Aunt Mabel seems more interested in trading in Fred's old station wagon for a new luxury car than in locating her spouse. But I was also a month overdue on my rent. Somehow I was going to have to manage both problems. Manage is not quite the word for what transpires. Before you're halfway through the book, for instance, she's destroyed two of Ranger's company cars, one a sport utility vehicle, the other a Porsche.
Cars are easy to come by.
Amidst her professional debacles, she deals with the advances of Morelli and Ranger, charmers both. But Briggs the bail jumper is delaying everyone's gratification. Burglars ransacked his apartment while Stephanie was hauling him off to court. Stephanie is not only being admired and imposed upon, she's being followed. Evanovich definitely favors the Lula approach as it applies to writing.