You’ve lost your task as a department store lingerie buyer, your car’s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have already been offered off to pay out last month’s rent. Now the rent arrives again. And your home is in NJ. What do you do? If you’re Stephanie Plum, you feel a bounty hunter. However, not only a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter, you go after the big money. Which means a cop eliminated bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced previous vice cop who’s also the person who took Stephanie’s virginity at age 16 and wrote information on a bathroom wall structure. With satisfaction and rent cash on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her 1st case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries – people who’d rather destroy than lose. The New York Times Book Review calls Stephanie Plum ‘a Jersey young lady with Bette Middler’s mouth and Cher’s fashion sense.’ In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has generated a resourceful and humorous character who is distinguishable in the pack of gritty feminine detectives.