This is the latest Stephanie Plum book by the Author and can be read as a standalone .

Stephanie's boss , Vinnie , has taken ownership of a Deli - a skip bail forfeiture , promptly installing her as Manager . There is a problem that he has kept from her ....... three previous Managers have disappeared after taking out the rubbish !
Along with her sidekick Lula and co-horts Morelli and Ranger , she decides to investigate - was it Aliens as Lula thinks ? or something more mundane ? Stephanie is not exactly the best bounty hunter , in fact she could be described as inept and that shows through in her investigation , what can go wrong usually does - right through to the outrageous conclusion .
The book is full of laughs , particularly from Lula and keeps the reader thoroughly entertained .

I was given an arc of the book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Typical Evanovich. Loved being back with all the usual characters though. It always feels like a homecoming when I pick up the latest read, fun filled frolicks, with the usual sexual tension and mad cap mishaps.

Janet Evanovich is hands down my all time favourite author. I fell in love with the Stephanie Plum series almost twenty years ago and they’re still my go to read when I want something warm and fuzzy!
I love that even though it’s a series, there’s usually enough tidbits given in each individual novel that you don’t have to have read all of them. Although, why the heck not? It’s a brilliant series that I will always wait with baited breath for the next instalment.
I loved this story as much as the first, keep them coming Janet, no pressure!

Another highly entertaining Stephanie Plum caper; this time Stephanie is taken out of her comfort zone (if you can call bounty hunting a comfort) and made manager of a deli, where the managers keep disappearing. All the usual cast of characters are involved - Lula, Ranger, Morelli, helping Stephanie to solve the mystery. Easy to read, this is like comfort food for the brain. Roll on the next instalment.

Probably all that really need be said about Look Alive 25 is that it’s another immensely enjoyable Stephanie Plum book...which, of course, means that it’s completely absurd, quite exciting, very funny in places and just a huge pleasure to read.

This time Stephanie and the wonderful Lula find themselves running a deli (don’t ask) with the help of two amusing druggie cooks, whose managers keep disappearing in very suspicious circumstances. They have their usual chaotic time at their day job of apprehending Bail Bond defaulters, Stephanie has her choice of the two sexiest men in New Jerseyand Lula is her unfailingly hilarious self (her creative sandwich-making and dress sense as a waitress are simply brilliant). The only classic Evanovich trope missing here is that Stephanie fails to total a single car, although to be fair, she makes up for it spectacularly in other ways.

Evanovich’s writing is as crisp, witty and readable as ever, and 25 books in, this series shows no sign of slowing down or growing stale. This is well up to standard and warmly recommmended.

Ah it's not properly November until Stephanie Plum has a new adventure.

I'm a long term fan of this series,but haven't enjoyed the last few quite so much.
This one is a lot tamer.... nothing too crazy.
It's amusing,and silly but in a good way.
Stephanie comes across as a bit too male dominated in this one though,just surrending her self to whatever Joe or Ranger tells her.
There's a huge hole where Grandma should have been too... very missing from the story.
On the whole though,enjoyable. 
I'm looking forward to 26 with more enthusiasm than I was 25

A demented Scooby Doo-alike plot but this is just so much fun! Lula and Steph are running a diner where the managers all disappear while taking out the rubbish, leaving a single shoe behind... and the scrumptious Ranger has a full role to play (though, sadly, a fully dressed one - apart from a tantalising few inches of perfect abs 😍) And don't even get me started on Lula and the chilli dog penis...! Brilliantly bonkers, the perfect cold weather antidote.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Headline for a review copy of Look Alive Twenty-Five, the twenty-fifth adventure for New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.

Stephanie’s boss, Vinnie, takes ownership of a local deli as a bail forfeiture and promptly installs her as the manager. What he doesn’t tell her is that the three previous managers have disappeared into thin air while taking out the rubbish, leaving nothing but a shoe.

I thoroughly enjoyed Look Alive Twenty-Five which is a fun read with an inventive plot. It is told in the first person from Stephanie’s point of view so as she is a rather inept bounty hunter the laughs just keep coming. The plot is clever with the mystery being in why the victims were kidnapped - her sidekick Lula is convinced it’s the work of aliens, Stephanie is less convinced while Morelli and Ranger aren’t convinced at all. The answer is outrageous but not beyond the realm of possibility, like most of the novel. The verbal humour comes from Lula who is laugh out loud funny and the situational humour comes, mostly, from Stephanie’s attempts at fugitive apprehension where anything that could go wrong normally does, in spades. The whole novel is charming in tone with a certain naivety on Stephanie’s part contributing.

There is nothing really new in the novel as the characters, their relationships and environment are well established. I imagine that if you read several of the novels in a row they would appear very samey but at one a year I still find them a treat to be savoured so I have no hesitation in recommending Look Alive Twenty-Five as a good read.