When I read a Stephanie Plum novel, I know what I'm getting. Janet Evanovich will string together funerals, family dinners, car death, Steph's attempts to capture someone who skipped bail on a petty and/or weird crime, donuts, dead bodies, and Lula's over the top fashion sense. Fortune and Glory picks up where Twisted Twenty-Six leaves off. Grandma Mazur, recently widowed after a few hour marriage to one of the Lay-z-Boys, needs Steph's help to find the keys to her late husband's fortune (which may or may not exist). Sounds easy, except there's a gangster with a habit of dismembering those who get in his way also searching for the keys. Evanovich is deep in a rut, but the set pieces still make me laugh and she manages to string them together plausibly, or at least what passes for plausibly in Stephainie's world.
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