Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich is a Stephanie Plum "Between-the-Numbers" novel and at a mere 166 pages, it can best be described as Plum Lite. Parts of it are rather funny, but there just aren't enough of these moments. Plus as in Plum Lovin', the plot is definitely a stretch.
Grandma Mazur, Trenton bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's grandmom, has gone missing. The last time Plum saw Grandma Mazur, she was toting a bag of cash in Trenton with a midget (little person) trying to get it away from her. It turns out that Grandma stumbled across some stolen dough (from a Trenton mob boss) and she has taken it down to the casinos in Atlantic City. Stephanie and friends (Lula, Connie and Diesel) set off to Atlantic City to find Grandma before she gets in even bigger trouble. The one really decent scene involves Lula acting as the "Queen of Chaos" in the casinos. She creates a diversion by spilling a huge cup of nickels and while trying to chase them down, loses various parts of her anatomy as they fall out of her skintight spandex outfit. Unfortunately, most of the plot was dumb and the part about the horse was definitely over the top.
It seems that Evanovich is just punching out these "Between-the-Numbers" books to fill in the gaps between her longer length number series. As a Plum fan, I'm game for everything Evanovich writes but next time, I just might stick with the numbers. Either that or I'll wait until these smaller novellas come out in paperback.
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Plum Lucky (Stephanie Plum Novels) Books In Print, Audio Books.