‘Seven Up’ by Janet Evanovich

Published by Headline,
4 June 2001.
ISBN: 978-0-74726956-4 (HB)

Our intrepid bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum returns again in this the seventh book in the series. When Eddie DeChooch fails to attend his court appearance, Stephanie is assigned to find him. He’s a semi-retired mob guy, but Eddie has learned a few tricks over the years and proves difficult to catch. He also has a penchant for using his gun, as Stephanie discovers when she finds the body of Loretta Ricci in Eddie’s shed.

We meet again Grandma Mazur, Lulu, Vinnie and all the wonderful cast of characters we have grown to know and love in the earlier books and are additionally introduced to two of Stephanie’s former high school classmates, Walter ‘MoonMan’ Dunphy, and Dougie ’The Dealer’ Kruper, who have inadvertently become involved with Eddie DeChooch. Then Dougie disappears. Regularly turning up at Stephanie’s flat are Benny and Ziggy, friends of DeChooch, who keep offering help, but seems only to hinder. When MoonMan also disappears, Stephanie goes into high search mode.

Stephanie’s love life continues to be complicated with the gorgeous Morelli on the one side and the unfathomable Ranger on the other. On the home front; perfect sister Valerie has decided to move back to Trenton, bringing her two children of one of whom thinks she is a horse. Makes for even more fun at the Plum meal times.

Another fantastic adventure in the series.  A must for all Evanovich fans.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes

Janet Evanovich grew up in New Jersey, but now lives in Hampshire. She is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels including Turbo Twenty-Three and Tricky Twenty-Two; the Knight and Moon novels including Curious Minds, co-written with Phoef Sutton; five novels in the Fox & O'Hare series - The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam and The Pursuit - co-written with Lee Goldberg; the Lizzy and Diesel novels including most recently Wicked Charms, co-written with Phoef Sutton; twelve romance novels; the Alexandra Barnaby novels; the Troublemaker graphic novels; and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author. She has won several major crime fiction awards including the CWA John Creasey Award, Dilys Award and Silver Dagger.