Finger Lickin' Fifteen

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head—literally.

Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she'll talk to is Trenton cop, Joe Morelli.

Pump up the heat: Chipotle's sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers.

Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah.

Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie's Grandma Mazur. Enough said.

Bring to a boil: Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, solve Ranger's problems and not jump his bones?

Warning: Janet Evanovich's Finger Lickin' Fifteen is habanero hot. So good you'll want seconds.

©2009 Evanovich, Inc. (P)2009 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“Lorelei King delivers this light fiction with gusto, missing none of the humor, whether broad or subtle...King's comic timing suits the story as does the laugh that's almost audible in her performance. Who else could make us giggle at a headless body in a morgue?” —AudioFile

“Veteran Evanovich narrator Lorelei King seems perfectly at home when in command of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum...Plum's larger than life office assistant Lula lands in the center of the drama, and King delivers a deliciously over the top performance of her antics.” —Publishers Weekly

“Lorelei King's narration and portrayals of the bounty jumpers are as spicy as ever!” —Chapel Hill Herald

New to Evanovich & Stephanie Plum

This was my introduction to Janet Evanovich and Stephanie Plum. The story was light and fun, the mystery was...not so mysterious. This is not Sherlock Holmes. Luls was a great comedy relief, Ranger and Morelli were totally fixated on sex all the time. Every other thing they said had to do with jumping into bed with Stephanie. Is that how Evanovich sees men? I'm sure if those guys were really as hard-up as they sounded, they would be getting it somewhere else instead of waiting on Stephanie Plum to give them some.

I laughed at parts, rolled my eyes at other parts, and i'm interested in going back to experience earlier novels in the series. As I have not read any of the other books, I can't compare this to what went before, but as a stand-alone read, it was fun. The narrator had a good range of voices that helped bring the characters to life for me.

Finger Lickin' Good

As always, Stephanie Plum gets herself in a few sticky situations and keeps me laughing along with the mystery she solves.

Awesome!!!

Of course I have loved all of the books however this one really made me laugh. I like how it wasnt just Steph always getting into trouble but her friends also, A very enjoyable book. Thanks Ms.Evanovich

Janet Evanovich is great!

loved the book, I wish there were men narrating Joe and Ranger it just loses the relationship she has built between those 3 characters

Lame and Boring

I so enjoy the humor in this series, so it pains me to say that Evanovich probably should've ended it at the tenth book. The only reason I can give this 3 stars is because of the beloved characters who still bring chuckles. I also enjoy the narration of Lorelei King with the exception of the screechy "old lady" voice she uses for Grandma Mazur. (Anyone with parents or grandparents in their 70's knows they don't sound like shrill old people at that age.) Evanovich seems to have run out of storylines and is repeating the same old lines in every book since Ten Big Ones. I realize these are not meant to be great mystery novels, but they've gotten to the point that the entire book is Stephanie's endless whining for help from Ranger or Joe, her inability to choose between the two men, and her constant disasters. None of it is believable. No woman who has been married and had a career as a buyer should be so completely incapable of doing anything for herself. No self-respecting man would put up with her constant flirting with Ranger in the way Joe does. Nobody running a security firm as Ranger does would possibly ask such an inept bounty hunter to "help him" with his problem as Ranger does in this book. This particular book is a vast waste of time unless you enjoy listening to fart jokes and think it's cool that Stephanie gets to spend all her time sleeping in Ranger's bed while stringing Joe along just in case she might want him. Hours of that with no point to the storyline that only gets wrapped up in the final 15 minutes of the book. Perhaps this is a series that was better appreciated before audio books became so popular. Maybe reading just one per year wasn't so annoying. After listening to fifteen of them in a row I just can't do it anymore.

And on we go...

Another book read and the next one ready to go so off to the next adventure...book Sixteen.

FUNNY!!!

This is one of my favorite books in the series. It is so funny that I laugh all the way through! Of course it’s due to the fantastic narrator: Lorelei King! I liked it so much that I listen to it every year.😀 I just about forget about it over the year, then I start all over! I’ve listened to it about 3-4 times & it never gets old.

Love the book

The narrator did a pretty good job. I especially loved her Lula voice, but not so much the Ranger voice.

Excellent!

This book was very entertaining! The characters are colorful and keep the book interesting. Excellent!

Another great Stephanie Plum installment

If you are going to listen to this as your first Stephanie Plum book, I do NOT recommend it -- the series makes a lot more sense and is a lot more enjoyable if you read/listen to them in order as they refer to past adventures and rely on the reader already having a background knowledge of the relationships and characters. That being said, this was another great one -- though I love all of them, so I can't say I liked this one more than I did others (I actually don't count it among my favorites). BUT, all of the Plum stories are amusing and entertaining, and that's exactly why her readers keep coming back for more!