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  =-Novel Reviews-- = ===__One for the Money__: This book was unlike anything I've read before, and to my surprise I loved it! If someone had told me about the basis of this book before hand, (Lingerie buyer loses her job and becomes a bounty hunter?) I would have laughed and never put a second thought into reading it. However, this book is like nothing I'd expected. The main character, Stephanie Plum's job as a bounty hunter requires her to track down and return criminals who have missed their court hearings. __One for the Money__, follows Stephanie on her chase after one of her own childhood "friends", Joe Morelli, a bail jumper accused of shooting an unarmed man. While on her hunt for Morelli, Stephanie faces obstacles such as poverty, car bombings, and witness disappearences, all while she is being stalked by a champion wrestler/rapist. Not only is this book a suspenseful and interesting read, it is also a book that literally makes you laugh out loud. __One for the Money__ left me wanting more, and now I cant wait to read the rest of the series. === 

**__Two for the Dough__:**
This book is the second book following the life of Stephanie Plum. This time around, she is going after Joe Morelli’s cousin, Kenny Mancuso, who is accused of shooting and killing his best friend. Stephanie actually finds herself face-to-face with Kenny multiple times, but always seems to be one step behind and unable to take him into custody. She takes advantage of certain connections, the same as in this book’s prequel (Ranger, Morelli, Connie, etc…), but also gets an unlikely side-kick, her grandmother. Grandma Mazur may be small and frail, but she isn’t afraid to get the job done, whether that means shooting at the bad guys, making sandwiches for a stakeout, or making sure the body in the casket is real and dead. I enjoyed this book, although I thought the first one (One for the Money) was slightly better.