Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

The emcee holds Lula hostage at gunpoint and confesses: Chipotle was having an affair with the company president's wife, who planned to divorce her husband and carry half his assets to a new company founded with Chipotle. He identifies his accomplice as the cook-off's emcee, a vice president of the sauce company that employed Chipotle. On the day of the cook-off, one of the killers, 'Marco the Maniac' is caught trying to flee to the airport. While Lula attempts to perfect her 'skills' as a chef, she is attacked several times by Chipotle's (extremely inept) killers, but manages to escape each time, though she is forced to move in with Stephanie, and later with the Plum family, and her prized Pontiac Firebird is destroyed by a poorly-constructed car bomb. He also offers to lend his considerable skills as a bounty hunter to helping her do her regular job. He asks Stephanie to resume her job at Rangeman, as a pretext for snooping around. Several of Ranger's clients' homes have been burglarized, leading him to suspect one of his men. Despite her complete lack of culinary skills, she is joined by Stephanie's Grandma Mazur, their friend Connie Rosoli, and a reluctant Stephanie. When Chipotle's sponsors offer a $1 million reward for the capture of the killers, Lula decides to enter an upcoming BBQ cook-off contest, deciding that the most likely suspect is a rival chef.

Stephanie's friend Lula witnesses the murder (by decapitation) of celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle. So good you'll want seconds.Finger Lickin' Fifteen is a 2009 novel by Janet Evanovich, the fifteenth in the Stephanie Plum series.

Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, and five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, and solve Ranger's problems and not jump his bones? Enough said.īring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help find he killer and collect the moolah.Īdd a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plum's Grandma Mazur. 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. 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. Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton in a barbecue cookoff and loses his head - literally. It's the spiciest, sauciest, most rib-sticking Plum yet.

Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich