With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who'd rather kill than lose. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie's virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter - you go after the big money.
If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. If you enjoy mysteries and women who keep facing adversity with chutzpah and a sense of humor, may I suggest One for the Money? If it’s not your speed, I highly recommend visiting with the librarians at the Reference desk.You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. There’s really not a lot I can write that hasn’t already been written about the series or is a spoiler. There’s a nonfatal use of a firearm at the dinner table, a lot of cat-and-mouse with her target and the first in a long line of bad luck with vehicles that aren’t Uncle Sandor’s Buick. What follows is a lot of Stephanie bumbling around as she learns how to do her job, using her community connections and checking in with her reluctantly close-knit family. She needs a job, she needs it quickly, and her best option is working for her objectionable cousin, a bail bondsman.
Whether it was the fact that the hapless Stephanie’s trials kept accumulating faster than mine, or that her first-person narration of them was so dryly funny, I was drawn in quickly.
But I really needed a book and the beginning of Stephanie Plum’s misadventures were a hilarious fulfillment of my request. The books had been around for a while (25 years in 2019!) and the numbered title thing seemed like a gimmick copying Grafton, who was at least limited by the English alphabet (little did we know…). To be honest, initially I had avoided the series. My friends came through with a few ideas, one of which was One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. “I need something enjoyable that I don’t have to think about very hard.” What do you do? If you’re Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter.Ībout a decade ago I had been going through a really rough patch and I asked the Reference librarians for suggestions for books I could read. From the publisher: You’ve lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car’s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month’s rent.
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