This is a madcap adventure with a lot of slapstick - the eleventh in the Stephanie Plum Series. If you are new to the series, start with One for the Money and work your way through them.

Most of the great characters are in Eleven on Top - Morelli, Grandma Mazur, Lula, Ranger, Grandma Bella, the powder blue Buick, Bob the dog and Rex the Hamster and Stephanie's immediate family. It is like catching up on old friends.

Grandma Mazur and Grandma Bella have a ridiculous but hilarious fight at Stiva's Funeral Home; it is laugh out loud action. And you have to read about the mole - it will make you squirm and laugh at the same time. Plus Stephanie's declaration that she can play the cello - we have all done something similar and but not let it get that far. As usual, cars driven by Stephanie are blown up and she is shot and has little regard for her safety, she is saved from a tight spot at the end and lives on for book number 12.

Stephanie's inability to hold a job until Ranger comes to the rescue is funny but wears a bit thin. Lula's antics are very entertaining and she has taken on Stephanie's mantle as the most absolutely hopeless bounty hunter. Lula is in top form.

Stephanie is much closer to Morelli, and he to her, but it is still really annoying in that she can't even tell him she loves him which is pathetic given his declarations. He is so nice, and you know they are made for each other, so her behaviour seems very juvenile.

There's lots of flirtation with Ranger, and it sounds as if we may hear more about his secret/past life in future books. He kind of gives me the creeps though, however sexy he is and how much cares about Stephanie. I prefer her with Morelli as it is much more realistic and enjoyable to read than the fantasy of Ranger. I'd love to see her married/engaged or have a child with Morelli while still working for Ranger because I think there is more mileage in that than Morelli putting up with her inability to commit or declare her feelings. I really hope Ms Evanovich rounds out the relationship more in the next book. In this one it is as if they are still high school kids.

I read the book in 4 hours and I really wish it had more to it. There are some really funny moments and some fast paced action, but you have to suspend belief to enjoy it. It is much better than Ten Big Ones but not as good as One for the Money. It is worth getting out of the library or sharing with a friend rather than waiting for the paperback, but maybe not worth £14.99.

This is one of the best thriller books I have read in a long, long time. I don't know a fetlock from a foot locker, but it really isn't important if you are into the horse world or not. It just makes a fascinating background to what is superb storytelling. The plot is wonderful and the ending completely unpredictable, I doubt if anyone could work it out in advance. However, apart from the great plot, what I really loved about the book was the development of the central characters. The girl, Molly, a pivotal character, really tugged on the heart strings, but it was the initially reluctant heroine and hero, who just leap off the page. I wished they could have had more scenes together, but it was really refreshing not to have everything revealed at once. I think the romance angle was perfectly pitched. It developed over the book through a growing respect for each other's professional abilities, humanity and guts, and you just knew at the end of the book they would be good for each other because it wasn't based on the surface stuff as you find in so many other books. The relationship was much more realistic than books where they fall into each other's arms, or bed, within a few chapters. I borrowed this book from a friend and it was so good I had to go out and buy my own copy because I wanted to read it all over again, and I have, twice, in the space of a month. It was so good I never wanted it to end and would love to see the two central characters continuing in another book. The subliminal messages of not judging a person by the attitudes of others, rebuilding one's life, that one error of judgement doesn't make you a bad person, that you don't have to look perfect to be valued, and above all of hope in the future was uplifting. I also like Sue Grafton's books, some of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (but not the absolutely dire rubbish Metro Girl) and the later works of Sandra Brown, but this book knocked them all into a cocked hat. It was simply the best novel I have read for years - an absolute classic.

