How many ways do you get to blow up a car? Heh, heh. Actually, in this book – for a change – only one (but a house blows up, if that helps?). So do not feel ripped off, dear reader, Evanovich has delivered oodles of fabbo funnies as per usual. Such as Lula in a skin-tight wedding dress (yikes!) and Stephanie turning blue (an excellent running gag, especially when Joe suggests she looks like a Smurf and he gets turned on looking at her). Bob the dog eats underwear and there’s some deadly potato guns. That sort of thing. The plot (if you can call it that) involves a missing bank heist of nine million dollars, probable location: somewhere in Joe Morelli’s house. Or garden. Garage. Cellar. Out of the woodwork all these loonies appear and start digging. There’s a few dead people as well, discovered by – who else – Stephanie Plum herself. Unfortunately the villain is holding Loretta, a distant cousin of Joe’s, hostage, until the money appears. Again the usual: the money or her life. Actually, her hand. The villain threatens to cut off her hand, yucko. So everyone wants to find the money, and Joe, Stephanie and Loretta’s rather fun teenager Zook, want to find Loretta. So the hunt begins. J Fans of Mooner from previous books will be thrilled to discover he’s back and he’s groovin’, baby. As in: ‘Dude,’ Mooner said. ‘Awesome. Ratings fabuloso.’ Your happy bliss-out fun read for the month!