Three to get deadly

The Resource Three to get deadly
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Three to get deadly
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Janet Evanovich
Title variation
3 to get deadly
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Language
eng
Summary
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds a whole town against her when she tries to apprehend Moses Bedemier, a store owner who jumped bail on a concealed weapon charge. It appears he is a vigilante keeping the town clean of drug dealers. By the author of Two for the Dough
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Award
  • Dilys Award, 1998.
  • Silver Dagger Award for Fiction, 1997.
Review
  • Since getting the bounce from her job as the lingerie buyer at a major department store, Stephanie Plum has been working the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, as a bounty hunter. Stephanie likes to think it's a temporary gig until something better comes along, but she's not fooling anybody, least of all herself: she loves the rush, claiming that nothing puts a little bounce in a girl's step like a .38 and a pair of cuffs. Her latest job is to track down Moses "Uncle Mo" Besemier, a respectable old bachelor who jumped bail. Why did he skip when all he would have faced is a fine and an admonishment to behave himself? Stephanie realizes there's more to the case when, while seeking out one of Mo's pals, she's knocked out and wakes up next to a very dead guy. She also learns that a lot of local drug dealers have been meeting with deadly accidents, leaving town, or keeping very low profiles. Her job is further complicated by an ominous minister and an old flame from the police department. Stephanie Plum stands apart from the female series characters who are so popular in crime fiction. She's funnier, tougher, politically incorrect, and just loves her job to death. This may be the break-out entry in an already critically acclaimed series. Be prepared for significant demand. ((Reviewed December 1, 1996)) -- Wes Lukowsky
  • Rendezvous Review: Fast, fresh, and funny, THREE TO GET DEADLY recaptures the style and spirit of Book I in this series. Ex-lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum has been a bounty hunter for five months, working for her sleezeball bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie. Her current assignment is to apprehend Uncle Mo, a beloved candy store owner from "the burg" (Stephanie's turf and a residential section of Trenton, NJ) who jumped bail. With the help of 230 pound Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk, Stephanie's pursuit is full of danger, laughs, intriguing twists, and lots of dead bodies. Lula's status as a bounty hunter in training provides priceless comedy as her fresh-mouthed, sassy, no-nonsense, street-wise attitude is a perfect foil for the spunky Stephanie whose vulnerable qualities reemerge -- she always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and seriously ponders the wisdom of her present career choice. Homicide detective Joe Morelli is as sexy and exasperating as ever. Giving him a run for his money in the hunk department is the enigmatic bounty hunter, Ranger, whose hidden depths are gradually being revealed. Writing with pizzazz, wit, and savoir-faire, Ms. Evanovich creates a great cast of characters and marvelous dialogue -- it's laugh-outloud humor. THREE TO GET DEADLY is a winner! Bring on Book 4! Sara Sweeney
  • Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter and former lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum (last seen in Two for the Dough) becomes persona non grata when she tracks down a neighborhood saint who has failed to show up for his court appearance. No one wants to help Stephanie, who works for her bail-bondsman cousin, Vinnie. While questioning admirers of the man nicknamed Uncle Mo, Stephanie is attacked and knocked out as she cases his candy store. She comes to next to the dead body of her attacker, who turns out to be a well-known drug dealer. Suddenly, she can't avoid stumbling across the bodies of dead drug dealers: one in a dumpster, one in a closet and four in the candy store basement. Stephanie suspects that mild-mannered Mo has become a vigilante and is cleaning up the streets in a one-man killing spree. But when she's repeatedly threatened by men wearing ski masks, she wonders if Mo has company and just might be in over his head. Despite her new clownish orange hair job, Stephanie muddles through another case full of snappy one-liners as well as corpses. By turns buttressed and hobbled by her charmingly clueless family and various cohorts (including streetwise co-worker Lulu, detective and heartthrob Morelli and professional bounty hunter Ranger), the redoubtable Stephanie is a character crying out for a screen debut. Mystery Guild selection; Literary Guild alternate; major ad/promo; author tour. (Feb.)
  • Hunting for a local candy-store owner who jumped bail, Trenton's most famous bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum (last seen in Two for the Dough, LJ 1/96) is knocked out on the job. She awakens beside a dead man who happens to be in violation of a bond agreement with her cousin Vinnie, so homicide wants to give her the third degree. More fast and funny action from a winning writer. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/96.]
  • Most of the "Failure To Appears" that bounty hunter Stephanie Plum goes after are no great loss to society; it's only their girlfriends and bowling partners who don't want them caught. But Moses Bedemier is no ordinary FTA. The candy-store owner pulled in on a concealed-weapon charge is a popular guy in his Trenton neighborhood, and nobody but Stephanie cares whether he sets a new court date. So when Stephanie goes after Uncle Mo, the path is littered with the bodies of buddies who've thrown themselves in the way--and some bodies that have been thrown by other folks, too. Before long, Stephanie, on her second illegal visit to Mo's apartment, comes across the first of four dead drug dealers (and she'll soon lead her onetime-lover/constant nemesis Joe Morelli and his colleagues on the Trenton Police to four more, though the cops have to dig these four up themselves). What's the connection between staunch if slippery Uncle Mo and the bad guys? Why do a bunch of ski-masked thugs keep threatening Stephanie and her hamster with violence if she doesn't lay off Mo? And what can she do about the hideous orange color her hair turned in the middle of a chase after still another FTA? Stephanie's third case (Two for the Dough, 1996, etc.) dispenses almost entirely with mystery and detection in favor of a comedy/variety format. But in going repeatedly for the funny bone, Evanovich, who clearly agrees with her heroine that "adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey," is obviously dealing from strength. (Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 1996)
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Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3555.V2126
LC item number
T48 1997
Literary form
fiction
Series statement
Stephanie Plum mysteries
Series volume
0003

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