Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich Audio Books CD
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It's Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel One for the Money.
Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38. Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton's burg. He's fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he's just shot his best friend.
With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers knee deep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.
And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie's irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a
neighbourhood wake. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. Much to the family's chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights.
Fast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the womanwho puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli's not one to object.
Low on expertise but learning fast, high on resilience, and despite the help she gets from friends and relatives, Stephanie eventually must face the danger alone when embalmed body parts begin to arrive on her doorstep and she's targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome adversary she's ever encountered. Another case like this and she'll be a real pro.
About the Author Janet Evanovich:
Janet Evanovich is an author born in South River, New Jersey.
She is best known as the creator of the character Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who loses her job and becomes a bounty hunter to fill her fridge.
Biography
After studying at Douglas College in New Jersey, Janet Evanovich decided to go into writing. Sending many manuscripts to several editors, she received as many refusals back.
Returning to be a secretary she received a call by an editor interested in Second Chance at Love, a romance novel today forgotten by all. After twelve books of the same kind, she took a new approach and launched into detective novels.
She builds Stephanie Plum with a well rhythmed style, strong characters as the funny Grandma Mazur. These adventures have been very successful.
Bibliography
Single Romance Novels - (originally written under the name Steffie Hall)
* Hero at Large (1987)
* Foul Play (1989)
* The Grand Finale (1988)
* Thanksgiving (1988)
* Manhunt (1988)
* Ivan Takes a Wife (1988) = Love Overboard (2005)
* Naughty Neighbor (1992)
Elsie Hawkins Series
* Back to the Bedroom (1989)
* Smitten (1990)
* Wife for Hire (1990)
* Rocky Road to Romance (1991)
Stephanie Plum Series
* One For the Money (1994)
* Two For the Dough (1996)
* Three to Get Deadly (1997)
* Four to Score (1998)
* High Five (1999)
* Hot Six (2000)
* Seven Up (2001)
* Hard Eight (2002)
* Visions of Sugar Plums (2003)
* To the Nines (2003)
* Ten Big Ones (2004)
* Eleven on Top (2005)
* Twelve Sharp (2006)
* Plum Lovin' (2007)
* Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
* Plum Lucky(Holiday Novella)(January 8, 2008)
* Fearless Fourteen (June 17, 2008)
* The Last Peep (A Stephanie Plum Short story included in Mary Higgins Clark presents The Plot Thickens) (1997)
The Barnaby Series
* Metro Girl (2005)
* Motor Mouth (2006)
Full Series with "Charlotte Hughes"
* Full House (1989) (Originally as Steffie Hall, Re-released in expanded form in 2002)
* Full Tilt (2003)
* Full Speed (2003)
* Full Blast (2004)
* Full Bloom (2005)
* Full Scoop (2006)
Hot Series with "Leanne Banks"
* Hot Stuff (2007)
Non-fiction
* How I Write (2006)
About the Character Stephanie Plum:
Stephanie Plum is the protagonist in a series of novels written by Janet Evanovich. She is an apprehension agent or bounty hunter, working for her cousin Vinnie Plum, owner of the "Plum Bonding Agency".
Other characters of the series include: Plum's filing clerk, Lula, who is a retired hooker; her on-and-off boyfriend, bad-boy policeman Joseph Morelli; and fellow bounty hunter Ranger. Her relationship with the latter, somewhere between boyfriend/girlfriend and teacher/pupil, provides much of her day-to-day stress.
Plum lives alone in an apartment block predominantly inhabited by the elderly. However, she often ventures to her parents' house for meals and "family time", source for more stress; her unwilling-to-age-gracefully grandmother is particularly unhelpful.
She has so far appeared in many full-length novels and one short special.
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