Stephanie Plum is a New Jersey girl (woman
really) who is out of work, out of luck, and running out of furniture to sell
to pay the rent, buy food and keep up payments on the car.
Desperation drives her to her cousin Vinnie’s
office initially for a filing job, but instead she seizes the opportunity of a
week’s trial as a ‘recovery agent’, chasing down and bringing in those who have
skipped bail. She’s seduced by the 10% commission; however what seems like easy
money turns out to be anything but.
There’s big money on the head of Joseph
Morelli. He’s a cop wanted for murder, with whom she has had a couple of brief,
well-spaced but memorable encounters. Her pursuit of him provides a steep learning
curve as a bounty hunter and leads her into situations embarrassing, painful,
terrifying and eventually deadly.
As befits her New Jersey persona, Stephanie
narrates it all with great self-deprecating wit and humour that moves the story
along at a fast pace. It either got better or I took time to get into it, but
either way by the end I was, by turns, laughing, wincing or worrying for her.
Evanovitch is now up to number 21 in the
Stephanie Plum series so it must be a winning formula, but this is the first one,
that set it all off, and understandably so.
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