Mooner - Stephanie Plum Series

 I decided some time ago that Mooner fell into the pet category. He was like a stray cat that showed up on your doorstep and stayed for a few days and then wandered off. He was amusing in small doses, fairly harmless, and for the most part, housebroken.~ Fearless Fourteen

Joyce Barnhardt - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie's nemesis since they were children. Joyce has always tried to mess things up for Stephanie, even going so far as sleeping with Stephanie's ex-husband. Hence, the reason she divorced him. We see Joyce trying to get her claws into Morelli from time to time, but she never gets anywhere near Ranger in that respect.

Joyce talks Vinnie into giving her a job as a bounty hunter, where for all her ability to push Stephanie's buttons, she is never able to outshine Ms. Plum for too long.

Connie Rosolli - Stephanie Plum Series

As Vinnie's office manager, Connie gives Stephanie her skips to find. She moves the plot along and is often a wealth of information.

Character  Descriptions

From  Two for the Dough
"Connie looked up from her desk that sat like a guardhouse blocking the way to Vinnie's inner office. Her hair had been teased out a good 6-inches, framing her face in a rat's nest of black curls. She was a couple of years older than me, three inches shorter, thirty pounds heavier, and, like me , she'd gone back to her maiden name after a discouraging divorce. In her case, the name as Rosolli, a name given wide berth in the burg since her Uncle Jimmy had been made."

"Vinnie writes the bonds. Connie shuffles paperwork. My sidekick, Lula, files when the mood strikes her." ~ Eleven on Top

"Connie Rosolli is Vinnie's office manager and junk-yard dog. She's a little older than I am. A little smarter. A little tougher. A little more Italian. She's got a lot more chest, and she dresses like Betty Boop." ~ Twelve Sharp

Connie is Vinnie's first line of defense against the stream of pissed-off bondees, bookies, hookers, various bill collectors, and stiffed smut peddlers hoping to reach Vinnie's inner sanctum. Connie was a couple of years older than me, a couple of pounds heavier, a couple of inches shorter, a couple of cups bigger, and her hair was a couple of inches higher than mine. Connie was pretty in a kick-ass, central Jersey, third generation Italian kind of way. ~ Lean Mean Thirteen

 Notable Quotes

Stephaine: "There was a bunch of garbage bags at the curb and Melon-head rolled me into them. We made sort of a mess. And then wehn I finally got him in cuffs, he spit on me!"

"Sounds like a normal day." Connie said. "Hard to believe you're quitting because of Melon-head."

FanFiction

The Ten Trials of  Connie Rosolli
 Connie has to make a deal with Ranger to get out of trouble for what she did in Green Eggs and Busted. Connie story but Babe as well. Rated M for violence and language.

Lula - Stephanie Plum Series

Lula was introduced in the first novel, One for the Money, as a minor character. She becomes more of a major character in Two for the Dough and from there forward. She is a plus size black woman who works as a prostitute with a regular corner on Stark Street. She quits her job as a ho an takes a job at Vincent Plums Bail Bonds as a filing clerk where she becomes more of a sidekick for Stephanie then office personnel.

Character Descriptions 

 "Vinnie writes the bonds. Connie shuffles paperwork. My sidekick, Lula, files when the mood strikes her." ~ Eleven on Top

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight. ~ Explosive Eighteen

Notable Quotes

 “Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin' any.” ~ Sizzlin' Sixteen

 "I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt." ~ High Five
  
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"Hold on," Lula said, pulling a red flowered scarf from her coat pocket, tying the scarf on Harp's foot like a flag. "Don't want to get a ticket. I hear the police are real picky about having things sticking out of your trunk."

(stepanie): Especially dead guys. ~ Three to Get Deadly

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“You read those adult magazines and they’re always talking about sex fantasies, but I say chip fantasies are where it’s at."

"I wouldn’t mind combining them," Grandma said. "Suppose you had some good-looking naked man feeding you the chips."

"No way," Lula said. "I don’t want to be distracted by no man when I’m eating chips. I’d rather have dip. Just get out of my way when I see the chips and dips."

"It’s good you have priorities," Grandma said. ~ Ten Big Ones

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Character Description 

from Eleven on Top:
   ' a size-sixteen black woman squashed into a size-ten leopard print spandex. And the weird thing is, in her own way, Lula looks pretty good in the animal spandex.'

Ranger - Stephanie Plum Series

Hottie Ranger, one of Stephanie's love interests, her sometimes boss and her all the time mentor.

