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Book Review By BethG
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum returns as Janet Evanovich's heroine. Stephanie is a bounty hunter who never gets her man. Stephanie is just one step away from being inept. She just getes lucky.   In this story, a missing person case takes her on a wild goose chase. Only this time, a local mob boss doesn't like Stephanie butting into the case. Apparently there is something the missing person has that the mob guy wants. He blows up at least two of Stephanie's cars and kills a man in her apartment to try to deliver his message to stay away. Stephanie also has to deal with an elusive man who refuses to be taken in for his court date. And she still can't make up her mind if she's still interested in cop friend Joe Morelli, or the sexy mercenary Ranger. Friend Lulu and Grandma Mazur join the crime fighting as usual and the whole cast creates a comedy of errors trying to capture the bad guys and still stay alive.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - very humorous
Time/era of story:
descript. of violence and chases - 50 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - breaking up mobsters
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
The antagonists are: - US mafia
How sensitive is this character?
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: -

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual forms of death - perforation--swords/knives
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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