![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is a lot of Stephanie bumbling around as she learns how to do her job, using her community connections and checking in with her reluctantly close-knit family. She needs a job, she needs it quickly, and her best option is working for her objectionable cousin, a bail bondsman. Whether it was the fact that the hapless Stephanie’s trials kept accumulating faster than mine, or that her first-person narration of them was so dryly funny, I was drawn in quickly. But I really needed a book and the beginning of Stephanie Plum’s misadventures were a hilarious fulfillment of my request. ![]() The books had been around for a while (25 years in 2019!) and the numbered title thing seemed like a gimmick copying Grafton, who was at least limited by the English alphabet (little did we know…). To be honest, initially I had avoided the series. My friends came through with a few ideas, one of which was One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. “I need something enjoyable that I don’t have to think about very hard.” What do you do? If you’re Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter.Ībout a decade ago I had been going through a really rough patch and I asked the Reference librarians for suggestions for books I could read. From the publisher: You’ve lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car’s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month’s rent. ![]()
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