Notable Quotes by Ranger

Ranger to Stephanie:

 “If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.” ~ Eleven on Top

 “Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." ~ Lean Mean Thirteen

“Why do you give me cars?"
"It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?"
"You love me?"
"Yes."
A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?"
"In a very large way," Ranger said. ~ Sizzlin' Sixteen

 “It was M-m-moe and Shorty,” I said. “Damn, I can’t stop shaking.”
“Adrenaline burn-off,” Ranger said. “It’s normal.”
“Why aren’t you sh-sh-shaking?”
“I’m not normal.”

Character Description 

from Eleven on Top:
'an incredibly sexy, incredibly handsome badass'

 'Ranger is the mystery man. He's half a head taller than me, moves like a cat, kicks ass all day long, only wears black, smells warm and sexy, and is 100% pure perfectly toned muscle. He gets his dark complexion and liquid brown eyes from Cuban ancestors. He was Special Forces and about all anyone knows about Ranger.'

from Two for the Dough

 I knew Ranger was beside me because I could see his earring gleaming in the moonlight. Everything about him - his T-shirt, his flack vest, his slick-back hair, and 9-mm Glock - was as black as night. Even his skin tone seemed to darken in shade. Ricardo Carlos Manoso, The Cuban-American chameleon. 

Ranger only wore two colors: army green and bad-ass black. Tonight he was bad-ass black, the monotony broken only by double-stud earrings.

Dickie Orr - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie's ex-husband. She fell for him because she liked his car.

Stephanie Plum - Stephanie Plum Series

Main character in a series of crime solving, chicklit comedy.

Notable Quotes

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment. ~ Two for the Dough

Joseph Morelli

One of Stephanie's love interests.

Character Desciption

from Two for the Dough

Morelli was vice... Vice did a lot of work DEA and Customs and kept pretty closemouthed about their projects.

As a teenager Morelli was feral. Two years in the navy and twelve more on the police force had taught him control, but I was convinced nothing short of removing his gonads would ever completely domesticate him. There was always a barbarous part of Morelli that hummed beneath the surface. I found myself helplessly sucked in by it, and at the same time it scared the hell out of me.

from Eleven on Top:
  'He was wearing jeans and scuffed boots and a black V-neck sweater over a black T-shirt. Morelli is six feet of lean, hard muscle and hot Italian libido. He's Jersey smart, and he's not a man you'd want to annoy... unless you're me. I've been annoying Morelli all my life.'

Vincent Plum - Stephanie Plum Series

Vinnie is Stephanie's cousin and boss.

Character Descriptions from the Books: 

 "Vinnie writes the bonds. Connie shuffles paperwork. My sidekick, Lula, files when the mood strikes her." ~ Eleven on Top

Vinnie was my rodent cousin. Good bail bondsman. Scary human being. Slicked-back hair, face like a ferret, dressed like Tony Soprano, had a body like Pee-wee Herman. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Notable Quotes

"Someone's trying to kill Lula," Connie said.
Vinnie put his hand to his heart. "That's a relief. I thought they were after me." ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Grandma Mazur - Stephanie Plum Series

Grandma Mazur is Stephanie's moms side of the family.

Notable Quotes

 “Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!!”

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After seeing Ranger in the nude:

"Amazing," Grandma said, eyes wide, staring in unblinking stupefaction. I yanked Grandma out and closed the bathroom door.

"It was mezmerizing," Grandma said. "It was like staring into the eye of a cobra. I don't care if I do anything else on the bucket list. This was awesome. It was like a biblical experience." ~ Top Secret Twenty-One

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"I bet a big strapping young guy like you has a lot of special talents," Grandma said to Milton.

"I can make French toast,"Milton said. "And I can whistle."

"Isn't that something," Grandma said. "Whistling's a lost art. You don't find many whistlers anymore." ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Character Desription

from  Two for the Dough

... now that Grandpa Mazur was scarfing down his normal two-eggs-and-a-half-pound-of-bacon breakfast in the hereafter.

Grandma Mazur was seventy-two and didn't look a day over ninety. I loved her dearly, but when you got her down to her skivvies, she resembled a soup chicken.

Rex, the Hamster - Stephanie Plum Series

Rex, the hamster is the closest thing Stephanie has to a confidant. He is there when she need to talk and he listens so well! She really loves him and never fails to save him from the mayhem that often happens in her apartment.

Character Descriptions

From  Two for the Dough
Rex was running in his wheel when I got home. I switched the light on, and he stopped dead in his tracks. black eyes wide, whiskers twitching in indignation that night has suddenly disappeared.

From Eleven on Top :
   'Rex is pretty much nocturnal so were sort of like ships passing in the night. As an extra treat, once in a while I drop a Cheez Doodle into his cage and he emerges from his soup can home to retrieve the Doodle. That's about as complicated as our relationship gets.'

