Thursday, February 9, 2012

One For the Money by Janey Evanovich

New York Times Best Selling author Janet Evanovich is making a splash on the big screen with her much loved Stephanie Plum series. One for the Money is the beginning of a fantastic series filled with humor and thrills. The eighteenth book in this fun-filled series hit stores recently and more books are expected.

If you haven't had the chance to read the Plum series yet then now is the time.

What is One For the Money about? 

Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family.

Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the time he first looked up her dress to the time he first got into her pants to the time Steph hit him with her father's Buick, M-o-r-e-l-l-i has spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. And now the hot guy is in hot water--wanted for murder.

Abject poverty is a great motivator for learning new skills, but being trained in the school of hard knocks by people like psycho prizefighter Benito Ramirez isn't. Still, if Stephanie can nab Morelli in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight--and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.

Stephanie Plum Series (in reading order)

•    One for the Money
•    Two for the Dough
•    Three to Get Deadly
•    Four to Score
•    High Five
•    Hot Six
•    Seven Up
•    Hard Eight
•    To the Nines
•    Ten Big Ones
•    Eleven on Top
•    Twelve Sharp
•    Lean Mean Thirteen
•    Fearless Fourteen
•    Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
•    Sizzling Sixteen
•    Smokin’ Seventeen
•    Explosive Eighteen


Take a look at the movie trailer below. Enjoy!