Finger Lickin Fifteen / Janet Evanovich / 385 pages / USA Today Bestseller

In this Stephanie Plum installment, the bound enforcement officer is at odds with her steady boyfriend, Joe Morelli.  She is working with Ranger, investigating a series of break-ins at Range Man protected sites.  Ranger and Lula are helping Steph with her collars.  Lula is being chased by machete-wielding killers because she witnessed the beheading of Stanley Chipolte.  Lula decides to enter and win his Bar-B-Que cook off.  Steph's eccentric Grandma Mazur is Lulu's willing assistant.  Laughs abound in this riot of murder, mayhem, and romance.