

He’s her ex-beau too, if you can count a one-night, virginity-losing tryst on the floor of a bakery a beau-making relationship. He’s an ex-cop, after all-not the easiest of prey to track down. Hey, she always knew that bringing Morelli in would have its share of complications. She gets an assignment-apprehending a dude named Joe Morelli who’s wanted for murder. She gets a car from her slightly crazy grandmother. She gets a gun from her new bag-the-bad-guys mentor, Ranger.

Stephanie bums the job off her cousin, Vinnie. (Well, it could be a small Guinea pig, but they eat the same stuff.) What, exactly, is a car-free, rodent-owning, former lingerie saleswoman equipped to do?īounty hunt, of course.

She’s getting overdue rent notices from her landlord. Laid off from her gig as a lingerie salesman at Macy’s, she’s in desperate need of cash.
