Two for the Dough

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.
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.

Janet Evanovich's first Stephanie Plum novel, One for the Money, was named a New York Times notable book, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1994, and a USA Today "Best Bet." Winner of the Dilys Award, presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers' Association as the book "most fun to sell," it was a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, and Macavity awards. Evanovich lives with her family in New Hampshire, where she is at work on Stephanie Plum's next adventure.