Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Tonight I finished this book. I don't know why this series entertains me so well. But it does. The characters are absolutely hilarious and I found myself laughing out lout, at least twice.

Lula is an ex-ho turned to working for a bounty hunter as a file clerk. She sometimes fills in with Stephanie to attempt to apprehend the bad guys. Stephanie is a terrible bounty hunter and relies on her relationship with a local cop or her relationship with another bounty hunter. Raaaaanger. He's finger lickin' good if you ask me. But you're not, so we'll move on.

Some killers are in town to assassinate the cook who will obviously win the barbeque cookoff. Lula witnesses the murder, then they come after her. She and her entourage enter the cooking contest and everything goes awry. The canopy catches on fire, the ribs fall on the ground, blah blah blah.

Ultimately, she catches the killers and everything right is restored in the world. The hamster is still alive. And Grandma Mazur is still alive. There have been FIFTEEN books, I just can't see how this is happening, but I'm enjoying it all just the same.

Especially coming off of My Sister's Keeper. If you read the book, go to the movie and leave about 20 minutes before it ends or else you'll need restraints to settle down your fury. If you watch the movie and don't read the book, call me, I'll tell you how it really ends. . .

I do have a quote. It made me laugh. Don't know if it will do the same for you but it was funny as shit when I read it. And again, just now to make sure it was funny:

"I thought back to Ernie as a kid. 'I can't remember him setting fires, but he did a lot of weird things. One time, he entered a talent show and tried to burp The Star-Spangled Banner,
And then he went through a period where he was sure he could make it rain, and he'd start chanting strange things in the middle of arithmetic. "Oowah doowah moo moo hooha." '

"Did it rain?"

"Sometimes."

"What else did he do? I'm starting to like this guy."

"He took a goat to the prom. Dressed it up in a pink ballerina outfit."

Now, that's funny. I took a goat to the prom too. Except I called him my boyfriend at the time :)