One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) Review
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This is the 1st book of the series (to date there are 15). Stephanie is our heroine and she is one of the best female leads I have read in a very very very long time. Poor Steph is divorced, she has been laid off from her job, her car has been repossessed and she is low on furniture because she had to sell it to pay her rent. At first glance, you may think Stephanie is a loser, but she’s not – she’s honest and pays her bills (as best as she can) even if that means she has nothing to sit on. Poor Stephanie even mooches meals and laundry from her parents.
Stephanie goes to work for her cousin Vinnie, a bailbondsman and mayhem ensues. For some reason, she thinks she is capable of apprehending criminals when her last job was in ladies lingerie. This is just too funny. Her first big case happens to be a man from her high school past and he is a cop who has been framed for murder. He also happens to be the man who took her virginity and she does not remember him too fondly.
After many mis-steps, she finally gets her man – sort of. This book is funny, laugh out loud funny and a very quick easy read. I couldn’t wait to get to the next installment. Janet Evanovich has a real winner here. I have since read all 15 books and I have loved them all, so I won’t critique each one individually. The arsenal of characters grows and you really begin to think you know these people.
Give these books a try – you won’t be disappointed.
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) Feature
- ISBN13: 9780312362089
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) Overview
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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.
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1) Specifications
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 ,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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