High Five

Stephanie Plum - AKA "The Bounty Hunter from Hell". Stephanie may not be the smoothest, but she's like a pit bull when she's on the case. She's been known to beat up little people, hardly ever shoots anyone.

Connie Rosolli - Office manager at Vincent Plum Bail Bonding Company. She's got high hair, big boobs, and plenty of attitude. She takes grief from no one.

Madame Zaretsky - A local "pro" who panders some rather exotic services. One of Vinnie's favorites.

Vincent Plum - Stephanie's employer and cousin. A boil on the backside of the family tree.

Randy Briggs - A little person with a big attitude problem. Recently FTA on a carrying concealed charge.

Ranger - Stephanie's bounty hunter mentor. He's Cuban American, ex-military, a world-class tracker, and an all-around badass.

Lula - Former 'ho who now does filing for Vinnie. She's a big lady with a tight fitting wardrobe. She sometimes plays side kick with Stephanie on takedowns.

Grandma Mazur - Stephanie's sprightly grandmother. She like bingo, big guns, and male exotic dancers.

Betty Szajack - One of Grandma Mazur's friends.

Emma Getz - One of Grandma Mazur's friends.

Helen Plum - Stephanie's mother. She's the model burg housewife. With a daughter like Stephanie, she has to do a lot of ironing to maintain her sanity.

Frank Plum - Stephanie's father. He's big on America, Buick, and automatic transmissions. He's not so big on Grandma Mazur and long conversations.

Fred Shutz - Stephanie's uncle. He's married to Grandma Mazur's cousin Mabel. Known as a cheapskate of epic proportions. He's recently gone missing.

Eddie Such - The local butcher.

Aunt Mabel - Grandma Mazur's cousin, married to Uncle Fred. She's a softer, rounder version of Grandma Mazur.

Ronald and Walter Shutz - Uncle Fred's two sons. They have looked all over town for Fred, but weren't able to turn up anything.

Eddie Gazarra - Trenton cop who is a childhood friend of Stephanie Plum. He's married to Stephanie's cousin Shirley the Whiner

Shirley the Whiner - Stephanie's cousin. Married to Eddie Gazarra.

Joe Morelli - A plainclothes cop with skills not covered in the policeman's handbook. He and Stephanie have something going, but its hard to say what.

Loretta Walenowsky - One of Uncle Fred's former "honeys".

Charlotte Nagy - Friend of Stephanie Plum. Stephanie was a bridesmaid at her wedding.

Katherine - A black cat that Stephanie had as a kid. She just turned up missing one day, kind of like Uncle Fred.

Lester Santos - One of Ranger's "interior decorators".

Bobby Brown - One of Ranger's "interior decorators".

Tank - One of Ranger's "interior decorators".

Mrs. Bestler - 83 year old lady who lives on the third floor of Stephanie Plum's building. Sometimes, she likes to play elevator operator.

Mary Lou - Stephanie Plum's best friend. She has a husband and a few kids now, but she still likes to get into trouble with Stephanie on occasion.

Harriet Schnable - Lady who frequents the same beauty parlor that Grandma Mazur goes to.

Winnie Black - One of Fred's "honeys". he met her at a senior meeting.

Axel Black - Winnie Black's husband.

Ida Lukach - The senior club's membership chairman.

Jean - Uncle Fred's daughter-in-law. She's married to his son, Walter.

Arnie - One of Joe Morelli's cop friends.

Anthony Pino - Owner of Pino's, a burg watering hole. Some say they have the best pizza in Trenton.

Benito Ramirez - Professional heavyweight boxer from Trenton. He's a real sicko who's just been released from prison. Something tells Stephanie that he will be paying her a visit.

Bunchy - A shady character who turns up in Stephanie's life shortly after Fred goes missing. He tells her he's a bookie, but its pretty clear that he isn't.

Edna Gluck - A burg gossip.

Richie Gluck - Edna Gluck's son.

Leona Freeman - Stephanie Plum's second cousin on her mother's side. She's a teller at First Trenton Bank.

Allen Shempsky - Vice President at First Trenton Bank.

Martha Deter - Receptionist at RGC waste haulers.

Larry Lipinski - Bookkeeper at RGC waste haulers.

Rose Molinowski - Burg lady who has a great bean casserole recipe.

Eddie - Ranger's mechanic guy. He works out of an unmarked garage at Third and Marshall. Looks a lot like Antonio Banderas.

Ahmed Fahed - A young sheik flying into Trenton to visit family. Ranger assigns Stephanie to chauffeur him.

Bones - A Rangeman employee

Joyce Barnhardt - Stephanie Plum's arch-enemy. She was a horrible kid and now she's a full blown mutant human being.

Carl Costanza - Trenton cop who always seems to find Stephanie at her worst moments. He has developed a real appreciation for the havoc that she can cause.

