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See this item's eligibility during checkout.Travel | Home » » » Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 14) | | | | | | | Description: | | Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet. The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. The Cousin: Joe Morelli Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom’s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family. The Complications: Murder, kidnapping, destruction of personal property, and acid reflux Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He’s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing. The Catastrophe: Moonman Morelli hires Walter “Mooner” Dunphy, stoner and “inventor” turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli can’t afford a lot on a cop’s salary, and Mooner will work for potatoes. The Cupcake: Stephanie Plum Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. She’s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and she’s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. The Crisis: A favor for Ranger Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanie’s evening activities. The Conclusion: Only the fearless should read Fourteen. Thrills, chills, and incontinence may result.
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• ISBN13: 9780312349516
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Janet Evanovich | | Hardcover:
| 320 pages | | Publisher:
| St. Martin's Press | | Publication Date:
| June 17, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0312349513 | | Package Length:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 516 reviews |
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 Where is the REAL Janet?Nov 23, 2009
I have read all the Stephanie Plum books over and over again....from 1-11. They are like old friends.
When 12 came out, I was very disappointed, but thought "oh well, one so-so in a great series is no big deal". 13 really left me disenchanted with the series. I was always one that was at the store on the day the books were to come out to snatch up a copy.
One week ago, I bought the paperback version of the book that came out 16 months previously. After #12 and #13, I lost faith.
And here is #14. One improvement over #13 is at least glaring mistakes aren't present (i.e. Stephanie's mom with a different name, logistics of the houses, etc. I TOLD you I read them over and over).
Let's see what I have learned from Fearless Fourteen:
Joe is now stupid, and Stephanie thinks of all these angles that never occured to Joe, the police detective. However, those deductive skills do not carry over to the bounty hunter job.
Rex basically gets checked for two minutes every three days and is handed "a grape and a piece of cheese". No water. No other food. Any other hamster would be dead, but not Rex the wonder hamster
Ranger is a puppet with Stephanie holding the strings, and his IQ is about the same as a grapefruit. Also, it is stated that Stephanie and Ranger have been intimate at least two or three times. As far as I know, they only "did it" once, in #8.
Apparently, people breaking into your house/digging up your lawn/being dead in your basement really doesn't affect someone's life to any extent. Not sure about any of you, but it would me.
If you have blue skin, and you go to ex-wives and sisters of dead people, they will open up and tell you everything you want to know.
Lula has lost all interest in "popping a cap" and is in a very poorly written side story about forcing a marriage to Tank, who really isn't involved other than maybe a few sentences.
Mom/Dad/Valerie/Albert/the girls/Vinnie/Connie must have all taken a trip to the Bahamas, because they surely have very little time, or none at all in this book.
Someone can run a group home in his own house for misfits and not bat an eye.
We can expect Madonna and Cher to come to our cities and become newscasters. They will have no other commitments other than one concert in our home towns, and then they will have weeks to get involved in a crime in a city away from home.
I will not be reading #15. I am not sure Janet Evanovich is writing these by herself. I would swear #14 was ghost written. I fear JE is now in it only for the money, and has lost any interest in quality writing, or is bored with Stephanie, et. al.
 I cringe for Janet Evanovich. Fearless Fourteen is just that badOct 27, 2009
I've been a huge fan of the Stephanie Plum series and I've read all 15 books in order. The first 4 are absolutely hilarious. While books 5 through 13 aren't quite as funny, they're fun and entertaining nonetheless.
Fearless Fourteen marks the turning point where a once great series goes horribly wrong. Simply put, Fearless Fourteen is flat, boring, and not at all entertaining. Since I liked the first 13 Stephanie Plum books, I initially wrote off the slip with book 14 as an anomaly. But after reading Finger Lickin' Fifteen (which reads like a random compilation of lines and plot devices lifted directly from the earlier books), I'm realizing Fearless Fourteen was not an anomaly and that the series has just gone BAD. I really wish I'd stopped at 13.
I fully realize that Janet Evanovich's books aren't meant to be great literature. In fact, the reason I look forward to reading her books is that she typically does silly and fluffy so incredibly well. But Fearless Fourteen and Finger Lickin' Fifteen are so boring and repetitive, I have to wonder if Janet Evanovich even wrote them herself. Way to ruin a franchise.
 FEARLESS FOURTEENOct 23, 2009
I truly enjoy the numbered series. I'm sorry that I didn't start reading them in numbered order.
Easy reading but certainly keep me waiting for the next chapter.
bwu
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Quick SummarizationOct 20, 2009
Dear Diary, I got up this morning, ate breakfast with Joe, drove around the 'burg. I did this for three or four days in a row. The next day I used my binoculars and solved a crime. The End.
That's it folks, that the whole storyline. That's all there is to this book. Sure do wish I could get $6.99 per pop for writing this intriguing, amusing and adventuress stuff.
 Janet and Stephanie ARE REAL PLUMS.Oct 19, 2009
I agree with the person who said knocking these books are really sorta dumb. I am an older guy that has always enjoyed mysteries and funny books . The Plum series has both and I really have fun reading them. I have now ordered all fifteen books in the series from here and so far I have finished three and each one was fun to read. They are not boring novels that put you to sleep and they are not going to win any pulitizer awards but they are enjoyable. All I can say Janet is KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Dennis B.
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