This installment’s hilarity ranks up there pretty high, rivaling the first. I’m not sure If I should score it an 8.5 or 9! It was so funny… On the other hand, the novels are getting a little more crass. I have to say that Evanovich, despite her crassness, really IS a good writer! She really knows how to paint word pictures that leave you no doubt what’s happening. Consider this description of Lula:

"Lula is a retired hooker who helps clean up the filing and sometimes rides shot-gun for me when I do my fugitive apprehension thing. If people were cars, Lula would be a big, black ’53 Packard with a high-gloss chrome grille, oversized headlights, and a growl like a junkyard dog. Lots of muscle. Never fit in a compact space." (pp. 1-2)

And, I can wholly relate to this: “I hoped he didn’t have a tongue stud. I had to struggle not to make gutteral animal sounds when I talked to people wearing tongue studs.” (p. 30)

Passing this around to family and friends before I release it into the wild.