Hot Six
 2000 Paperback cover | |
| Author | Janet Evanovich |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Stephanie Plum |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Publication date | June 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| ISBN | 1-4028-0666-3 |
| Preceded by | High Five |
| Followed by | Seven Up |
Hot Six is the sixth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and was written in 2000.
Plot summary
The prologue begins at the point where High Five ended, revealing who Stephanie picked: Ranger or Joe Morelli.
Five months later... Stephanie's latest FTA, Carol Zabo, is attempting to avoid jail-time by jumping off a bridge to drown herself. Stephanie talks her down by promising to persuade the man who reported her not to press charges.
Returning to the bonds office, Stephanie is handed a nightmare assignment: Ranger has gone FTA, and Stephanie has to track him down. Apart from her attraction to and respect for Ranger, Stephanie knows that his skills as a bounty hunter are far beyond hers. Ranger was scheduled to appear in court for a minor charge of carrying a concealed weapon, but he is also wanted for questioning related to a fire in an office park, where Homer Ramos, the son of notorious international arms dealer Alexander Ramos, was killed. Stephanie is afraid Ranger might be suspected of murdering Homer, and even more afraid that he might have actually done it.
Stephanie must chase down Ranger, while being followed by two hit men (and getting four cars destroyed in the process). Stephanie's eccentric Grandma Mazur has moved in, as well, and to top it all off, Plum has to deal with a stoner named Mooner.
In the end, it all works out. Stephanie even gains a proposal out of the deal.
Car deaths
This is a list of cars destroyed or abandoned by Stephanie Plum during the course of the novel.
- Honda Civic, burned up by reefer from Mooner
- "Rollswagon", not dead, just abandoned for being junk
- Lincoln Town Car, hit by Morris Munson
- Carpet Car, set on fire by flaming dog poop bag
FTAs
- Carol Zabo: shoplifting, destruction of police property
- Morris Munson: vehicular manslaughter
- Lenny Dale: domestic violence
- Walter "Moon Man" Dunphy: drunk and disorderly, urinating in public