I have cast some different actors as the characters for Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books as I have read them. I picture them in my head as I read each book. The first actor that came to me was for Joe Morelli, Brennan Elliot kept popping into my head as the perfect fit. The next actor that I could strongly see matched with an actor is Faison Love as Benito Ramirez. I knew what Ranger should look like to have that sex/mystery/danger personified look before I could remember the actor’s name, JenCarlos Canela. In my imagination him saying “Babe” was so sultry…’nuf said. I strongly saw Monique as Lula, although Nicole Byers or Wanda Sykes (if she willing to gain weight for the part would be perfect!) I saw Jimmy Alpha as an actor who could be really likeable to the audience throughout the movie and then surprise us all when he tries to kill Stephanie and admits engineering some of the problems with Benito, I could see Bruno Mars or Nestor Carbonell believably pulling it off. Grandma Mazur was really easy to picture as Betty White, Goldie Hawn, Sally Field or Kathleen Turner as believable to be a whacky grandma for Steph and also a down to earth grittiness that these actresses would have the ‘chops’ to carry off. Connie I could picture played by Lady Gaga, Nicole ‘Snookie’ Polizzi or Debi Mazur, they all have that Jersey credibility and have more body than the bit younger Stephanie. Casting for Stephanie was the hardest because my imagination knew how she should look but match that to an actress with comic skill and a naïve look to go with her bumbling…Yuh. I came up with the combination of Kate Mara, Carla Gugino, Ashley Judd or Anne Hathaway, not perfect but if some of them were younger and if others had help from some body enhancements from the crew, who knows?? No matter what I’m thankful Janet Evanovich writes the series. The audiobook version is awesome(if only they didn’t cost so much, thanks to my local library for having most of them on Overdrive.) Also, it makes a difference for a reader if they keep the same narrator throughout a book series (thank you Ms. Evanovich and all business involved supporting her use of Lorelei King). I got into reading another author’s series and the voices were spot on, then I sign out the next book and there is a new narrator with a completely different voice that is in the low range and does not voice the other characters differently(it was a feature in the previous books that really brought to life a central, humorous character).