One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

Another recommendation and acquired at the library...
Interesting read as it is set in New Jersey not tooooo far from where I spent four years of my childhood. So there were things that rang true and brought up lots of memories (like references to being the sewer of New York and general pollution issues...) but there were many things that were just a long way outside a 5-9 year old's experience!
A fast, light sort of read. Very interesting characterisation. I'd like to read something by Janet Evanovich that wasn't part of this series to work out just how good she is at creating these characters - particularly the narrator, Stephanie Plum. The language and grammar used so much built up her character and set the whole tone. But if that is just the way Evanovich speaks/writes then it is less interesting!!
Bits of the book were NASTY (rape and mutilation). They were over fairly quickly but left enough hanging that it was icky for rather longer.
Some gentle humour on the way through. For the general humour mixed with detective work type element, it was clearly not a patch on Thursday Next but that isn't really an insult to Ms Evanovich, just the continuing haven't-found-anything-to-compare-so-happy-Thursday-is-coming-back-this-year thing...
I expect I will read the rest of the series over time, I'm assured this is actually the nastiest of the series so far so I'm looking forward to more comedy moments in the next few!