Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-26584-7
It's always a treat to go out on a case with Stephanie Plum, the sassy, adventurous, but not always successful Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter. In her seventh outing (after 2000's Hot Six), Stephanie's employer, her bailbondsman cousin,...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26585-4
The menace is more personal for Trenton's favorite bounty hunter and the energy more manic in this latest outing than in last year's Seven Up. As a favor to her mother's next-door neighbor, Mabel Markowitz, Stephanie agrees to check up...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-312-30632-8
A sugar plum for Christmas, indeed! Stephanie Plum, Evanovich's delightfully zany New Jersey bounty hunter, is the star of this too short but hilarious holiday romp. Grousing about the approaching Yule is something many of us can relate to and...
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Janet Evanovich, Author , read by Lorelei King. Audio Renaissance $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55927-772-3
Fans of the Stephanie Plum series won't be disappointed with this wonderful adaptation of Evanovich's Christmas tale. Although it's somewhat less creative than some of her other novels, this is still an amusing tale. The story begins...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26586-1
"My same is Stephanie Plum and I was born and raised in the Chambersburg section of Trenton, where the top male activities are scarfing pastries and pork rinds and growing ass hair." Within pages of this elegant introduction to the latest...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-28972-0
Evanovich is at her best in her 10th Stephanie Plum adventure (after 2003's To the Nines
), which reads like the screenplay for a 1930s screwball comedy: fast, funny and furious. The Trenton, N.J., bond enforcement agent (bounty hunter),...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-058400-9
"Just because I know how to change a guy's oil doesn't mean I want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage." From the word go, Evanovich delivers her usual goods, albeit in a different vehicle. After 10...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-30626-7
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum (last seen in 2004's Ten Big Ones
) stumbles out of the gate due to some forced humor, but she eventually hits her usual entertaining stride in a tale that includes exploding cars, volatile wedding...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-34948-6
The mixture of slapstick and gunplay that has put Evanovich's series about a sassy, less than competent New Jersey bounty hunter at the top of bestseller lists once again works its magic in Stephanie Plum's latest caper (after 2005's...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-30634-2
In this tart and hilarious "between-the-numbers" Stephanie Plum novel from bestseller Evanovich (Twelve Sharp
), the Jersey bond enforcement agent, who already has two guys in her life (cop Joe Morelli and bounty hunter Ranger), reconnects...
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Janet Evanovich, Author St. Martin’s $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-34949-3
In her rollicking 13th Stephanie Plum adventure (after Twelve Sharp
), bestseller Evanovich is in top, quirky form. Plucky, bumbling New Jersey bounty hunter Plum is reunited with her two-timing lawyer ex-husband, Dickie Orr, while doing a favor for
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin’s $17.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-312-37763-2
In bestseller Evanovich’s breezy third holiday novella (after Plum Lovin’
), Stephanie Plum’s kooky Grandma Mazur finds a duffle full of money on the street and hightails it to Atlantic City. When Stephanie learns that the money...
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-34951-6
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself saddled with the teenage son of Loretta Rizzi, her latest skip, at the start of one of the less cohesive entries in Evanovich's bestselling series (Lean Mean Thirteen
, etc.). When Mario R
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Janet Evanovich, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-38328-2
Bestseller Evanovich recycles tired themes better executed in earlier adventures in her latest Stephanie Plum adventure (Fearless Fourteen
, etc.). When Lula inadvertently witnesses the beheading of culinary TV star Stanley Chipotle in a Trenton, N.J
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Janet Evanovich, Author St Martin's Press $27.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-20303-0
Fans of Evanovich's tales of the adventures of Stephanie Plum (Four to Score, etc.), Jersey girl and bounty hunter extraordinaire, have been eagerly anticipating this next installment in the popular series. The good news is that the novel is just as
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Janet Evanovich, Author St Martin's Press $27.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-20540-9
Sexy, smart-talking New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum returns for her sixth wildly amusing mystery (after 1999's High Five). Determination and contacts (she's grown up with half the cops and crooks in Trenton) compensate for Steph's poor aim...
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Janet Evanovich, Author HarperCollins $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-06-058403-0
At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra ""Barney"" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after...
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Janet Evanovich, St. Martin's, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38330-5
In this tepid Stephanie Plum adventure from Evanovich (Finger Lickin' Fifteen, etc.), a personal case distracts the Trenton, N.J., bondswoman from tracking the usual group of eccentric skips—the kidnapping of her cousin, Vinnie, who's being held for
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Janet Evanovich, Author Scribner Book Company $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-19639-8
First novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; dialogue this astute and raunchy is equally unusual. The gutsy heroine introduced here is Stephanie Plum of Trenton, N.J., a recently laid-off lingerie buyer who has no job, no car and no...
