I'm so disappointed in where the Plum series has gone. I don't think I've ever rated a book one star. Please let this book be the last in the series and PLEASE let it end on a high note! The last five books were all pretty much the same and I'd hate for this to drag out too much longer.ħ/15/13 EDIT: Oooh we have a cover! Interesting. I am unsurprisingly supremely disappointed. This series officially died for me about five books ago. Different murder scenario, different killer, Stephanie somehow saves the day and there is a giraffe and bingo. Basically if you read books 1-19 you know what happens in this book. Grandma doesn't shoot anyone but she is still involved. Lula is still is tight clothes but no strange diets. Stephanie has klutzy moments and bad things happen to her. Stephanie cannot choose between Ranger or Morelli. Giraffes are my favorite animals and therefore a star is earned.

The only reason I gave this book two stars instead of one was because there was a giraffe in it. With bullet holes in her car, henchmen on her tail, and a giraffe named Kevin running wild in the streets of Trenton, Stephanie will have to up her game for the ultimate takedown. Before Stephanie knows it, she’s working side by side with Ranger and Grandma at the senior center, trying to catch a killer on the loose-and the bingo balls are not rolling in their favor. Security specialist Ranger needs her help to solve the bizarre death of a top client’s mother, a woman who happened to play bingo with Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur. It’s not just Uncle Sunny giving Stephanie the run-around. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because-just Stephanie’s luck-the godfather is his actual godfather. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in-not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe.

But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family.

Takedown twenty by janet evanovich