Stalking is a serious issue that can have long-lasting mental health impacts. Last week’s blog post discussed how to cope with the trauma of being stalked, as well as providing tips on how to raise awareness of the issue in your local area by organizing a book club event.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
Reading one of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels is like going home. Comforting and familiar and full of humor. In Game On, Stephanie as after a computer hacker turned murderer. The mysterious Diesel has also returned for this installment, also after the same fugitive. Lula is going through a bout of bad luck in this book, and it seems like she can’t do anything right. Mix a mooner and a duck-roaster into the mix, and hilarity ensues.
He’s also a psychopath who feeds on suffering and chaos when his hacking projects get boring.
Janet Evanovich, Game On
Summary
When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude whom she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy.
Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Stephanie may not be the most technologically savvy sleuth, but she more than makes up for that with her dogged determination, her understanding of human nature, and her willingness to do just about anything to bring a fugitive to justice. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition, she’ll need to watch her back every step of the way as she works to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world in this “action-packed caper filled with crazy twists and some nail-biting suspense” (Booklist, starred review).
I like that teaser. I want to know who it is about.
Here’s Teaser Tuesday.