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Janet Evanovich, Author Scribner Book Company $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-19638-1
Sassy, brassy Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter from Trenton, N.J., introduced to acclaim in last year's One for the Money, returns to track a bond jumper through her blue-collar neighborhood known as the ``burg.'' A local funeral home, a slimy...
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Janet Evanovich, Author Scribner Book Company $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-82265-5
Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter and former lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum (last seen in Two for the Dough) becomes persona non grata when she tracks down a neighborhood saint who has failed to show up for his court appearance. No one wants to help...
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Janet Evanovich, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-18586-2
Half-Hungarian, half-Italian and all-Jersey, Trenton's best-known bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, is a raucous delight in this fast-paced sequel to Three to Get Deadly (1997). There's no such thing as a simple assignment for Stephanie. When Maxine...
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Janet Evanovich, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-00179-7
Return of sassy New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in Evanovich's followup to One for the Money. (Sept.)
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Janet Evanovich, Author Alfaguara $22.95 (332p) ISBN 978-84-204-4277-8
Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum series debuts in Spanish, with more titles to come. The series' witty numerical titles won't work in translation (Sobre la pista is instead a literal rendering of ""high five""), but the cheeky, bounty-hunting...
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Janet Evanovich. Bantam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-52771-4
Life is never dull for Stephanie Plum, but now she's got an assassin and the FBI on her tail in Evanovich's less than stellar 18th entry in her main sequence featuring the New Jersey bounty hunter (after Smokin' Seventeen). Back in Trenton after a...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Charlotte Hughes, Joint Author . St. Martin's $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-98327-7
Originally published in 1989 under the pen name Steffie Hall, Evanovich's comic romantic suspense novel Full House
reappears here in what the author calls a "bigger and better" form. Wealthy newspaper owner and horseman Nick Kaharchek...
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Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton. Bantam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-39268-5
This entertaining series launch from bestseller Evanovich and Sutton, coauthors of 2015's Wicked Charms, introduces Emerson Knight, an eccentric millionaire, and Riley Moon, a junior analyst at mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Moon is sent by the bank to...
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Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton, read by Lorelei King. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-553-55142-6
In the audio edition of this series kickoff by Evanovich and Sutton (coauthors of 2015’s Wicked Charms), actress King animates an intriguing cast of characters, beginning with the comedy thriller’s two uniquely mismatched protagonists. Her Riley...
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Janet Evanovich, Alex Evanovich and Joelle Jones, Dark Horse, $17.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59582-488-2
Bestselling author Evanovich continues her Barnaby series (Metro Girl, Motor Mouth) in graphic novel form with the help of her co-writer daughter and artist Jones (You Have Killed Me). No need to know about the previous adventures of Alex Barnaby...
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Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-385-36692-2
This first book in a new series by Evanovich and Goldberg follows hard-nosed FBI agent Kate O’Hare, who is on the hunt for charismatic conman Nick Fox, who besides being her query is also (unfortunately for Kate) her “dream man.” Kate finds Nick,...
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Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-65132-9
The first historical romance by Evanovich and Kelly (Love in a Nutshell) shines with the glitter of New York City in “the advanced year of 1894.” American heiress Caroline Maxwell doesn’t want much in life, just independence and passion in a...
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Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, read by Lorelei King. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1496-6
In Evanovich and Kelly’s romantic comedy, Kate Appleton returns home to Keene’s Harbor, Mich., to reclaim her family fortune and—more immediately—find a job. There, she allies herself with microbrewery owner Matt Culhane, who suspects an employee is
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Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, , unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-385-36696-0
Brick hits all the right notes in his reading of this entertaining collaboration between authors Evanovich and Goldberg. Con man extraordinaire Nicolas Fox and intrepid FBI agent Kate O’Hare are back for a new and exciting caper. Carter Grove,...
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Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-385-36700-4
This new caper, featuring by-the-book FBI Agent Kate O’Hare and raffish playboy/thief Nick Fox, sends the crime-busting odd couple across the globe squabbling and searching for a mysterious international drug lord they hope to swindle and put away....
