plum, stephanie (fictitious character)

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of sexy vice cop Joe Morelli, when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.

Hoping to discontinue her career as a bounty hunter for something safer, Stephanie Plum is inadvertently drawn into a case that is complicated by her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her penchant for wrecking cars.

"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. ... Stephanie can't shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college--and it's not just Zeta fraternity pranks. As much as people love Gobbles, they hate Doug Linken. When Linken is gunned down in his backyard it's good riddance, and the list of possible murder suspects is long. The only people who care about finding Linken's killer are Trenton cop Joe Morelli, who has been assigned the case, security expert Ranger, who was hired to protect Linken, and Stephanie, who has her eye on a cash prize and hopefully has some tricks up her sleeve"--Provided by publisher.

"Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in"--Provided by OCLC.

When a man sitting next to Stephanie Plum on a flight turns up dead on a layover, she finds herself trying to solve the case before she is killed over a photo that psychos, thugs, and the FBI are all looking for.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets a bad feeling about Uncle Fred's disappearance when her aunt finds a set of pictures in his desk that show what looks a lot like a dead body stuffed in a garbage bag, and her problems are complicated by the attentions of two nearly irresistable men.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself up against her archenemy and rival bail bondsman Joyce Barnhardt when she attempts to bring in a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for bail jumping, theft, and extortion, but things really heat up when circumstances force Stephanie to move in with former and sometimes lover, Joe Morelli.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's seemingly simple new assignment to bring in a senior citizen charged with smuggling cigarettes is complicated by a murder and two proposals.