Izzy is Australian and on the run from a knee-busting debt collector, thanks to a deadbeat ex-husband. They’re then hired out to high profile people who, apparently, might be poisoned. In case you, like me, are both a little tired of Stephanie Plum despite a previous love of the series and also wondering how long it will take for the 636 people in front of me in that library reserve list to read the most recent installment, here are a few other series you might like.Įat, Pray, Die Mysteries by Chelsea Field: The only time I’d heard of a professional taste-tester was in a Bible story, but this series is about a top-secret organization that trains its operatives to detect the tiniest hint of poison. I didn’t know it at the time, but what I was looking for was a cozy mystery with a strong female lead. So while waiting the months between releases (and the months I spent waiting my turn in the reserve line at the library), I started looking for similar series. (I didn’t even mind the Katherine Heigl movie, but that’s another post.) But over the past few years, the stories have become repetitive and the characters cliches. And even though the twenty-second book in the Janet Evanovich series came out last week, I’m not sure when I’ll get around to reading it.įor the first dozen and a half books, I enjoyed the series thoroughly.
So when I get sucked into a series, it takes a whole lot for me to stop reading it, to not pick up the next novel in the ongoing story.īut I have to admit, I’ve been struggling with Stephanie Plum.
While I don’t believe in wasting my time reading bad books, I also have an annoying, nagging need to know what happens in the end. I’m weirdly loyal (or stubborn?) that way. Even if the end is slow in coming and the seasons in between are full of lame jokes or nonsensical plot lines or irritating characters (or all of the above). Normally if I start watching a show, I am in it until the end. When I broke up with Grey’s Anatomy, it was a big deal.
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