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Seattle Picks: If You Like Janet Evanovich

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum may be the star of Janet Evanovich's humorous mystery series, but it's the mix of romance, quirky sidekicks, and bungling criminals that drive these books to the top of best-seller lists. Here are a few other books you might enjoy. Descriptions taken from publishers' descriptions unless otherwise stated.

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  • Nick Monday may call himself a private investigator, but that's a cover for his real profession: luck poacher. Over years of stealing luck from the fortunate and selling it to the desperate and addicted, he's carved out a small,…
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2012. — FIC BROWNE 2012
  • Sofie's retained by the neighborhood vampire to prove he isn't responsible for a recent string of grisly murders. Meanwhile, things heat up on the romantic front when Jake and Dino both decide to vie for her undivided attention.
    BookSutton, Surrey ; New York : Severn House, 2011, c2010. — MYSTERY CARRING 2011
  • Candice (and her sisters) have moved in with Patrick and everything is more than she could have ever dreamed. Then suddenly she (they) are in knee-deep in new case that brings the escaped Threefer Killers back onto the scene.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2013. — FIC DAVIDSO 2013
  • With Charlie convalescing from a gunshot wound, Gigi is temporarily running Swift Investigations when Heather-Anne Pawlusik, the tramp who ran off with Gigi's husband, Les, saunters into the office. Heather-Anne wants to hire the firm to…
    BookNew York : Minotaur, 2012. — MYSTERY DISILVE 2012
  • In Berlin, Charlie Howard, part-time writer, part-time thief, is called to duty on behalf of Her Majesty's Government to locate a sensitive stolen item and in the course of his "duty" witnesses a murder. And that's just for starters.
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2013. — MYSTERY EWAN 2013
  • Readers will go crazy for the latest Kate Holly case... Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and-after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match…
    BookNew York : Jove Books, 2009. — FIC HUGHES 2009
  • Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA…
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2010. — FIC ISAACS 2010
  • Resolving to avoid son of Satan and new next-door neighbor Reyes Farrow, Charley Davidson is forced to ask for Reyes's help when she is approached by desperate ghosts and her sister is targeted by a serial killer.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2013. — FIC JONES 2013
  • Wollie goes undercover in a media-training company suspected of video piracy. When a dead body appears on the company's property, she's caught up in a conspiracy that goes way beyond some stolen DVDs.
    BookNew York : Broadway Books, [2009] — MYSTERY KOZAK 2009
  • Cat sips her beer and is thinking about lunch when a man dressed as Santa Claus walks into the bar. He speaks briefly with the bartender and disappears behind doors designated Employees Only. Ten minutes later there's a commotion and Santa…
    BookScottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2013. — MYSTERY LARSEN 2013
  • Traveling to Wisconsin when a family member with gambling problems is threatened and then implicated in a murder, Stella Hardesty investigates numerous alternate suspects including the victim's business partner, a purveyor of black-market…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2012. — MYSTERY LITTLEF 2012
  • Targeted by the members of her dysfunctional family for control over Spellman Investigations after staging a retaliatory takeover, Izzy is wrongly accused of embezzling funds from a wealthy Alzheimer's patient.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2013. — FIC LUTZ 2013
  • With her daughter's college tuition to pay, Roxy can almost convince herself that the shady jobs are legal. But when Carmine's consigliere offers Roxy a contract to kidnap someone, that's a line she won't cross.
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2011. — MYSTERY MARTIN 2011
  • Wanted Deb or Alive

    a Debutante Detective Mystery

    Moore, Laurie
    Dainty's younger sister, Teensy, is in critical condition in a Ciudad Juárez hospital and her friend is missing after a ride in a gypsy cab. On the way to rescue Teensy, Dainty runs into a sexually ambiguous pygmy dressed as a streetwalker…
    BookWaterville, Me. : Five Star, 2011. — MYSTERY MOORE 2011
  • Three months has been Gladie Burger's limit when it comes to staying in one place. That's why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her eccentric Grandma Zelda recruits her to the family's matchmaking business in the quaint small…
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2013. — FIC SAX 2013
  • Cool Cache

    a Tucker Sinclair Mystery

    Smiley, Patricia
    To help her new chocolate shop flourish, gourmande Helen Taggart has hired Tucker Sinclair and Associates. (Tucker will admit that by “Associates,” she means Eugene, an asthmatic young secretary and Dick Tracy wannabe.) Then one night,…
    BookNew York : Obsidian, 2008. — MYSTERY SMILEY 2008
  • Now working as a junior detective with the New York City Special Investigations Commission, Zephyr’s gone incognito as a concierge to find out who laundered a hundred grand off the hotel books-and why. But the discovery of a prone,…
    BookNew York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011. — MYSTERY UVILLER 2011
  • Teddy Ruzak, the earnest detective, is faced with an impossible dilemma when a vicious psychopath targets his beloved Gal Friday. Can he save her without sacrificing everything he believes in?
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2011. — MYSTERY YANCEY 2011