IF YOU ENJOY... THE STEPHANIE PLUM BOOKS BY JANET EVANOVICH Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter with atti- tude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and Au- gust heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jer- sey. She's a product of blue-collar Trenton, where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and dinner is served at six. Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot When her wild and womanizing younger 28-year-old former pop star Heather Wells brother goes missing in southern Florida, has hit rock bottom, but when she finds a job Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sun- in a college dorm, things seem to start look burn, and bugs in her search for him along- up...at least until girls in the dorm begin to side Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's perish at an alarming rate. brother has stolen his boat. The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer Isabel Spellman may have a checkered past Against all odds, Bubbles Yablonsky has re- littered with romantic mistakes & creative turned to school, but while on her way to jour- vandalism; but the upshot is she's good at nalism school, she happens upon a crime her job as a licensed P.I. with her family's scene and finds herself drawn into a murder firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading peo- investigation. ple's privacy comes naturally to Izzy. In fact, it comes naturally to all the Spellmans… Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth The Miracle Strip by Nancy Bartholomew Peters The whip-smart Sierra Lavotini is the hottest After her father's death, thirty-two-year-old act on Panama City's strip scene. She's the Amelia Peabody eschews the role of Victorian headliner at the bare-all bar, the Tiffany Club. spinster and travels to Egypt, where mysteri- Besides her bodacious business, Sierra's life ous intruders, boorish archaeologists, and a is fairly simple. And that's the way she likes it. disappearing two-thousand-year-old mummy But when a good friend, Denise, seeks her test her sanity and independence. help, Sierra's life takes a murderous turn. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Murder, with Peacocks by Donna Andrews Alan Bradley While trying to manage being the maid of It is the summer of 1950, and at the once- honor in three weddings, Meg Langslow finds grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de herself in the midst of a mystery when her for- Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for mer sister-in-law's soon-to-be stepfather is poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable found dead. events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. 1st to Die by James Patterson Imagine a killer who thinks, "What's the worst A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton thing anyone has ever done?" and then goes Nikki Fife, the wife of a hated divorce lawyer, far beyond it. Now imagine 4 women--a de- is out on parole after eight years in prison for tective, an asst D.A., a reporter, & a medical killing her husband. She hires ex-cop-turned- examiner --who get things done by helping private detective Kinsey Millhone to find the each other--and ignoring the rules. Welcome real killer and clear her name. to the world of the Women's Murder Club. Descriptions and images courtesy of NoveList, Amazon, and the PCLD Catalog. Readalikes are compiled by the Pinal County Library District staff and affiliate library employ- ees. MORE BY JANET EVANOVICH Stephanie Plum Series: One for the Money Eleven on Top Two for the Dough Twelve Sharp Three to Get Deadly Plum Lovin’* “The Last Peep” in The Plot Thick- Lean Mean Thirteen *Between ens (Short Story) Plum Lucky* the Numbers Four to Score Fearless Fourteen Holiday High Five Plum Spooky* Hot Six Finger Lickin’ Fifteen Novellas Seven Up Sizzling Sixteen Hard Eight Smokin’ Seventeen Visions of Sugar Plums* Explosive Eighteen To the Nines Notorious Nineteen Ten Big Ones Diesel has his own series: Wicked Appetite (2010) & Wicked Business (2012) We know Diesel from the Between-the-Numbers novellas, now meet Elizabeth Tucker, a pastry chef living a life of predictability. Diesel partners with Lizzy to track down relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins. The Seven Deadly Sins are pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that is wicked. Diesel thinks it also pretty much covers everything that's fun. And Lizzy thinks Diesel and the Seven Deadly Sins cover every- thing her mother warned her about. Romance Novels: Co-Authored Novels: Alex Barnaby Hero at Large With Charlotte Hughes series: Thanksgiving Full House Metro Girl The Grand Finale Full Tilt Motor Mouth Foul Play Full Speed Manhunt Full Blast Love Overboard Full Bloom Barnaby & Back to the Bedroom Full Scoop Hooker Graphic Novels: Smitten Troublemaker: Bk 1 Wife for Hire With Leanne Banks Troublemaker: Bk 2 The Rocky Road to Romance Hot Stuff Naughty Neighbor With Dorien Kelly Love in a Nutshell .