Four to Score

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Last update: 03-06-2025


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AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING!

From Janet Evanovich, the “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), comes the fourth novel in the entertaining and enthralling Stephanie Plum series.

Working for her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie, Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki, whose crimes include bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Someone is terrifying Maxine’s friends, and those who have seen her are turning up dead. Also on the hunt for Maxine is Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie’s archenemy and rival bounty hunter.

Stephanie’s attitude never wavers—even when aided by crazy Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet—and even when Stephanie makes an enemy whose deadly tactics escalate from threatening messages to firebombs. All of this pales in comparison, though, with an even greater danger Stephanie faces, when, homeless and broke, she and her hamster Rex move in with a vice cop Joe Morelli.


Top reviews from the United States

  • LCS13
    5.0 out of 5 stars great!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
    Love these books! So funny. Lula and grandma are hilarious. And Sally was a great addition. Great series. Funny and intense.
  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
    Janet Evanovich is a good writer and I really enjoy reading this series. Stephanie Plum series is funny and a great read except for the foul language.
  • Kasia S.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A scream, in a good way :)
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2012
    The fourth Stephanie Plum entry was one of the funniest stories that I have read in a very long time, I pretty much spend most of my Saturday reading this one only to burst out laughing every few minutes like a maniac which scared the krap out of my cats who like to hang out with me when I read, I know, how lucky of me right? :P Stephanie, Joe Morelli, Lula, Ranger, Sally, Grandma Mazur and Maxine made this an amazing read, this is part mystery and part thriller and about ninety parts wise cracking wit which will make anyone with functional eye balls holler. I loved it so much that I had to start the fifth book right away; I simply missed the characters and the atmosphere way too much to let it go.

    I adored how Stephanie could be hiding behind a car doing surveillance when her mother would call inviting her for a nice roast with mashed potatoes, peas and gravy, her friends of course invited and her current squeeze also forcefully invited mainly due of the pregnancy and dating rumors. The girl's apartment gets licked by a Molotov cocktail and suddenly people think she's shacking up with her new roommate, the nerve, never mind that they aren't technically wrong.... I loved the progression between Joe and Steph, it reminded me of some stuff that was started in the first book and now it adds a fun touch as the series continues. Stephanie Plum is a calamity, she is sweet and funny and dangers to people who skip their court dates, how she manages to get these criminals is one of the best parts, it's really hard to describe the beauty of this series and one simply has to read it to find out what all the fuss is about. In a nutshell each story revolves around a new case, throw in some family drama, some dating disasters and voila, a hit!

    - Kasia S.
  • Elizabeth du Fresne
    5.0 out of 5 stars You Can Count on Evanovich
    Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023
    Stephanie Plum is one of the genre's fun creations. And that combination of humor and action is Evanovich's trademark. If I'm in a reading slump or I've read a disappointing book or two, I can be sure I'll feel better after spending a night with Stephanie, her bounty hunting circle (Connie,Vince, Lula and Ranger), her family (her Hungarian grandma Laser and mother, her retired father who moonlights driving cabs just to avoid her mother and grandmother, her perfect, normal sister Vanessa), the hot Italian cop Joe Morelli, and whatever bail jumpers and characters the Burg produces to fill in the latest.caper. Whether
    Stephanie stays in Trenton or goes to the Jersey shore, you know she's going to make you laugh and nail the bail skip! And that you can be thoroughly entertained while zooming through the latest tale. Tharbconsistency
  • Joyce Metzger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014
    Stephanie Plum is leaning, and learning, from her close connection to Grandma Mazur, and Joe Morelli is doing a bit more than pressure these days. He's a Trenton PD vice cop, a hard lean Italian muscle. He wants Stephanie to quit the bounty hunting, and marry him. He feels the torrid heat. They can't stay away from one another, but Stephanie can't see marriage in the cards. She's not playing that piccolo yet. She's not as Pickwickian as many believe.

    Stephanie has been sent out by her cousin-boss, Vinnie, as a bond-skipper retriever to locate, and bring back, Maxine Nowicki, free on a stolen automobile charge,now, a bond skipper. Maxine's boyfriend offers money if Stephanie can retrieve valuable love letters. Unpleasantness is difficult to deal with. Sometimes, procrastination works, and the thorn-in-the-side goes away. But, sometimes, it doesn't.

    Joyce Bernhardt returns, revived, and ready to prickle Stephanie again. She is a rival bounty hunter and an arch-enemy. Grandma Mazar doesn't mince words when she asks Sally Sweet, the code-breaking drag queen, some very personal questions about his anatomy. He stands seven feet tall in high heels, and he refuses to shave his arms, legs, arm pits, or chest hairs. So much for luscious.

    This book is a real page flipper. The characters are quick on the uptake, insightfully astute, and they have instinctive self-preservation acuity. Stephanie could be the girl next door, if that girl is street smart, has a licentious oriented Grandma, and is tenacious as a bulldog in a thunderstorm. Lulu's physical magnitude hasn't diminished, her proportions stretch seam strength, but, she is funny and loyal. The Robin Goodfellow michievousness is refreshing. Keep these alive and well. Humour is infectious. We need more super-heroes with feet firmly planted on terra-firma. Excellent.

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