One for the Money
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- ISBN13: 9780312362089
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a huge attitude and even larger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash–quick–but times are tough, and soon she’s forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family tree.
Stephanie lands a gig at her grubby 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 fantastic 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 practiced gift hunter overnight–and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.
Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so amusing 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 appealing tale 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 tale 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 eccentric (but unrelentingly real) characters join the tale, 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 making Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and amusing first-person narrator offers a winning mix of offensiveness and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery meadow of the 1990s. –Patrick O’Kelley
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I read this book at the behest of a co-worker. She hyped it up as a humorous, quick and simple read.
About 50 pages into the book, I got offended by the main character who was a “white woman invading a black man’s gym.” I marked the page and nonstop 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 stout white men lived in this neighborhood?” I would have stop reading the book then. Sorry to say, I promised my co-worker to end the book. So, I kept reading and highlighting. Additional 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, a name of us wonders why discrimination still exists. “Leisure” reading like this still perpetuates despise for a excellent laugh.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
She is a excellent writer with excellent tale line. The characters are excellent with amusing dialogue. The violence and sometimes off color language are not needed. This was the first book. I had heard excellent review about the series but I was disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have read all twelve of these books and hoping there will be more. The language is pretty graphic but they are so amusing you can usually snub persons words. These books can cause you embaesment, since I read where ever I have to sit and wait and you burst out laughing people do stare and marvel if you are losing it. Please we would all like to see more of these
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have read all twelve of Janet’s books in the Stephanie Plum series and I am absolutely hooked and am waiting for her latest book to be available in January of 2007. I never used to be an avid reader until I ongoing these books. If you want some light reading that keeps you laughing at the antics of some of the characters these books are for you! I like the way Janet makes these characters seem so real.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One For The Money by JE is a excellent book. Sorry to say my copy, agreed to my as a gift for my birthday last year from my brother, was ruined after our basement flooded and it was establish on the floor. The take in was torn off by the force of the water and it’s now sitting outside drying on the bbq. I shall have to get another copy. I establish this book to be a bit hard to get into unlike many additional mysteries I’ve read from Jessica Fletcher to Sue Grafton. My mom and brother thought I might like this book, but it turned out it’s not reasonably as exciting as I thought it might be.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5