Ten Big Ones

Stephanie Plum - Bond enforcement agent and doughnut addict. She's Italian on her father's side, Hungarian on her mother's side, and Jersey through and through.

Ranger - In the bond enforcement game, he's the best. Not only that, he is also incredibly hot and smells great.

Lula - Possibly the worst bond enforcement agent around, but that's because she's a file clerk. At least she always has Stephanie's back.

Roger Banker - Accused of grand theft auto, Roger missed his court date. That makes him FTA (failure to appear), so now Stephanie has to bring him in.

Victor - Pakistani day manager at the deli mart on Hamilton Ave.

Joe Morelli - A very sexy Trenton plainclothes cop. He has a long history with Stephanie and the two are currently living together.

Andy Zajack - A Trenton uniformed police officer. He was recently busted back from plainclothes for asking some embarrassing questions.

Robin Russell - A Trenton police officer, she is Andy Zajack's partner. Stephanie was one year ahead of Robin in school.

Valerie - Stephanie's sister. She recently moved into Stephanie's apartment with her two daughters and new baby. She hasn't got around to finding a place of her own yet.

Albert Kloughn - Valerie's boyfriend and father of her new baby. He and Valerie are enjoying a very sweet period in their relationship. He's her cuddle-umpkins.

Connie - Office manager at Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. She's 5'4" and looks like Betty Boop with a mustache.
Harold Pancek - He was arrested for getting drunk and trying to pee on someone's cat. Now he's missed his court date.

Mrs. Gooding - Owner of the cat that Mr. Pancek tried to take a leak on. Harold also managed to kill her favorite rosebush in his effort.

Carol Cantell - She is wanted for holding up a Frito-Lay truck. Apparently, she was on a low-carb diet and when she saw the truck parked in front of a store, she just snapped.

Sally Sweet - Transvestite rocker and friend of Stephanie. His file has turned up in Vinnie's office due to an assault charge.

Vincent Plum - Stephanie's cousin on her father's side and owner of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. His rating as a human being would be somewhere in the vicinity of pond slime.

Harry the Hammer - Prominent member of the local underworld. His only daughter is married to Vinnie.

Grandma Mazur - Stephanie's grandmother. She has the body of a soup chicken and a mind that defies description.

Lorraine Schnagel - She died recently and her viewing was at Stiva's. Unfortunately, it was a closed casket.

Helen Plum - Stephanie's mother. Having a bounty hunter for a daughter has been hard on her. She does a lot of ironing and pleading with God.

Frank Plum - Stephanie's father. Since cuddle-umpkins and oogie-woogie bear took the kids and moved to Stephanie's place, things are looking up for Frank. Now if he could only get rid of Grandma Mazur.

Uncle Sandor - Stephanie's great uncle. He left his '53 Buick Roadmaster to Grandma Mazur when he went to the nursing home. Now, Stephanie drives Big Blue whenever one of her cars gets wrecked.

Eddie Gazarra - Trenton cop and Stephanie's friend since childhood. He's a likable, blonde-haired chunk. He married Stephanie's cousin, Shirley the Whiner.

Traci Wenke - Trenton gossip who gets fresh news from the police band.

Myron Flatt - Another Trenton resident who spend a lot of time listening to the police band.

Elsa Downing - She gets the gossip early because her daughter is a dispatcher.

Mary Alice - Valerie's daughter. Most of the time, she's a horse.

Angie - Valerie's older daughter.

Bob the Dog - A big, goofy, orange-haired beast who eats everything. He was Stephanie's dog but now he is kind of Morelli's.

Rex - Stephanie's faithful hamster.

Aunt Rose - Morelli's aunt. She left him her house when she passed away.

Cindy - Carol Cantell's sister.

Marty Skylar - High school jock that sally Sweet clobbered with his guitar. Sally says that Skyler was hitting on him.

Barbara Jean Biabloki - Pom-pom queen who married Marty Skyler.

