--at least two solid novels a year--suggests otherwise, this you delegate all over the situate so this you can focus on writing high-excellence stuff. So which is it? (And if your answer is this you do indeed delegate, how the heck do you study to do this?) Evanovich: You reach a point in your career where the business side threatens to eclipse writing time and you either delegate or power back. I delegate everything but the writing. My daughter and her staff manage the website, the fan mail, the book tour, the author publicity and marketing. My son is my agent and finance officer and chief problem solver. When no one else can solve the problem it gets dumped on my son's desk! I oversee all aspects, but I've had to study not to micro-manage. Connelly: We have an author friend in common-- Robert Crais--who has steadfastly refused to sell or option his series character Elvis Cole to Hollywood. On the other hand, I've flogged Harry Bosch up and down the studio strip. (Interestingly enough, to the same result--no movies made!) Where do you stand together with Stephanie and will we ever see her on the big or small screen? Evanovich: Jeez Louise, I wish I knew the answer to this one. TriStar owns the Plum franchise together with Wendy Finerman attached as producer, and Wendy has been trying to get this sucker off the ground for fifteen years. Probably somewhere in the vicinity of three million people read every of my Plum books, but for whatever reason, TriStar has yet to greenlight the project. Connelly: Speaking of this L.A. business, do you remember when we first met? Since you conveniently put numbers in your titles, it is simple for me to remember this it was fourteen years ago in L.A. I bet you don't remember the name of the restaurant, which sadly is no longer there. But, luckily, we're still here and my memory of this lunch is important to me for the reason that at the time we had probably sold a hundred books between us (not counting romance novels). Evanovich: What I remember is this what I consider to be my graduating class (you, Crais, and Jan Burke) would get mutually at all the mystery conferences, and you would be our fearless leader! Connelly: Did you recognize this in my much recent novel a very bad man plans to use a Janet Evanovich novel to get shut to an unsuspecting, potential victim? It's scary stuff--the plan, not the Evanovich novel. Have you reached a stage where your work is part of the terrain and gets these sorts of little nods here and there? Evanovich: Each now and then my name or one of my character names pops up and it's usually in the work of a friend. I believe it's fun and I always reciprocate...so exist in fear.
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Customer Reviews |
| Review of "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" 2010-09-01 |
| By female-sleuths.blogspot.com (Wisconsin, USA) |
I thought this book was quite interesting for the first half. But the second half was a let down for me. There were a lot of good ideas that didn't really go anywhere and I found that to be a disappointment.
Here we see Stephanie helping her bounty hunter mentor Ranger with his security business which is located in Trenton New Jersey. Several of his client's homes and businesses have been broken into and that's not good for business - or for Ranger's reputation. So he asks Stephanie to help him figure out who is stealing the secret pass codes. She does.
Stephanie and Ranger are also wildly attracted to each other. Does she give into temptation? I'm not telling!
In another side-plot Lula, Stephanie's sidekick, is the sole witness to a murder and we see her getting chased by the bad guys. The man that was killed was a TV chef who was going to sponsor a local barbecue cook-off contest. Lula is convinced the killers will show up for the contest so she decides to enter it. This leads to a lot of jokes about getting gas from eating lots of meat with barbecue sauce on it.
So we get more of the same old romantic complications and comic messes wound up in a slightly different plot. Maybe it's time for a change. |
 LOL FUNNY! 2010-08-23 |
| By 1 for the money (Detroit, MI) |
| After reading most of the posts that were posted, I have to disagree with you. I thought this was one of the most funniest books out of the whole series! They made this book mostly about Lula,the plot of the story which started at the very beginning was a little unbelieveable, by Janet E. took it and made a very funny story out of it. I truly enjoyed it but it wouldn't hurt to start a new series-it would be tough though since the Stephanie Plum series is so great!! Once again, it was laugh-out-loud funny! |
 Put a Fork in me 2010-08-23 |
| I'm done. The last three books have been tedious. I stuck with them because the first ones were good. But now I'm just sorry I didn't end the relationship sooner. The Morelli v Ranger conflict was set up well. I used to genuinely switch allegiances. Now I don't care and I can't imagine why they would either. |
| Read, Enjoy, Laugh out loud 2010-08-20 |
| By J. Hastings |
| I never get tired of the Stephanie Plum series. I can hardly wait until the next one comes out. I like this series because it is an easy read. The book/series always comes up with weird situations but relatable. I've never really read a book that makes me laugh before I started reading this series. I've chuckled before, but really laugh now!!!! I do not know which character I like the best. Each character has their own uniquness. Who wouldn't love a grandma like that? I definately recommend starting from book 1 and reading all of them. It has a plot, a bit of mystery, laughs and interesting people. It keeps your interest and not too big of a book so you can read it. It's one of those books that even if you do not have time to read, you make time to read. |
| An entertaining disappointment 2010-08-16 |
| By Wingnut NYC (New York City) |
I really want to like this latest Stephanie Plum installment more than I do, and gave it three stars for being entertaining mental bubble gum. It's a fun and undemanding read, but don't expect any character development and don't look for much sense.
On the good side, the usual quirky characters and wacky adventures are firmly in place, along with Evanovitch's irreverent humor. There are some very funny moments involving cooking mishaps, cross-dressing, and a couple of lunatic killers. Ranger is back and as hot and inscrutable as ever. We don't see a whole lot of Morelli but he's his usual appealing self. The plot is lightweight, which should be no surprise to readers of this series, but fast-paced with no dull spots.
On the bad side - a lot of the quirkiness and wackiness has started to feel recycled from earlier installments. There's really nothing new in Stephanie's life: she still can't commit to Morelli or take the plunge with Ranger. Ranger's tolerance of the destruction of every car he gives her and her frequent need to be bailed out of trouble, not to mention her habit of sleeping in his bed and refusing sex, plus Morelli's tolerance of her relationship with Ranger, passed the point of unbelievable quite some time ago. Lula has gotten so exaggerated that she seems more like a cartoon than a person, and the repeated incidents of her farting are starting to look a little cruel.
Stephanie in general has always had Mary Sue tendencies - by which I mean she distorts reality and the other characters around herself. Two fantastic men (three if you count Diesel) are crazy enough about her to put up with her attitude and her blunders and find them cute, crazed sadistic killers are obsessed with her, she eats like a pig and doesn't get fat, and somehow she always ends up solving the case despite an almost total lack of skills. I find myself longing for Morelli to dump her and find someone else, for Ranger to tell her she's on her own after another car gets blown up, and for her to wake up the next morning and be unable to fit in any of her clothes.
Despite all this, I find the heroine oddly endearing and these novels oddly addictive. I'm not sure it's a particularly good habit - kind of like Stephanie's addiction to doughnuts, maybe - but it's hard to stop and despite the series' shortcomings I'll probably keep reading as long as they keep coming out. |
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