Three years later, the next time she sees him, she retaliates for his bragging about their night together by running into him with her car and purposely breaking his leg. Set-Up (pages 1 – 18): Beyond playing “Choo-choo” with Morelli at the age of six and losing her virginity to him at age 16, we learn that Stephanie isn’t one to take an insult lightly.
Opening Image (pages 1 – 3): We’re introduced to a 30-year-old divorced former lingerie buyer raised in a blue-collar neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey called “the burg.” In the opening pages, Stephanie Plum reflects on her childhood, her upbringing with the many Italian-Hungarian family and friends in the area and, in particular, her earliest memories of Joe Morelli, the bad boy from her youth who eventually becomes a local cop. Here are my take on the Blake Snyder beats for One for the Money: The characters have come to feel like old friends to me and, while the latter stories in the series have their merits, the first dozen or so Plum books will always be close to my heart. I devoured the first nine books in three weeks… had to wait that additional month for the tenth (which I finished in a day) and then an entire year for the eleventh. I took their advice on giving her writing a try, but once I picked up One for the Money, I didn’t want to stop reading. I was working at the public library in the circulation department, and one of the joys of that position was talking to patrons about their favorite novels and authors. I remember this time period well because the wait for that next book-a mere month until its publication-was practically torturous. I didn’t start reading the series until 2004, a full decade into it and just a few weeks before the release of the tenth Plum novel, Ten Big Ones. Granted, I was a little slow on the uptake initially. But this novel is the book where it all began, and I was hooked from page one. Book #26, Twisted Twenty-Six, is set to be released this year on November 12th, and it continues to star the enduringly loveable bounty hunter heroine, Stephanie, from Trenton, New Jersey, who solves crimes with the help of her quirky family and wisecracking friends. The first “Stephanie Plum” novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich started a comedic mystery series that’s still going strong. How does One for the Money hit Blake Snyder’s story beats? Here is the Save the Cat!® beat sheet for the novel:
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