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One for the Money

Name: One for the Money
Rating: 4.05 (577310 reviews)
Author: Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich August 26, 1994

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With over 235,000 five-star ratings, this “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” series starter (USA Today) introduces feisty out-of-work bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who takes a job as an apprehension agent and winds up getting assigned to track down and arrest her former flame, an ex-cop charged with murder.

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