When Stephanie arrives for Sunday dinner with a new gun, Grandma Mazur is so thrilled to hold it, she inadvertently shoots the chicken dinner on the table. Eccentric, feisty, and partial to wearing spandex bike shorts, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur thinks her granddaughter’s new job is exciting and glamorous. Stephanie’s parents and grandmother live just a few blocks from her apartment, and she joins them for weekly dinners. Sanchez, a prostitute who associated with Kuleska, has not been seen since he died, but Morelli insists there was another witness in the apartment. However, no weapon beyond Morelli’s was found in the apartment of Carmen Sanchez, where the shooting occurred.
While there is no question that Morelli shot a man named Ziggy Kuleska, Morelli claims Kuleska was armed and he, Morelli, acted in self-defense.
After he outfits Stephanie with a revolver and shows her the ropes of bond enforcement, he briefs her on Morelli’s case. He dresses in black and, like Morelli, has an irresistible smile. Ricardo Carlos “Ranger” Manoso runs his own security company but does high-risk apprehensions for Vinnie. Defeated, Stephanie returns to Vinnie’s office, and his secretary arranges for Vinnie’s superstar bounty hunter, “Ranger,” to school her in the job’s basic skills. When she confronts Morelli, demanding he surrender, even though she has no way to compel his cooperation, he simply laughs at her. In her first of many failed attempts to seize Joe Morelli, Stephanie tails his cousin to the fugitive’s hiding place. Now in her thirties, Stephanie is still looking to settle the score. When Stephanie was nineteen, she saw him on a sidewalk and jumped the curb in her father’s Buick to run him down. When Stephanie was sixteen, he seduced her, penned some commentary about it on a public restroom wall, and then moved on. Stephanie and Joe grew up in the same neighborhood, and handsome, bad boy Joe had a reputation as a heartbreaker.
She is not just out for the money she is also out for revenge. If Stephanie can snag Morelli within one week, she will receive $10,000. What could go wrong? Stephanie’s first big assignment as an “apprehension agent” is to catch Trenton police officer Joe Morelli, who, charged with murder, skipped his court date. Stephanie most recently worked as a lingerie buyer she has never shot a gun, but the big bucks a bounty hunter makes are too enticing. He runs a bail bond operation that caters to the criminal elements of Trenton, New Jersey, and he is short a bounty hunter. Desperate to find employment before she is out of furniture to hawk, too, Stefanie resorts to working for her dodgy cousin Vinnie. Stephanie Plum, the narrator of Janet Evanovich’s 1994 mystery, One For The Money, is fresh out of a marriage, out of a job, and out of luck.
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