All Girls Like Ponies: Mary Alice, one of Stephanie's nieces by her sister Valerie, takes this one further: she actually not just pretends to be a horse, but insists that she is one.

The Alleged Car: Stephanie has a lot of these, due to financial constraints and to her amazing talent for getting them destroyed at least Once an Episode.

She is described at one point looking like 'a deflated blow-up doll'.

Age-Inappropriate Dress: Whenever Grandma Mazur takes to dressing sexy.

He's normally very territorial when it comes to her dealings with Ranger, but in this instance, he actually suggested that Stephanie avail herself of his rival to 'take up the slack'. It got to the point where he locked himself into his guest bedroom just to get a good night's sleep. She manages to wear out Morelli, who finds almost any excuse to get it on with her.

Addiction Displacement: Stephanie has quite the Sweet Tooth, so when she gives up sugar for a while her libido goes into overdrive.

Action Girl: Stephanie is a humorous deconstruction of both this and Action Survivor.

She says 'I Love You!' to him jokingly only because he brings food. Aborted Declaration of Love: Stephanie chickens out of telling Joe how she feels.Lizzy and Diesel, A spinoff series focusing on Diesel (who appears in the 'between the numbers' books) is also underway. The books are pretty funny, with surreal humour, exploding cars, the weirdness that is Grandma Mazur and some take-downs gone very dodgy.Ī film based on the first book was released in January 2012 with Katherine Heigl as Stephanie it was poorly reviewed and lost money in cinemas, but the author liked it. There are also four 'between the numbers' books, with a slightly more paranormal slant (but still as hilarious as the rest of the series), with titles based on the word 'Plum' and various holiday themes (so far, Christmas, Valentine's Day, St.

Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (2022).Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (2020).This is a series of 29 (so far) novels, helpfully numbered via their titles: though usually it's after creating a whole lot of chaos in her wake. Both with and without their help, Stephanie manages to take down criminals, expose major crimes, and she always gets her man. Of course, the fact that she has no idea what she's doing becomes somewhat problematic, but Stephanie's nothing but determined, and she soon acquires help: her new best friend Lula, a former hooker her on-again off-again sort-of-boyfriend Joe Morelli, a cop Grandma Mazur, her absolutely insane grandmother and Ranger, a fellow bounty hunter who redefines 'man of mystery'. Stephanie Plum is a good girl at a bad end who, upon finding that she's rapidly running out of money, decides to take up an interesting career choice.

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