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Audio Renaissance $37.95 (5p) ISBN 978-1-55927-777-8
Narrator King somehow makes the crazy, comic antics of Evanovich's irresistible bond agent, Stephanie Plum, seem almost rational in this fine audio adaptation. The story opens with the outrageous apprehension of a nude, Vaseline-coated fugitive...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Audio Renaissance $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-427-20053-2
Evanovich turns out novels faster than her bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, downs doughnuts, and that's pretty quick. Though Plum is at the center of this novella, the elusive quarry is love, not for herself but for the lonely hearts she must fix...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Macmillan Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0266-6
Evanovich's latest “Between-the-Numbers” outing begins on St. Patrick's Day, when bounty hunter Stephanie Plum spots her Grandma Mazur dragging a mysterious duffel bag down the street. Then Grandma Mazur vanishes, and Stephanie&
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Macmillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0417-2
Lorelei King returns to Trenton, N.J., to continue the misadventures of Stephanie Plum, intermittently successful bounty hunter. King is one of many to voice Janet Evanovich’s successful series, but her voice can be heard above the crowd,...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Macmillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0599-5
Klutzy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum teams up with mysterious Diesel and the monkey left on her doorstep to track down a nerdy genius and his sinister business partner in the depths of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Lorelei King does her usual...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Macmillan Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0664-0
Veteran Evanovich narrator Lorelei King seems perfectly at home when in command of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her colorful Garden State band of relatives and colleagues. The action here centers on the mysterious death of a prominent cable...
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Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King. Random House Audio, unabridged. five CDs, 6.5 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-307-93223-5
In Evanovich’s 17th installment in the Stephanie Plum series, everyone’s favorite bumbling bounty hunter is still torn between the two men in her life—security expert Ranger and tough guy cop Joe Morelli—and still watching bodies pile up around her.
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Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King. Random House Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-307-93250-1
Lorelei King continues to shine as the narrator of Evanovich’s long-running series about feisty New Jersey bail bondswoman Stephanie Plum. The wry humor of the book is evident from King’s rendition of the opening lines: “New Jersey was 40,000 feet...
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Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King. Random House Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6.25 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-385-36676-2
Narrator King continues to prove herself the perfect voice for Evanovich’s popular Stephanie Plum series. Trenton, N.J., mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi has skipped out on his bond and it’s bounty hunter Stephanie’s assignment to find him....
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Charlotte Hughes, Author, Charlotte Hughes, Joint Author . St. Martin's $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-98328-4
What do you get when you throw together a daredevil multimillionaire, a talking car, a flaky newspaper owner, a retired wrestler turned mayoral candidate, a crazy Vietnam vet and a town full of corrupt bureaucrats? A far-fetched mystery that reads...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Charlotte Hughes, Author . St. Martin's $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-93430-9
Set in Beaumont, S.C., the fifth installment in Evanovich's Full series (after 2004's Full Blast
) gets off to a raucous start. When photographer Wes Bridges comes looking for a room at Annie Fortenberry's B&B, a former bordello that&
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Debi Mazar, Read by MacMillan Audio $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55927-545-3
Actress Mazar (Goodfellas) has just the right sassy streetwise accent to fit the first-person voice of Evanovich's hero, Stephanie Plum. Mazar sounds poised yet real in her role as the New Jersey-based bounty hunter (the fifth adventure in the...
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Janet Evanovich, Author, Jennifer Enderlin, Editor, Lorelei King, Read by , read by Lorelei King. Audio Renaissance $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55927-783-9
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TEN BIG ONES: A Stephanie Plum Novel
Janet Evanovich
, read by Lorelei King. Audio Renaissance
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Janet Evanovich. Atria, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5487-5
In bestseller Evanovich’s fast and funny 28th Stephanie Plum mystery (after 2020’s Fortune and Glory), Stephanie, the perkiest bail bonds enforcement agent in Trenton, N.J., chases an odd assortment of bail jumpers. In particular, Stephanie is...
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Janet Evanovich. Atria, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-66800-309-1
Trenton, N.J., bounty hunter Stephanie Plum looks into a pair of jewelry heists in her goofy, good-natured latest adventure from bestseller Evanovich (after 2022’s Going Rogue). Martin Plover, owner of one of Trenton’s best-known jewelry stores,...
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Janet Evanovich. Atria, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-66800-305-3
At the start of bestseller Evanovich’s fast and fun 29th outing for Stephanie Plum (after 2021’s Game On), the Trenton, N.J., bail bondswoman arrives at work one morning to find Connie Rosolli, the ever dependable office manager at Vincent Plum Bail
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Janet Evanovich. Atria, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5491-2
In this rollicking series launch from bestseller Evanovich (the Stephanie Plum novels), Gabriela Rose, a globe-trotting insurance fraud investigator who occasionally takes jobs recovering items for private clients, searches for the long-lost...
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Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton. Atria, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5713-5
Bestseller Evanovich’s underwhelming seventh Fox and O’Hare novel, with Hamilton (after 2019’s The Big Kahuna), takes Nick Fox, a former world-class thief who now works for the FBI, and FBI agent Kate O’Hare, who’s responsible for keeping him on the
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