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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, No. 1)
written by Janet Evanovich
Studio : Scribner
by Scribner
Publisher : Scribner
Released : 2004-09-29
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780743267717
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 533 reviews)
List Price : $26.00
Our Price : $14.99
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THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL... Witty, fresh, and full of surprises, One for the Money catapulted Janet Evanovich and her incomparable heroine Stephanie Plum into crime-writing superstardom. Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. She's from the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton, New Jersey, where cars are American, windows are clean, and dinner is served at six. No exceptions. Stephanie lives five miles from her parents, trying to sever the world's longest umbilical cord. Mom is a meddler, and eccentric Grandma Mazur is a few cans short of a case. Out of work, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an "agent." She knows zilch about the job, but she figures her new pal, fearless bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her whatever it takes. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former cop on the run from a murder charge. He's also the irresistible jerk who took Stephanie's virginity and wrote the details on the bathroom wall of Mario's Sub Shop...and there's still powerful chemistry between the two. But chasing Joe could prove very dangerous -- while on the case, she encounters Benito Ramirez, a heavyweight boxer known for his brutality to women. His terrifying obsession with Stephanie complicates her manhunt, and it just might lead to murder. Meet Stephanie Plum in this thrilling, laugh-out-loud outing that made Janet Evanovich a household name. |
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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 |
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Being a male, I am sure that I am not a member of Janet Evanovich's target audience. After reading her book titled How I Write I became curious about her fiction and gave this one a try. Reading this book was a great joy. Stephanie Plum is a lovable character who is down on her luck financially. She cons her uncle into letting her work in his bail bond office as a bounty hunter. Evanovich pulls no punches on Stephanie as she enters this tough world. The novel realistically presents the challenges faced by a woman in this brutal line of work. While things are not too easy for Stephanie, she takes it all in stride and displays a sense of humor that makes the story all the more enjoyable. There are romantic elements as well, since the person she is after for skipping out on his bail was someone that had seduced her when she was younger and then left for the military. If you enjoy action-adventure mysteries that are sprinkled with romantic tension, give this one a try. And if you are a guy, don't let the pastel colors on the cover turn you away. That being said, if Janet re-marketed her books with a little more hard-boiled packaging she may reach a whole new audience. |
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No wonder people love this girl |
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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. |
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Where it started: |
Book 1 of course shows how it all began. How Stephanie comes to be a bounty hunter. And of course the 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. |
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fun, fun, fun |
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This was my 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. |
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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 black 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.
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