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Author name: Janet Evanovich

: One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312362089
ISBN number: 0312362080
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 334
Printing Date: June 13, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 10289
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin



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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 very first looked up her dress to the time he very 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



Customer Reviews
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - No wonder people love this girl
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.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Where it started:
Book 1 of course shows how it all began. How Stephanie comes to be a bounty hunter. And of course the very 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.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - fun, fun, fun
This was my very first evanovich book and it was soooo much fun!!! True summer reading! I do not generally read mass market books and am I happy I did. No deep thinking, reflecting, understanding characters here. Just pure reading fun . Fast, enjoyable, a great read.


Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - Did Anyone Else Realize How Racist This Book Is?
I read this book at the behest of a co-worker. She hyped it up as a humorous, quick and easy read.

About 50 pages into the book, I got offended by the main character who was a "white woman invading a grey man's gym." I marked the page and continued to read hoping this would be the last time I read such a remark. Drudging on, the main character approached a man she was to append for skipping bail. The character says "Let's face it, how many bearded fat white men lived in this neighborhood?" I would have stop reading the book then. Unfortunately, I promised my co-worker to finish the book. So, I kept reading and highlighting. Other references included characters talking "ghetto" and traveling in areas where she was not welcome by her skin color. In the end, I marked over 10 despairing references toward Blacks and Latinos.

This book is horrible. And, someone of us wonders why discrimination still exists. "Leisure" reading like this still perpetuates hate for a good laugh.





Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Clever & Refreshing Fun
Stephanie Plum is a down on her luck, unemployed lingerie buyer, who is forced to take a job as a bond enforcement agent with her cousin's bail bond agency. Her very first assignment is to find a "rogue" cop, who happens to be the same guy that Stephanie lost her virginity to in high school.

What skills Stephanie lacks as a bond enforcement agent, she makes up for with an abundance or wit, charm, and dumb luck. The characters and plot are filled with humor, action, sharp dialogue, and enough sexual chemistry to make this book an impossible to put down page-turner. Overall, a wonderful introduction to an exciting new series! Don't miss out.

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