One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743518381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 593 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Full of Shenanigans Lazy Review Time - since this came out forever ago and there are a bazillion reviewsThis series has 20+ books in it. I can see what it has been so popular over the years. It is just a good time wrapped up in a ball and transported to the 90s. A time when New Jersey was known for garbage and hydrocarbons and people still had answering machines and no cell phones….YES we used to live like that.Stephanie Plum is a fun character and this was a pretty good introductory book with funny shenanigans as she tries to figure out how to be a bounty hunter. She makes some pretty big mistakes that lead to a little bit of hilarity along the way. She. Great fun Dr. Lee D. Carlson With fast scene changes and a main character that is both frivolous and fun, this book is a good one for pure enjoyment, for just kicking back and going with the flow. Stephanie Plum makes decisions on the fly, with not much concentrated intellectual effort, but that suits the environment and job function she finds herself in. She is a Jersey chick that finds that she must sometimes do things that are totally out of character and in steep contrast with her upbringing. Her breaking of tradition, her negation of her past regimentation, makes this story fascinating and worth the time for its perusal.Adapting to frightening situations with somet. Fun, Witty, Sassy, Hard to Put Down This book was so much fun to read. This was my first Janet Evanovich novel so I figured I would start with the first in the series of Stephanie Plum. Evanovich is so witty and keeps the pace moving. Plum is different than any other detective (actually a bounty hunter). She is feisty, sassy, fearless and makes a million mistakes in a funny way that makes her so much more human. I was constantly chuckling at her comments and almost blushing at her predicaments and how she dealt with them. This was just a hilarious book. Fiction is all about putting reality on hold and just enjoying a good story and Evanovich is masterful at doing just that. St
Stephanie needs cash-fast-but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: familyONE FALSE MOVEStephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. And now the hot guy is in hot water-wanted for murderONE FOR THE MONEYAbject 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. But that doesn't matter. ONE FINE MESSWelcome 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). All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight-and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man. As does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop J
Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. --Patrick O'Kelley. 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. 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. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) character