"There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me-- not forever, but periodically."

• "Fat chance of missing Stephanie Plum. A Jersey girl with Bette Midler's mouth and Cher's fashion sense- big hair, gold hoop earrings, Spandex shorts, tons of turquoise eye shadow and attitude out to here- Stephanie kind of glows in the dark in Janet Evanovich's hip-swinging genre debut... With her brazen style and dazzling wardrobe, who could resist this doll?"
  -- The New York Times Book Review
• "Stephanie is intelligent, cheery, and genuine. In fact, of the current lineup of female detectives, almost all of them tediously feisty and quirky, she's the only one you'd want to eat pizza with."
  --Entertainment weekly
• "An absolute delight, the kind of book that reminds us how much fun reading mysteries should be. This book has a least one chuckle per page as well as a couple of real belly laughs every chapter."
  --The Denver Post
• "Comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air... Goes down like a tall, cool drink."
  --The Washington Post