Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January.

She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.

And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking like glue. Lula's big and blonde and black and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car.

Morelli, the New Jersey vice cop with the slow-burning smile that undermines a girl's strongest resolve is being polite. So what does this mean? Has he found a new love? Or is he manipulating Steph, using her in his police investigation, counting on her unmanageable curiosity and competitive Jersey attitude?

Once again, the entire One for the Money crew is in action, including Ranger and Grandma Mazur, searching for Mo, tripping down a trail littered with dead drug dealers, leading Stephanie to suspect Mo has traded his ice-cream scoop for a vigilante gun.

Cursed with a disastrous new hair color and an increasing sense that it's really time to get a new job, Stephanie spirals and tumbles through Three to Get Deadly with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.

Sent yesterday to Megi53 as a thank you for the RABCKs she sent to me!

This came today, and it looks incredibly cool! The Penguin covers are a lot snazzier than the Pocket Books.

I can hardly wait to finish Two For the Dough so I can read this one! Thank you, thank you!

Now I finally understand what the Stephanie Plum fuss is about. This book is delightful!

Maybe I liked it better than the first two in the series because it didn't have much of Grandma Mazur in it. She is so irritating! Lula is a pill, too -- crashing Stephanie's new truck!

Ah, but that Morelli! He and Stephanie make (as other reviewers have said on the BC forums) such a HOT pair.

The vigilante subplot was nail-bitingly exciting, and I laughed out loud when Stephanie's hair color stayed on too long.

Thanks for a wonderful reading experience, CandyDarling. Now this is going to an Australian bookcrosser who had it on her wish list.

Thank you so much - it was so sweet of you to send this RABCK to me!

I am really enjoying this series! Lulu is a crackup as a standover merchant who has the hots for Ranger - can't say I blame her!

My hubby enjoyed this book too :)

RELEASE NOTES:

Its a surprise - ssshhhhhhhh

Thanks for the surprise RABCK!! Now I can take myself off the international bookring I was on for this book. Looking forward to reading this when I've read the first two - they are near the top of my TBR list.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing at meetup.