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Title: Great debut novel
Review: Stephanie Plum is one of the most down-to-earth, funny, and gutsy heroines to come around in a long time. When she gets laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer, she goes to her cousin Vinnie in desperation. She is expecting to get a filing job, but instead she becomes a "bounty hunter", bringing in crooks who have failed to appear for a hearing date. It sounds like easy money, until she actually tries to jockey some of these brutes into her car to take them to the police. They resist in every way possible and Stephanie does some fast, on-the-job training. Her first case is a former lover of hers who has committed a murder, with some debate as to whether it was self-defense. She pursues him while being pursued by a violent, sadistic boxer who threatens great bodily harm to her. This story is told in a breezy, tongue-in-cheek manner which is very appealing and causes it to be a page-turner.
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