Tricky Twenty-Two - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum faces her toughest case yet, as the blockbuster series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich continues, in Tricky Twenty-Two!

Top Secret Twenty-One - Stephanie Plum Series

Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret.

Takedown Twenty - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out.

Notorious Nineteen - Stephanie Plum Series

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don’t just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do.

Explosive Eighteen - Stephanie Plum Series

Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead—and a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the FBI, are all looking for a photograph he was supposed to be carrying.

Smokin' Seventeen - Stephanie Plum Series

With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie’s life looks like it’s about to go up in smoke.

Sizzling Sixteen - Stephanie Plum Series

Vinnie kidnapped and is being held for ransom in the high six figures - something the bonds office does not have. As Stephanie, sidekick Lula, and office manager Connie soon realize, Vincent Plum Bail Bonds is seriously in the red due to Vinnie's gambling.

Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Stephanie Plum Series

BBQ contest that was to be headlined by a decapitated chef, and which Lula and Grandma Mazur decide, in spite of their lack of culinary skills, to enter.
Rangeman clients have been subject to a number of break-ins, and Ranger asks Stephanie to help.
Stephanie solves Rangeman's problem, but ends up smeared with multicolored pigments in the process. There is damage to at least 4 vehicles, two of them Ranger's.
Stephanie and Morelli are off again but reconcile.

Fearless Fourteen - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum apprehends Loretta Rizzi for failure to appear in court, but Loretta, who is a distant cousin of Stephanie's policeman boyfriend, Joe Morelli, agrees to go along only if Stephanie will take care of her son, Mario. Unfortunately, Loretta has no collateral and no relatives willing to sign for her, so she doesn't get bonded out.

There's money from a heist buried in Morelli's house? And the guy looking for it is a stone cold killer. Stephanie has to find the guy while keeping Mario safe and Mooner entertained.

Lean Mean Thirteen - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum is reunited yet again with her lawyer ex-husband, Dickie Orr, while doing a favor for Ranger. When Dickie is later discovered missing from his apartment under some rather violent circumstances, Stephanie becomes the prime suspect in his apparent murder.

Twelve Sharp - Stephanie Plum Series

The novel begins with Stephanie being stalked by Carmen Manoso, a woman claiming to be the wife of Ranger, a fellow bounty hunter with whom Stephanie has occasionally been intimate. Ranger is out of town on 'bad business' when Stephanie learns that his daughter has been kidnapped. Ranger is the prime suspect.

Eleven on Top - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum has had enough. Enough of bounty hunting, enough of being constantly shot at, and enough of having her cars blown up on a semi-regular basis.
So, she retires.

Character Descriptions

 on Ranger:
  'an incredibly sexy, incredibly handsome badass'

 'Ranger is the mystery man. He's half a head taller than me, moves like a cat, kicks ass all day long, only wears black, smells warm and sexy, and is 100% pure perfectly toned muscle. He gets his dark complexion and liquid brown eyes from Cuban ancestors. He was Special Forces and about all anyone knows about Ranger.'

on Lula:
  ' a size-sixteen black woman squashed into a size-ten leopard print spandex. And the weird thing is, in her own way, Lula looks pretty good in the animal spandex.' 

on Rex:
  'Rex is pretty much nocturnal so were sort of like ships passing in the night. As an extra treat, once in a while I drop a Cheez Doodle into his cage and he emerges from his soup can home to retrieve the Doodle. That's about as complicated as our relationship gets.'

on Morelli:
 'He was wearing jeans and scuffed boots and a black V-neck sweater over a black T-shirt. Morelli is six feet of lean, hard muscle and hot Italian libido. He's Jersey smart, and he's not a man you'd want to annoy... unless you're me. I've been annoying Morelli all my life.'

Ten Big Ones - Stephanie Plum Series

Ranger acting more mysterious than ever (and the tension with vice cop Joe Morelli getting hotter), Stephanie finds herself with a decision to make: how to protect herself and where to hide while on the hunt for a killer known as Junkman. There's only one safe place, and it has Ranger's name all over it, if she can find it... and if Junkman doesn't find her first.

To the Nines - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie Plum, bounty-hunter. She's got all the normal concerns in life: the rent, her family, men; yet all of her concerns are topped by the minor fact that someone is usually trying to kill her.

Hard Eight - Stephanie Plum Series

Hard Eight revolves around a child custody bond, rather than a criminal bond, as a main plot, and marks the (sometimes repeated) departure of the series from Stephanie chasing bad guys to Stephanie being stalked. Books nine through 12 all revolve around Stephanie having a stalker. This is a radical departure from the previous seven books.

