Tricky Twenty-Two

Any of you who are Janet Evanovich fans will recognize the title as the latest in her "Stephanie Plum" series, featuring a not terribly competent bond enforcement agent who tracks down clients who have skipped on their bail. Set in New Jersey with lots of local color as well asnvery colorful characters, readers have come to know and love, including Grandma Mazur, who refuses to act her age, Lula, former 'ho and Stephanie's sidekick, and of course the hot and sexy men in her life, Ranger and Morelli.
At the start of the book, Morelli tells Stephanie that he needs a little time away from the relationship and she is hurt and confused, even more so when he says he is thinking of leaving the police department. She is trying to figure out what is going on with him. This time Stephanie is after a college kid who supposedly broke the dean's arm in a scuffle over fraternity pranks. But it turns out to be much more complicated to find him than she imagine for he has gone into hiding. Someone is keeping secrets in the basement of the fraternity house and they might be very deadly.
 As usual, Stephanie destroys cars, has to have Ranger bail her out of numerous confrontations with big bad FTA's, and goes to her parents' house for dinner when all else fails. Rex the hamster is still alive (the most long-lived hamster ever). Stephanie's mom gets a taste for chasing bad guys and likes it. Just the usual predictably zany antics strung together in a well-constructed "who done it" mystery. I think Lula gets some of the best lines this time around.