Diesel’s employers (the Board of Unmentionable Marshalls, or BUM) need Lizzy’s ability to scout out a collection of ancient relics known as the SALIGIA Stones, which represent the Seven Deadly Sins. It turns out that Lizzy, like Diesel, is an “Unmentionable”-a more-or-less mortal with special skills. So to say that Wicked Appetite kicks off a “new” series from author Janet Evanovich is a stretch.Īnd yet…Evanovich cooks up plenty of half-baked wackiness to nourish a tasty tale. Automobiles of various makes and models are also despoiled, then replaced. And as a cupcake chef at Dazzle’s Bakery in nearby Salem, she uses her oven for more than warming up takeout pizza.Īnd yet…Lizzy has not only inherited her Great Aunt Ophelia’s historic house in Marblehead, she seems to have been willed several of Stephanie’s prized recent companions: the golden now-you-see-him-now- you-don’t Diesel of the Between the Numbers series ( Visions of Sugar Plums to Plum Spooky), and his dark-haired dark-hearted cousin Gerwulf “Wulf” Grimoire ( Plum Spooky), as well as etiquette-challenged Carl the Monkey ( Fearless Fourteen, Plum Spooky). For another, she was raised in homogenous northern Virginia and now lives in quaint coastal Massachusetts, rather than gritty, multi-ethnic New Jersey. For one thing, she is blonde versus brunette. Elizabeth “Lizzy” Tucker seems to be the anti-Stephanie Plum.

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