Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude -- not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38. Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton's burg. He's fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he's just shot his best friend.
With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers knee deep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.
And nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie's irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. Much to the family's chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights.
Fast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the woman who puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli's not one to object.
Low on expertise but learning fast, high on resilience, and despite the help she gets from friends and relatives, Stephanie eventually must face the danger alone when embalmed body parts begin to arrive on her doorstep and she's targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome adversary she's ever encountered. Another case like this and she'll be a real pro.
I absolutly loved this!! I liked the fact that the story begins right where "one for the money" left off, b/c although you arent really left hanging at the end of One for the $$ you still have a longing to see what happens next in Stephanie's action packed life... I listened to this audio cd on a long car ride and it really made the trip go quickly as i was on the edge of my seat the whole time! First of all, i would like to say hats off to the woman who read the book!!! She "played" the part of stephanie (and all the other characters) very well and sounded just as i would imagine her... And, being that i am a new jersey native (lived there pretty much my whole life) i think she captured the "true new jersey accent" perfectly when she read Stephanie's mom's lines in the book!!! All in all i must say that Two for the dough definitly does not dissapoint! Its full of guns, thugs, laughs, mystery, suspense, along with a little peppering of a possible budding romance between Stephanie & Morelli... In end she catches her bad guy and can finally sleep safe and sound in her apartment again (that is of course only until she is on the hunt again in "three to get deadly"-which i will definitly be reading very soon!!)