Finger Lickin' Fifteen (An Unabridged Production)[Stephanie Plum #15] [Audio CD]

Janet Evanovich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2009

Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head - literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she'll talk to is Trenton cop, Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipotle's sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers. Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah. Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie's Grandma Mazur. Enough said. Bring to a boil: Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, solve Ranger's problems and not jump his bones? Warning: Habanero hot. So good you'll want seconds.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: MacMilan Audio (2009)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002NVN6I2
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (569 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,953,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and graphic novels, Wicked Appetite (the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series,) and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Plum and pals on autopilot; the fun is gone, gone, gone, July 30, 2009

By 

IRG (NYC) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels) (Hardcover)

I'm a big Stephanie Plum fan. But even I was truly bored by this latest book. It's sad when a best-selling author like Evanovich is just phoning it in--I'm at the point of wondering if she has assistants writing these. Formulaic is too kind a word to describe this book, which features the same old, same old and then some.

Yes, we love the characters and laugh at the stuff they get themselves into. But Plum and company are now rendered so one note, and so repetitively so, that the fun is gone, gone, gone.

I read a lot of book series. The best retain their sense of character but evolve. Plum and company are stuck.

Even for summer/quick reading, this is super, super "lite" and not in a good way.

95 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A bad way to end., September 8, 2009

By 

Love TT - See all my reviews

This review is from: Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum) (Kindle Edition)

Normally, I start a review by discussing the author, but Janet Evanovich is such an accomplished writer, I don't think that will be necessary. It is hard to believe that it has been fifteen years since we were first introduced to the sassy bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. A show of hands from those who can remember One for the Money: One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1). Well, Stephanie, has come a long way since she first started chasing Joe Morelli. The last few books in the series, however, had readers convinced it was time to put this series to rest - and I was one of them. But Finger Lickin' Fifteen is, in some ways, a return to form for the best-selling author.

Stephanie Plum has had enough experience by now to be a seasoned vet, but somehow she still manages to stumble along the way - but I guess that is part of her charm. There are two things we can count on about Ms. Plum: She will bumble her way through the book and never commit to a serious relationship - both hold true in her latest adventure. Fifteen Lickin' Fifteen has all the characters that we've come to love and even spends time developing some of their stories. Lula, the clerk with a dubious past, witnesses the brutal murder of television star, Stanley Chipotle. This brings her the unwanted attention of keystone-capered-type-killers that are just as inept at their chosen career as Ms. Plum is at hers. Well, a big reward is offered for the capture of the killers, and Lula, along with Grandma Mazur, enter the cooking contest the TV star was in town to promote in hopes of catching them. Stephanie, meanwhile, is working with her on again, off again lover, Ranger, to solve a series of burglaries that appear to be inside jobs.

Let me end there so I don't spoil it for you, but I will say that I really, really, really, really, wanted to give this book a top score. I love Janet Evanovich, and her Stephanie Plum series, but this fifteenth installment failed on more than a few fronts to fully engross the reader. The Lula story is never fully developed, and while there are hilarities, they are rather shallow and pedantic. The heat begins to rise when Stephanie and Ranger are together, but this too is rather tiresome. Overall, Finger Lickin' Fifteen, has just enough humor and passion and mystery to qualify as a summer breeze. It doesn't achieve what the first six books in the series did, but it is slightly better than the more recent books in the series....I would recommend instead JoAnna Wylde's novel: Price of Freedom --Price of Freedom a much better novel.

75 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Time for this series to end & Janet to create something NEW, July 30, 2009

By 

S. J Taylor (Vista, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels) (Hardcover)

I have been a big fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series from the beginning-heck I have collected an autographed hardback of every book since One for the Money.

The last few books in this series (and the in-between the numbers novelettes)have all been a rehash of the same tired scenarios. Stephanie blowing up cars, Stephanie not able to decide between Ranger or Morelli, Stephanie not able to catch her bond skips, Stephanie ending up drenched in some sort of goo, and unfortunately, Stephanie as an uninteresting mess than never seems to wise-up. Finger Lickin' Fifteen needed to be The Fifteen Finale. Janet, it is time to move on to a better developed, more intelligient character series. I cannot continue to be frustrated at the lack of Stephanie's progression. What was initially a funny, well-written series has declined into the same old book but just with a different cover. Janet please write one more Plum book where Stephanie actually matures and moves on with her life and end the series on a high note.