Janet Evanovich - Visions of Sugar Plums, To The Nines & Ten Big Ones

Sugar Plums is a Stephanie Plum novel, but a bit different from the other books in the series. It's a holiday special - more of a novella than a novel, and with a slightly different feel owing to its Christmas setting and the consequential entry of some fantasy elements - although, that said, it does work in a small amount of plot development, picking up where Eight left off. By happy coincidence, it was sitting on shelf beside Nine when I made a flying visit to the library to pick up that latter, so I got to read it in sequence (not having bothered to find out where it fit before). Anyway, it's not as good as the other books in the series, but not too bad for all that. There's nothing wrong with Nine(s) and Ten, though, except that Ten wraps up a bit abruptly, as if Evanovich hadn't bothered to write a proper ending and instead just threw in Sally to save Stephanie on the basis that someone has to save her, and it's already been Ranger and Morelli in previous books...almost caught up with the series, after which normal transmission with reading and general use of my time will resume - I've developed the bad habit of just putting everything else aside and reading these back to back (they're so pacy, entertaining, and quick to read) - although then again, with the start of work coming up very fast, maybe not...