by Janet Evanovich
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Read the Dynamite Blockbuster that Started It All!
Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family.
Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the time he first looked up her dress to the time he first got into her pants to the time Steph hit him with her father's Buick, M-o-r-e-l-l-i has spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. And now the hot guy is in hot water--wanted for murder.
Abject poverty is a great motivator for learning new skills, but being trained in the school of hard knocks by people like psycho prizefighter Benito Ramirez isn't. Still, if Stephanie can nab Morelli in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight--and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.
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Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She has to say that her Miata has been repossessed and that she's so poor at the moment that she just drank her last bottle of beer for breakfast. She has to say that her only chance out of her present rut is her repugnant cousin Vinnie and his bail-bond business. She has to say that she blackmailed Vinnie into giving her a bail-bond recovery job worth $10,000 (for a murder suspect), even though she doesn't own a gun and has never apprehended a person in her life. And she has to say that the guy she has to get, Joe Morelli, is the same creep who charmed away her teenage virginity behind the pastry case in the Trenton bakery where she worked after school. If that hard-luck story doesn't sound compelling enough, Stephanie's several unsuccessful attempts at pulling in Joe make a downright hilarious and suspenseful tale of murder and deceit. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) characters join the story, including Benito Ramirez, a champion boxer who seems to be following Stephanie Plum wherever she goes. Janet Evanovich shares an authentic feel for the streets of Trenton in her debut mystery (she developed her talents in a string of romance novels before creating Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery field of the 1990s. --Patrick O'Kelley
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Enjoyible, 2008-11-16
Stephanie Plum is a funny and resourceful character. Unemployed Plum gets a job with her cousin's bailbond agency to capture a bail jumper. Plum meets a pyscho boxer, steals the bail jumper's car, and attends family dinners. This is a light-hearted detective novel. Stephanie's character drives this novel.
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 Grandma Mazur just kills me, 2008-09-07
I love all the books in the Stephanie Plum series, but meeting Grandma Mazur (and especially Grandma's gun!) just had me laughing out loud. This is the one I revisit most often, and one of my favorite mysteries of all times.
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Pretty Good Stuff, 2008-09-06
Being a male, I am sure that I am not a member of Janet Evanovich's target audience. After reading her book titled How I Write I became curious about her fiction and gave this one a try. Reading this book was a great joy. Stephanie Plum is a lovable character who is down on her luck financially. She cons her uncle into letting her work in his bail bond office as a bounty hunter. Evanovich pulls no punches on Stephanie as she enters this tough world. The novel realistically presents the challenges faced by a woman in this brutal line of work. While things are not too easy for Stephanie, she takes it all in stride and displays a sense of humor that makes the story all the more enjoyable. There are romantic elements as well, since the person she is after for skipping out on his bail was someone that had seduced her when she was younger and then left for the military. If you enjoy action-adventure mysteries that are sprinkled with romantic tension, give this one a try. And if you are a guy, don't let the pastel colors on the cover turn you away. That being said, if Janet re-marketed her books with a little more hard-boiled packaging she may reach a whole new audience.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
No wonder people love this girl, 2008-08-29
So i finally decided to read a Stephanie Plum book. I read a few of Janets re-published romance books and enjoyed those. Steph is pretty funny with alot of spunk but liked that she was a little scared at the same time. There were a few disturbing things in the book that i'm not use to reading like violence scenes, but that's ok. I got alot of catching up to do to get threw this whole series but should be fun.
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Where it started:, 2008-08-25
Book 1 of course shows how it all began. How Stephanie comes to be a bounty hunter. And of course the first big job she gets is Joseph Morelli (yum), who she'll get $10,000 for bringing in. She runs into him about 4 or 5 different times without being able to bring him in. If the other bounty hunter found Joe that easy, he'd be behind bars. But Stephanie is a little wet behind the ears, and Morelli keeps rescuing her from stuff. Between you and me, even though he's a skirt chaser, I think he's got a little soft spot for her. They used to play train together in his basement when they were little kids. (And no, I'm not going to go into the finer details of what that is here.)
And then of course there was the time when they were teenagers when they had sex on the floor of a bakery behind the eclair case. hehe. One of my friends loves Ranger, and I know I haven't seen a lot of him in action yet...but I really have a soft spot for Morelli. And at this point I really want her with Morelli. He's gonna have to do something really stupid like Bill in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
The girl who recommended this series to me has really good taste in heroes, and likes Ranger, but I'm just not seeing it yet. Of course I'm told the Ranger storyline doesn't really heat up until much later. We shall see. I guess Morelli could screw it up by getting into her pants again and treating it like just another conquest. That would strike him out of the running.
He's got a prior history of that. But he's just so charming and so...Italian. Yum.
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