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Where is the REAL Janet?

I have read all the Stephanie Plum books over and over again....from 1-11. They are like old friends.When 12 came out, I was very disappointed, but thought "oh well, one so-so in a great series is no big deal". 13 really left me disenchanted with the series. I was always one that was at the store on the day the books were to come out to snatch up a copy. One week ago, I bought the paperback version of the book that came out 16 months previously. After #12 and #13, I lost faith.And here is #14. One improvement over #13 is at least glaring mistakes aren't present (i.e. Stephanie's mom with a different name, logistics of the houses, etc. I TOLD you I read them over and over). Let's see what I have learned from Fearless Fourteen: Joe is now stupid, and Stephanie thinks of all these angles that never occured to Joe, the police detective. However, those deductive skills do not carry over to the bounty hunter job. Rex basically gets checked for two minutes every three days and is handed "a grape and a piece of cheese". No water. No other food. Any other hamster would be dead, but not Rex the wonder hamster Ranger is a puppet with Stephanie holding the strings, and his IQ is about the same as a grapefruit. Also, it is stated that Stephanie and Ranger have been intimate at least two or three times. As far as I know, they only "did it" once, in #8. Apparently, people breaking into your house/digging up your lawn/being dead in your basement really doesn't affect someone's life to any extent. Not sure about any of you, but it would me. If you have blue skin, and you go to ex-wives and sisters of dead people, they will open up and tell you everything you want to know. Lula has lost all interest in "popping a cap" and is in a very poorly written side story about forcing a marriage to Tank, who really isn't involved other than maybe a few sentences. Mom/Dad/Valerie/Albert/the girls/Vinnie/Connie must have all taken a trip to the Bahamas, because they surely have very little time, or none at all in this book. Someone can run a group home in his own house for misfits and not bat an eye. We can expect Madonna and Cher to come to our cities and become newscasters. They will have no other commitments other than one concert in our home towns, and then they will have weeks to get involved in a crime in a city away from home. I will not be reading #15. I am not sure Janet Evanovich is writing these by herself. I would swear #14 was ghost written. I fear JE is now in it only for the money, and has lost any interest in quality writing, or is bored with Stephanie, et. al.