Takedown Twenty: Janet Evanovich

This was another funny story in the Stephanie Plum series, while searching for a fugitive Lula and Stephanie spot a giraffe running down the road. A man is then accidently shot with a dart meant for the giraffe and the man dies. The giraffe sporadically shows up in the book, both Lula and Ranger become enchanted with it. Stephanie is supposed to bring in "Sunny" Morielli's uncle who was videoed killing a man by a kid, who later put the video on you tube. There is also a murderer in town who is killing senior citizens and throwing them in dumpsters. Stephanie thinks there might me a connection to bingo, since the women all played. While trying to apprehend sunny she is thrown off the bridge by the elderly mob and saved by Ranger. She temporarily takes a job as a butcher until she unintentionally sets the owners house on fire. In the end everything pointed back to Sunny. He was murdering the women as a "Sex" game, he had the giraffe for a " big game hunting restaurant" he was building in the middle of town, the giraffe was stolen. While this is going on Stephanie was also trying to apprehend a young thug. She accidently shot his ear off and then the thug's girlfriend mistook them for other lovers when they tried to nab him a second time. The girlfriend shot his foot. At the end of the book Lula and Stephanie find him at the basketball court looking pathetic. After deciding that it would be too sad to nab him now that he couldn't put up a fight, they decide to bring him in. I found this book funnier than the others and really enjoyed it.