The Job (Fox & O'Hare, #3)

by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

I'm a big Stephanie Plum fan, and I was also a devoted Monk watcher when the show was airing, so Evanovich and Goldberg teaming up was very appealing to me. I was expecting Evanovich's snappy flirty dialogue (which I got) and Goldberg's mystery and flair for action (which I also got), but somehow the combination didn't quite work as well as I was hoping.

The scenes between Kate and Nick were a lot of fun and very reminiscent of Stephanie and Morelli from the earlier books in the Stephanie Plum series, I just wish there had been more of that interaction throughout the book. That's not to knock the action/suspense plot, it's good too. I liked the motley crew of characters who Kate and Nick enlist to carry out their big con to snare a drug lord (it was very Ocean's Eleven), and the pace never slowed.

I guess my issue came down to medium. I think I would have LOVED seeing this story as a TV show or even a movie, because in a lot of ways it read like a screenplay. The writing was very straightforward and almost plain. When Kate was fighting or dodging bullets, the writing didn't exactly bring the scene to life. Lots of cool things happen, and again, Evanovich's dialogue was great fun, but there wasn't enough here to make me want to dive into this series like I continue to do with her Stephanie Plum series.

But if a TV show or movie is in the works, I'm sold.