![]() In her first of many failed attempts to seize Joe Morelli, Stephanie tails his cousin to the fugitive’s hiding place. Now in her thirties, Stephanie is still looking to settle the score. When Stephanie was nineteen, she saw him on a sidewalk and jumped the curb in her father’s Buick to run him down. When Stephanie was sixteen, he seduced her, penned some commentary about it on a public restroom wall, and then moved on. ![]() Stephanie and Joe grew up in the same neighborhood, and handsome, bad boy Joe had a reputation as a heartbreaker. ![]() She is not just out for the money she is also out for revenge. If Stephanie can snag Morelli within one week, she will receive $10,000. What could go wrong? Stephanie’s first big assignment as an “apprehension agent” is to catch Trenton police officer Joe Morelli, who, charged with murder, skipped his court date. Stephanie most recently worked as a lingerie buyer she has never shot a gun, but the big bucks a bounty hunter makes are too enticing. ![]() He runs a bail bond operation that caters to the criminal elements of Trenton, New Jersey, and he is short a bounty hunter. Desperate to find employment before she is out of furniture to hawk, too, Stefanie resorts to working for her dodgy cousin Vinnie. Stephanie Plum, the narrator of Janet Evanovich’s 1994 mystery, One For The Money, is fresh out of a marriage, out of a job, and out of luck. ![]()
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