"I knew Ranger was beside me because I could see his earring gleaming in the moonlight. Everything else about him-- his T-shirt, his flack vest, his slicked-back hair and 9mm Glock-- was as black as the night."

• "Stephanie Plum is back! ... with a vengeance!"
  -- The Plot Thickens Mysterious Galaxy
• "The sharp repartee and Stephanie's slightly cynical but still fond relationship with her family and the burg hold a treasury of urban-style charms."
  --Publishers Weekly
• "Stephanie Plum, the motor-mouthed Jersey girl from Trenton... is back with her pepper spray, stun gun, up-to-here hair, and out to there attitude... That girl has some class."
  --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
• "TWO FOR THE DOUGH... [is] a delight from the laugh-out-loud heavy-armor beauty parlor scene to the family dinner table and back onto the mean streets."
  --Mystery Lovers Bookshop
• "Hilariously funny... bristling with believable sexual electricity."
  --USA Today