"Big Dog" - Trenton cop who is Carl's partner. Everyone just calls him Big Dog.

Joe Juniak - Trenton cop.

Lavern Stankowski - A burg gossip.

Joey Stankowski - Lavern's son. He works the EMS truck, so he gets a lot of the juicy news.

Constantine Stiva - The burg's premier undertaker.

Rita Gunt - Lady who was noted for some unusual work done on her by Stiva after she passed away.

Mary Jo Klick - Friend of Grandma Mazur who tried hormone treatments when she started "the change".

Mrs. Balog - Recently deceased lady who occupies slumber room three at Stiva's.

Stanley Krienski - Recently deceased man who occupies slumber room two at Stiva's.

Myra Smulinski - Regular attendee of viewings at Stiva's.

Harriet Farver - Regular attendee of viewings at Stiva's.

Terry Gilman - Member of the Grizolli clan. She works for Vito Grizolli, a major figure in Trenton's underworld. She used to date Joe Morelli in high school.

Vito Grizolli - Family man who runs a dry cleaning business that launders a lot more than clothing. He is rumored to be moving up the corporate ladder of Trenton's underworld.

Alphonse Ruzick - High-bond FTA that Ranger is tracking.

Sandy Polan - High school acquaintance of Stephanie's who lives on the same block as Alphose Ruzick.

Mrs. Karwatt - Tenant of Stephanie Plum's building.

Irene Tully - Old lady who was the last person to see Uncle Fred before he disapeared.

Uncle Manny - Morelli's uncle. He's a "construction expediter", which means that you pay him if you don't want any mysterious fires at your construction site.

Uncle Dominic - Morelli's uncle from New York state.

Aunt Rosa - One of Morelli's aunts.

Aunt Loretta - Another one of Morelli's aunts.

Myra - One of Morelli's relatives that attends his cousin Julie's wedding.

Grandma Bella - Morelli's feared and revered grandmother. Some people believe that she has special powers, others believe that she's just wacko.

Ray Barkolowski - Guy who got "they eye" from Grandma Bella, and all of his teeth fell out.

Louis - Joe's cousin. He fools around on his wife, according to Grandma Bella.

Frankie Russo - A member of the Morelli clan. He goes a bit berserk at Julie's wedding.

Mosel - Stiva's competition in the funeral business. Grandma Mazur criticizes him because he "don't know nothin' about makeup."

Jean Moon - Burg resident whose cousin Dorothy died recently.

Dorothy - Jean Moon's cousin. She died recently, and Stiva's was so busy that she has to go to Mosel.

Sue Ann Schmatz - A "professional mourner" who frequents viewings at Stiva's.

Emma Getz - A "professional mourner" who frequents viewings at Stiva's.

Mrs. Kunkle - Recently deceased who is laid out in room four at Stiva's. She got the $12,000 mahogany-and-brass slumber chamber.

Mrs. Ciak - A burg gossip.

Bucky Meyer - Guy who works at the fire department. He loves to drive the big truck.

Margaret Burger - Little old lady who came to Stiva's to spit on a dead guy. It seems he worked for the cable company and he caused her husband's death.

Sol Burger - Margaret's husband. She says he died from high blood pressure that came from dealing with the cable company.

John Curly - The dead cable guy who drove Sol Burger to his grave.

Laura Lipinski - Wife of Larry Lipinski. She just up and left him recently.

Maureen Blum - Lady who married Allen Shempsky after they finished college.

Mrs. Morgenthal - 92 year old lady who lives on the third floor of Stephanie's building.

Mrs. Delgado - Old lady who lives on the third floor of Stephanie's building.

Ryan Perin - Lawyer who missed some payments on his Jaguar.

Mark Stemper - RGC bookkeeper from the Camden office. He filling in at the Trenton office temporarily.

Lenny Stankovic - Mary Lou's husband. He hasn't got much upstairs, but that isn't what Mary Lou looks for in a man anyway.

Harriet Mullen - Burg lady who just had a baby by c-section.

Mickey Szajak - Burg resident who passed away recently.

Vivien Grizolli - Vito Grizolli's wife. She has fake eyelashes and dyes her hair bright red.

Kenyon Lally - Wife beating FTA that Stephanie and Lula go after.

Marion Beddle - Member of the Grizolli clan who works at First Trenton Bank.

Phil Zuck - guy who works in the mortgage department at First Trenton Bank.

Sy Bernstein - Lawyer who was disbarred for illegal practices.

Annie Shuman - Employee at First Trenton Bank who has had some financial hardship due to a sick child.

Rose White - Employee at First Trenton who likes to play the slots at Atlantic City.

Harvey Tipp - Allen Shempsky's poker buddy.

Mrs. Keene - Tenant of Stephanie's building. She has cataracts, two inch thick lenses, and a gun.