Sunday, April 22, 2012

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1)
by Janet Evanovich

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wise-guys, 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.

1 comment:

Lady Loretta said...

OH MY GEEZ!!! HAHAHAHAA!!! How can so much go wrong in such a short time?! Witty and entertaining, Janet Evanovich is amazing at putting together tales of overcoming and survival in the most complicating and amusing predicaments. With villains like these creeping about, and FTA's that are challenging at every turn, with the exception of the drunk, you can't help but smile even as things go from bad to just comically worse! FUN FUN FUN!