Melvin Biabloki - Marty Skylar's father in law. He owns a huge Toyota dealership on South Broad Street.

Eugene Brown - A guy who ended up on the hood of Stephanie's car after a dustup on Comstock Street. He's been arrested so many times, he's like family at Vinnie's office.

Mrs. Wexler - A gossip with a very fast dialing finger.

Mrs. Rodgers - Another hard-working Trenton gossip.

Leslie Giovichinni - She works the register at Giovichinni's market.

Loretta Stonehouser, Rita Metzger, and Margaret Durski - Potential bridesmaids at Valerie and Kloughn's wedding.

Grandma Bella - Morelli's nutty grandmother. She has some Italian voodoo thing called "The Eye" and she gets visions, usually of a disturbing nature.

Lowanda Jones - One of Roger Banker's friends. She does phone sex out of her apartment, and keeps a pack of dogs that will hump anything.

Beverly Barber - Lowanda's sister. She's another lady who sometimes puts Roger banker up.

Marjorie Best and Charmaine Williamson - Two more women in Roger Banker's long list of places to stay when he's on the run.

Tank - One of Ranger's merry men. He's huge and has a shaved head that looks like it's been buffed with Pledge.

Lois Krishewitz - She used to own a house that Valerie and Kloughn are thinking about renting.

Esther Hamish - She bought the rental from Lois with insurance money from her husband Harry's death.

Renee Platt - She works behind the counter of The Tasty Pastry.

Lou Raguzzi - Trenton mobster who is pretending to be down on his luck because the IRS is auditing him.

Charley Whitehead - He's being laid out at Stiva's. It should be a good viewing because he was in The Knights of Columbus.

Mooch Morelli - Joe's cousin.

Mrs. Zuch - Another Burg gossip who gets all the juicy news.

Grizwaldi - Owner of the dog that Harold Pancek claims actually killed Mrs. Gooding's rosebush.

Gus Chianni - Trenton cop who is one of Morelli's longtime drinking buddies.

Joe Juniak - Congressman from Trenton.

Hog - Guy who owns some property on Fisher. He sells crappy cars of questionable origin.

Greasy Lovey - Another shady car dealer.

Junkman - Contract killer brought in from California by a local gang.

Midgie Herrel - One of Grandma Mazur's friends.

Anton Ward - High bond FTA who was arrested for stabbing his girlfriend.

Shoshanna Brown - FTA wanted for possession. She only gets caught when she needs some dental work from the work house.

Jamil Rodriguez - FTA who was picked up for shoplifting. When he was arrested he had a Glock, a box cutter, a sandwich bag filled with Ecstasy, and a human thumb in a vial of formaldehyde.

Francine Taylor - She secured Anton Ward's bond, putting her house up as collateral.

Lauralene Taylor - Francine Taylor's daughter. She is very pregnant with Anton Ward's child.

The Krezwickis - Frank and Helen Plum's next door neighbors.

Aunt Stella - Stephanie's rotund aunt.

Carl Costanza - Trenton uniformed cop who takes a special joy in witnessing Stephanie's disasters.

Mrs. Ciak - Frank and Helen Plum's neighbor.

Violet - A relative of Stephanie's who was nice and thin until she was 30 and then ballooned up.

Bobby V - Guy who works at Marsilio's.

Alan - Owner of Marsilio's.

Anthony - Connie's cousin who knows about things like how to stuff someone in the trunk of your car.

Ella and Louis Guzman - They manage Ranger's RangeMan headquarters in Trenton. Ella does housekeeping.

Latisha Anne - Shoshanna Brown's neighbor.

Hector Santini - Trenton thug who stiffed Jamil Rodriguez on a drug deal.

Maria Raguzzi - Owner of The Bride Shoppe, where Valerie and the bridesmaids are being fitted for the wedding.

Moody Black - Former top guy in the Trenton area Slayers.