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Stephanie Plum is trying to ease into her new job with a level head. It appears Joe Morelli is around for good--and bad--and she's resigned to it. Her loose professional relationship with Ranger ends in a platonic night together with no strings attached, and her new set of wheels, a secondhand... read more

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Here, she's back, packing a whole lot of attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, and a .38 Smith & Wesson. This time around, she's on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working-class burg of Trenton, New Jersey, who has just shot his best friend. Fresh out of the Army... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Here, she's back, packing a whole lot of attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, and a .38 Smith & Wesson. This time around, she's on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working-class burg of Trenton, New Jersey, who has just shot his best friend. Fresh out of the Army and suspiciously wealthy, Mancuso's also distantly related to Joe Morelli, a vice cop with questionable ethics, a libido in permanent overdrive, and a habit of honing in on Stephanie's investigations. Aided by her tough bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and her funeral-happy Grandma Mazur, Stephanie's soon staggering knee-deep in corpses, trying to shake Morelli and stirring up a very nasty enemy.

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  • “You've got the temperament of a pit bull with a soup bone when you're on a case.”
    Joe Morelli
  • “I was convinced nothing short of removing his gonads would ever completely domesticate him.”
    Stephanie Plum
  • “The legality of this was a tad grey, but it would only be bothersome if I got caught.”
  • “Got the name Sandman on account of it you irritate him he'll put you to sleep for a real long time.”
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  • The way I see it is, we’re so far behind we’re actually ahead of the rest of the country. We never had to go through any of that messy readjustment with roles stuff. You are who you want to be in the burg. It’s never been men against women. In the burg it’s always been weak against strong.
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  • I figured if you had to breathe New Jersey air there wasn’t much point in getting carried away with always eating healthy food.
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First Sentence edit see section history

I knew Ranger was beside me because I could see his earring gleaming in the moonlight.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter 1-15

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 20 in Stephanie Plum by the Numbers. (standard series)

Preceded by One for the Money, and followed by Three to Get Deadly.

This is book 59 of 145 in Whitcoulls Top 100 (2011). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Janet Evanovich (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Carlos Beltran (Designer) - Cover Designer of Pocket Books Edition

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 10, 1996
ISBN: 0-684-19638-7
Page Count: 304

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3555.V2126 T96 1996
  • Dewey: 813.54

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  • One for the Money

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