Explosive Eighteen

 Shirley J.    Adult Fiction      Lady Bounty Hunters, Love Potions

Explosive  Eighteen by Janet Evanovich   305 pages

Trouble in paradise.   That great vacation/manhunt Stephanie had planned goes awry.   Then her seat mate on the plane disappears and misses the plan on its L.A. stopover back to Trenton, New Jersey.   Once she is back home and tight lipped about her dream vacation gone sour she finds an envelope in her bag with some guy's photo inside.   Nobody she knows, must have gotten in there during the baggage claim somehow.   No name, no address to return it so she tosses it out in the trash at her parents' house.   Now, everybody and their brother are knocking on her door and stalking her to get the photo but she doesn't have it.   The F.B.I. and also fake F.B.I. agents are looking for it and on her trail.   There is a mysterious hair dresser and a crazed Russian killer looking after it and just goes to show you can't have your cake and eat it too.   What has Stephanie gotten herself into now?   And why is there a tan line on her ring finger?  Lula accidentally swallows a love potion and falls head over heals for a big oaf they are trying to bring in who is an F.T.A.  Yikes!  An explosive end - you can count on it.   I would recommend this one to mature gradeschoolers on up but I also recommend begiing with book 1 and following the series because the references will make so much more sense.   Another Stephanie Plum winner!