This is one of the best books I have read in a long, long time. I don't know a fetlock from a foot locker, but it really isn't important if you are into the horse world or not. It just makes a very interesting background to what is superb storytelling. The plot is wonderful and the ending completely unpredictable, I doubt if anyone could work it out in advance. However, apart from the great plot, what I really loved about the book was the development of the central characters. The girl, Molly, a pivotal character, really tugged on the heart strings, but it was the initially reluctant heroine and hero, who just leap off the page. I wished they could have had more scenes together, but it was really refreshing not to have everything revealed at once. I think the romance angle was perfectly pitched. It developed over the book through a growing respect for each other's professional abilities, humanity and guts, and you just knew at the end of the book they would be good for each other because it wasn't based on the surface stuff as you find in so many other books. The relationship was much more realistic than books where they fall into each other's arms, or bed, within a few chapters. I borrowed this book from a friend and it was so good I had to go out and buy my own copy because I wanted to read it all over again, and I have, twice, in the space of a month. It was so good I never wanted it to end and would love to see the two central characters continuing in another book. The subliminal messages of not judging a person by the attitudes of others, rebuilding one's life, that one error of judgement doesn't make you a bad person, that you don't have to look perfect to be valued, and above all of hope in the future was uplifting. I also like Sue Grafton's books, some of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (but not the absolutely dire rubbish Metro Girl) and the later works of Sandra Brown, but this book knocked them all into a cocked hat. It was simply the best novel I have read for years - an absolute classic.

This is one of the best books I have read in a long, long time. I don't know a fetlock from a foot locker, but it really isn't important if you are into the horse world or not. It just makes a very interesting background to what is superb storytelling. The plot is wonderful and the ending completely unpredictable, I doubt if anyone could work it out in advance. However, apart from the great plot, what I really loved about the book was the development of the central characters. The girl, Molly, a pivotal character, really tugged on the heart strings, but it was the initially reluctant heroine and hero, who just leap off the page. I wished they could have had more scenes together, but it was really refreshing not to have everything revealed at once. I think the romance angle was perfectly pitched. It developed over the book through a growing respect for each other's professional abilities, humanity and guts, and you just knew at the end of the book they would be good for each other because it wasn't based on the surface stuff as you find in so many other books. The relationship was much more realistic than books where they fall into each other's arms, or bed, within a few chapters. I borrowed this book from a friend and it was so good I had to go out and buy my own copy because I wanted to read it all over again, and I have, twice, in the space of a month. It was so good I never wanted it to end and would love to see the two central characters continuing in another book. The subliminal messages of not judging a person by the attitudes of others, rebuilding one's life, that one error of judgement doesn't make you a bad person, that you don't have to look perfect to be valued, and above all of hope in the future was uplifting. I also like Sue Grafton's books, some of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (but not the absolutely dire rubbish Metro Girl) and the later works of Sandra Brown, but this book knocked them all into a cocked hat. It was simply the best novel I have read for years - an absolute classic.

This is one of the best books I have read in a long, long time. I don't know a fetlock from a foot locker, but it really isn't important if you are into the horse world or not. It just makes a very interesting background to what is superb storytelling. The plot is wonderful and the ending completely unpredictable, I doubt if anyone could work it out in advance. However, apart from the great plot, what I really loved about the book was the development of the central characters. The girl, Molly, a pivotal character, really tugged on the heart strings, but it was the initially reluctant heroine and hero, who just leap off the page. I wished they could have had more scenes together, but it was really refreshing not to have everything revealed at once. I think the romance angle was perfectly pitched. It developed over the book through a growing respect for each other's professional abilities, humanity and guts, and you just knew at the end of the book they would be good for each other because it wasn't based on the surface stuff as you find in so many other books. The relationship was much more realistic than books where they fall into each other's arms, or bed, within a few chapters. I borrowed this book from a friend and it was so good I had to go out and buy my own copy because I wanted to read it all over again, and I have, twice, in the space of a month. It was so good I never wanted it to end and would love to see the two central characters continuing in another book. The subliminal messages of not judging a person by the attitudes of others, rebuilding one's life, that one error of judgement doesn't make you a bad person, that you don't have to look perfect to be valued, and above all of hope in the future was uplifting. I also like Sue Grafton's books, some of the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (but not the absolutely dire rubbish Metro Girl) and the later works of Sandra Brown, but this book knocked them all into a cocked hat. It was simply the best novel I have read for years - an absolute classic.

I found this book really disappointing. The plot line was okay, but the situations were totally unbelievable at time and without the asides and humour of the Plum series. The main character was okay, but seemed to rely on short pink skirts as much as her wits and made some ridiculous decisions - she was like Barbie with a lobotomy. The hero/love interest, self-proclaimed "NASCAR man" was infuriating. He talked about himself in the third person which was absolutely pathetic and no woman, excepting lobotomised Barbie types, would endure that. I kept wishing he would die, just to shut him up.

Janet Evanovich writes the other peripheral characters with some good lines and action, but you do need to suspend any sense of reality in order to make them believable.