High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5) in Settings

Feb 15, 2010 Jackie Lane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter, is back.

Her Uncle Fred is missing and she is asked by her family to help locate him. Apparently he went out to Grand Union and the dry cleaners and was going to stop at the garbage company with a cancelled check because there was a mix up and he never came home.

Stephanie's latest FTA is Randy Briggs, a “little person”. While Stephanie was attempting to apprehend Briggs, she destroyed his door, his apartment got ransacked and Briggs tumbled down the stairs. Briggs s Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter, is back.

Her Uncle Fred is missing and she is asked by her family to help locate him. Apparently he went out to Grand Union and the dry cleaners and was going to stop at the garbage company with a cancelled check because there was a mix up and he never came home.

Stephanie's latest FTA is Randy Briggs, a “little person”. While Stephanie was attempting to apprehend Briggs, she destroyed his door, his apartment got ransacked and Briggs tumbled down the stairs. Briggs started making threats of a lawsuit and now Briggs has set up shop in Stephanie’s living room until his apartment is fixed up.

As Stephanie attempts to locate her Uncle Fred, she locates his station wagon parked at the Grand Union with his laundry neatly laid out in the back seat and the car is locked. Stephanie speaks to Uncle Fred’s wife who knows nothing other than Fred when out for groceries and to run errands. Stephanie realizes that Fred was onto something when she finds pictures in Fred’s desk of a dead, cut up female in a garbage bag. To make matters worse, a “bookie” by the name of Bunchy is following Stephanie around in the hopes that she will lead him to Fred.

Stephanie, low on cash as usual, signs on with Ranger to do some jobs for him for extra money. They include driving a Sheik to and from the airport. Watching a building to make sure the previous occupant doesn’t return and helping Ranger to various other little jobs.

Stephanie is busy blowing up and destroying cars as usual.

Stephanie is also being harassed by Benito Ramirez, recently released from prison, who wants to make Stephanie pay for putting him there and says he will show her what a real man is and he wants her to meet God.

Things get spicy with Morelli and Stephanie goes to his cousin’s wedding as his date. The Ranger/Stephanie temperature is rising as well and there is more playful flirting between them.

As always, I laughed my way through this book. I would definitely give it 5 stars (her wit and sarcasm alone warrant it).
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Jan 22, 2011 SandyC rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-crime-suspense, 2011-read

Another fun installment in the adventures of Stephanie Plum!
The ending? Ranger or Morelli? Of course I have to keep reading to find out!

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Oct 08, 2007 Stephanie Tuell rated it liked it

while this books was still good, it wasn't as good as the ones before it. for some reason, it seemed to lack the usual humor. stephanie still has a way to get you to at least smile though. ...more

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