Seven Up - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie's made a reluctant deal with the devil: if she can't bring in DeChooch by herself, her sexy but dangerous cohort Ranger is willing to help--for a price that a girl who's not-exactly-engaged is uncertain whether she should pay. But when Dougie and Mooner disappear, Grandma is kidnapped, and a crazy widow starts taking pot shots, no one who hides her .38 in a cookie jar is going to turn down a little friendly assistance.

Hot Six - Stephanie Plum Series

Stephanie must chase down Ranger, while being followed by two hit men (and getting four cars destroyed in the process). Stephanie's eccentric Grandma Mazur has moved in, as well, and to top it all off, Plum has to deal with a stoner named Mooner.

High Five - Stephanie Plum Series

Business is slow for Stephanie Plum, so when her Uncle Fred goes missing, Stephanie agrees to help look for him. Soon enough, Stephanie realizes that (once again) she's in over her head, and up to her neck in unanswered questions. Stephanie for the first time takes a job with Ranger at his company to make ends meet.

Four to Score - Stephanie Plum Series

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Stephanie Plum is back and she wants revenge, and this time she's on the trail of Maxine Nowicki, an ex-waitress accused of stealing her ex-boyfriend's car. Helping Stephanie is former-prostitute-turned-backup Lula, puzzle solving transvestite singer Sally Sweet, mentor Ranger, and vice cop Joe Morelli. Oh, and she can't forget the little matter of someone trying to kill her. Again.

Stephanie & Morelli resume their intimate relationship.

Three to Get Deadly - Stephanie Plum Series

When a kind old candy store owner goes failure to appear after being arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is sent out to haul him back to jail.

Two for the Dough -Stephanie Plum Series

In Two for the Dough, Stephanie Plum is still an inexperienced bounty hunter, so her boss and cousin Vinnie gives her an easy case: apprehend local boy Kenny Mancuso, accused of shooting his best friend in the knee and then jumping bail. Because Kenny is the black sheep cousin of vice cop Joe Morelli, Morelli is on Kenny's trail as well.

Notable Quotes

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment. ~ Two for the Dough

Character Descriptions

On  Richardo Carlos Manoso; Ranger

 I knew Ranger was beside me because I could see his earring gleaming in the moonlight. Everything about him - his T-shirt, his flack vest, his slick-back hair, and 9-mm Glock - was as black as night. Even his skin tone seemed to darken in shade. Ricardo Carlos Manoso, The Cuban-American chameleon. 

Ranger only wore two colors: army green and bad-ass black. Tonight he was bad-ass black, the monotony broken only by double-stud earrings.

On Grandma Mazur

... now that Grandpa Mazur was scarfing down his normal two-eggs-and-a-half-pound-of-bacon breakfast in the hereafter.

Grandma Mazur was seventy-two and didn't look a day over ninety. I loved her dearly, but when you got her down to her skivvies, she resembled a soup chicken.

 On Connie Rosolli

Connie looked up from her desk that sat like a guardhouse blocking the way to Vinnie's inner office. Her hair had been teased out a good 6-inches, framing her face in a rat's nest of black curls. She was a couple of years older than me, three inches shorter, thirty pounds heavier, and, like me , she'd gone back to her maiden name after a discouraging divorce. In her case, the name as Rosolli, a name given wide berth in the burg since her Uncle Jimmy had been made.

On  Joe Morelli

Morelli was vice... Vice did a lot of work DEA and Customs and kept pretty closemouthed about their projects.

As a teenager Morelli was feral. Two years in the navy and twelve more on the police force had taught him control, but I was convinced nothing short of removing his gonads would ever completely domesticate him. There was always a barbarous part of Morelli that hummed beneath the surface. I found myself helplessly sucked in by it, and at the same time it scared the hell out of me.

On  Rex, the hamster

Rex was running in his wheel when I got home. I switched the light on, and he stopped dead in his tracks. black eyes wide, whiskers twitching in indignation that night has suddenly disappeared.

One for the Money - Stephanie Plum Series

One for the Money is the initial novel that introduces us to Stephanie Plum as a desperate out-of-work young woman from Trenton, NJ, who just wants to keep her car from getting repossessed. The author, Janet Evanovich, starts off the series at the edge of Stephanie's life changing event and what ride we have for the next 22 books!

 

 

List of Characters in One for the Money

• Stephanie Plum
• Rex, the hamster
• Joe Morelli
• Lula
• Richardo Carlos Manoso; Ranger
• Grandma Mazur
• Mrs. Plum & Mr Plum
• Vinnie; boss and cousin
• Connie Rosolli 
• Eddie Gazarra
• Jackie
• Sal
• Bernie
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