Turbo Twenty-Three

 Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich   288 pages

This book is part of a series - everyone seems to be writing series these days.   Stephanie Plum is a female bounty hunter with a best friend and side kick who is a retired prostitute named Lula.  Lula is always looking for an angle to make some money and decides to go into reality t.v. with a show titled, "Naked and Afraid," which puts the lead characters naked out in a tough neighborhood to see what all they go through to survive.  While this is going on Stephanie's mentor, Ranger, who also happens to be one of two of Stephanie's love interests brings her in on a murder case. when an upper level employee of an ice cream factory's dead body falls out of a stolen ice cream factory truck covered in chocolate and nuts.   Stephanie goes under cover as a factory employee to try to find the killer.   It is a pretty laugh out loud series of events that take place in the pursuit of the perpetrator.    I liked the characters, especially Lula and Stephanie.    I think this series would be amusing to males and females from middle school on up.   Good series, think I will read more of their adventures.

 - Shirley J.