Plum Spooky

Normally I'm not a big fan of Janet Evanovich's between the numbers Stephanie Plum books (and lately not such a big fan of the numbers one, either. I think Eleven was the last one I really liked, but I digress), but this one was fairly decent. For starters, it was longer than most of the other ones and while Joe and Ranger weren't major players, they did show up more than they usually do. Diesel also didn't seem as supernaturally weird as he usually is, so that was a refreshing change of pace. Stephanie is stuck babysitting a monkey named Carl who likes to play handheld video games while she and Diesel are chasing down his cousin, Wulf, who happens to be in cahoots with one of Steph's FTAs. They are planning on taking over the world by controlling the weather or some such nonsense, who even knows? I just read them to laugh over Steph's predicaments, including squirrels taking over her Jeep, transporting stolen rockets in Uncle Sandor's Buick, and getting in several food fights with an FTA. Not one of the best, but not too bad, either.