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First Published:
Jun 1998, 294 pages
Paperback:
May 1999, 338 pages
Bounty-hunting Jersey girl Stephanie Plum is hot on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Aided by a plethora of eccentric characters, including a funeral aficionado, an ex-hooker, and a transvestite rock musician, Steph's humor and attitude never waver--even when her apartment is fire-bombed!.
CHAPTER ONE
Living in Trenton in July is like living inside a big pizza oven. Hot, airless,
aromatic.
Because I didn't want to miss any of the summer experience I had the sun roof open on
my Honda CRX. My brown hair was pulled up into a wind snarled, curls-gone-to-frizz
ponytail. The sun baked the top of my head, and sweat trickled under my black spandex
sports bra. I was wearing matching spandex shorts and a sleeveless oversized Trenton
Thunders baseball jersey. It was an excellent outfit except it gave me no place to stick
my .38. Which meant I was going to have to borrow a gun to shoot my cousin, Vinnie.
I parked the CRX in front of Vinnie's store front bail bonds office, lunged out of the
car, stalked across the sidewalk, and yanked the office door open. "Where is he?
Where is that miserable little excuse for a human being?" "Uh oh," Lula
said from behind the file cabinet. &...
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