Having read my way through all of the Meg Langslow Mystery series, I set out looking for my next coz mystery series. I had some criteria that I thought would help narrow the field such as any series had to be at least five books long. Finished series and series with puny titles would also receive an extra glance. The Stephanie Plum series, I must admit, was not the first series I selected, it was actually the third. The others however fell by the wayside with unlikeable characters and horrid writing. 
The Stephanie Plum series follows one Stephanie Plum as she tries to survive and make rent in Trenton. But after a messy divorce and losing her job as a lingerie buyer, the ends are not meeting. She tries to stretch things along, selling off appliances as needed but eventually she is forced to blackmail her cousin Vinnie into giving her a job. Unfortunately for her it is not the desk job she was hoping for, instead it's bounty hunting. While the job isn't what she wanted, with the all of the shooting and such, she tries to make it work. Except she is likely the worst bounty hunter in the world. Not only does she frequently lose the people she is trying to capture, but they also tend to humiliate her in the process. She also has a tendency to have her car blown up and to find dead people. Though some how it all works out in the end. All in all this makes for a funny and quick read. The series is a little on the morbid, or dark side for my definition of a cozy mystery, but is still worth reading. Though like all of these series, you have to wonder when the police are just going to lock up the protagonist, for the safety of everyone else.
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