Ten Big Ones (novel)

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Ten Big Ones
First edition cover
Author Janet Evanovich
Country United States
Language English
Series Stephanie Plum
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Released May 31, 2004
Media Type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 512 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-312-28972-3 (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by To the Nines
Followed by Eleven on Top

Ten Big Ones is the tenth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. It was written in 2004.

[edit] Plot Summary

In this installment of Stephanie Plum's bounty hunter adventures, Stephanie has no central FTA (Failed to Appear) to capture this time around but is being hunted herself. The novel beings with Stephanie and her sometimes partner Lula sitting outside in their card debating about no other than. They accidentally witness a Gang robbery and are swept in to the underground life of Trenton, New Jersey.

She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead...or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thought it would sound good to put it that way...) It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another car. It would be just another day in the life of Stephanie Plum...except that she becomes the target of a gang. And the target of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. With super bounty hunter Ranger acting more mysteriously 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 the Junkman. There's only one safe place, and it has Ranger's name all over it-if she can find it. And if the Junkman doesn't find her first. With Lula riding shotgun and Grandma Mazur on the loose, Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in her most suspenseful novel yet. Ten Big Ones is page-turning entertainment and Janet Evanovich is the best there is.