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Tricky Twenty-Two (Stephanie Plum Series #22)
337 pages
A chaotic, laugh-out-loud romp through Jersey filled with exploding cars, romantic triangles, and delightfully incompetent bounty hunting.
What it feels like
Reading this is like catching up with your favorite, most chaotic friends over a greasy pork roll sandwich in Trenton. The pace is brisk and bouncy, propelled by snappy dialogue, slapstick action, and the comforting familiarity of a long-running romantic triangle. It does not ask you to solve a gritty puzzle; instead, it invites you to sit back and enjoy the sheer absurdity of exploding cars, eccentric sidekicks, and a protagonist who bumbles her way toward justice with more luck than skill. The prose is unpretentious and punchy, perfectly tuned for delivering punchlines and running gags. It is the ultimate comfort read for anyone who loves their mysteries served with a heavy dose of irreverent humor and zany, low-stakes mayhem.
- Mood
- lighthearted
- chaotic
- zany
- cozy-but-messy
- Tone
- wry
- breezy
- irreverent
- slapstick
- sassy
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- romantic tension · found family · bumbling through life · absurd situations · blue-collar resilience
- The writing
- Snappy, dialogue-heavy, and unpretentious, relying heavily on comedic timing and beloved running gags.
- The arc
- Moves from chaotic financial desperation through a series of hilarious mishaps to a messy but satisfyingly familiar resolution.
- Who it's for
- Readers craving a reliable, laugh-out-loud comfort read filled with eccentric characters and low-stakes mystery.
Content notes
- mild violence
- comedic peril
- sexual innuendo
About the book
Stephanie Plum might not be the world’s greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she’s being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college—and it’s not just Zeta fraternity pranks.
As much as people love Gobbles, they hate Doug Linken. When Linken is gunned down in his backyard it’s good riddance, and the list of possible murder suspects is long. The only people who care about finding Linken’s killer are Trenton cop Joe Morelli, who has been assigned the case, security expert Ranger, who was hired to protect Linken, and Stephanie, who has her eye on a cash prize and hopefully has some tricks up her sleeve.
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