One for the Money

Stephanie Plum is a down-on-her-luck Jersey girl who decides that becoming a bounty hunter is preferable to getting evicted. And she decides to learn how to bounty hunt by going after the top prize first - a cop on the lam who's been accused of murder.

This was a lot of fun to read! Quickly paced, with a lot of humour, and Stephanie's a nice, refreshing break from the world-weary, misanthropic sort of characters I usually encounter when reading this type of book.

The one thing I didn't like about the book was Joe Morelli, the cop that Stephanie is hunting down/falling in love with. And when I say “didn't like”, I mean I wanted a piano dropped on his smarmy, good-looking head.