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Eleven on Top
Stephanie Plum is a Jersey girl doing what she has to do to make ends meet. Not only has she been working as a bounty hunter tracking criminals all over the city, but she looks good doing it. After being shot at and covered with more questionable substances than she cares to remember she turns over her handcuffs to her friend Lulu. Her parents and sometime lover Joe are quite pleased by her decision to change jobs, but some things never change. She ...
Four to Score
Stephanie Plum, Trenton New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter is back again. This time she is on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a tranvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike-inc...
Full House
Janet Evanovich's “Full House” assembles a quirky cast, including Billie, a divorced mother of two; Nick Kaharchek, her wealthy love interest; Sheridan Flock, his former fiance; Deedee, his serial marrying cousin whose latest fiance is the champion wrestler, Frankie the Assassin; Deedee's younger brother Max, the child genius; and Raoul, their pest control man. All of these characters come under suspicion as geraniums, cars, and stables start to blow up...
Full Tilt
This is the second in a series by Janet Evanovich. The first book is Full House. These aren't a series in the classic sense of the word. The word "full" is in each title and the general themes are the same, but they are not repeating characters. In the first one, the series was meant to be more romantic that Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. But with this second book, it reverted back to the mystery genre. There is a small hint of sexual attractio...

Evanovich booklist

Hard Eight
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 a...
High Five
In this fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun toting eccentric Grandma Mazur, and an angry little man who won't leave her apartment. The big guy at the bank, Mr. Shempsky knows a lot as well behind the story of Uncle Fred. He's keeping a secret he doesn't want to tell....
Hot Six
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is here again and faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the mysterious former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger). He's the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows that she is testing her skills against the master. But if she does catch him, she's not so sure she can turn Ranger in-even if he is wanted for murder. Along with everything else, Stephanie'...
Man Hunt
Alexandra is sick of her high up position working as an executive for a large company. The job has a big paycheck - but even bigger overtime hours and responsibilities. Worst of all, she's not getting any younger... So she trades her pad in New Jersey for a house and hardware store in rural Alaska. Packing her bags and her dog into her cute little sportscar, she sets off for her new home - only to find that what she had hoped would be a nice house and we...
One For The Money
Since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for E.E. Martin, and trading in all her furniture and appliances for food and electricity, Stephanie Plum needs cash-fast. In desperation, she turns to her sleazy cousin Vinnie for a job. But the only job open is in the field of bounty hunting. Stephanie has no experience, but she's determined not to let that stop her. So who's her first FTA? None other than Joe Morelli, a former vice cop who happ...
Plum Spooky
Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, is on the hunt for a man who wants to take over the world. Stephanie Plum works for her cousin Vincent Plum in his bail bonds business. Stephanie's job is to apprehend people that don't show up for their court dates. The problem is that Stephanie is not terribly competent at her job and most of her cases are solved through dumb luck or help from her mentor and friend, Ranger. Stephanie's case involves Martin Munch, a gen...

Janet Evanovich list of books

Seven Up
Stephanie Plum is back in Seven Up, this time hunting (quasi) retired criminal Eddie De Chooch. Eddie, of course, doesn't want to be caught, and he's crazier and meaner than Steph, not to mention a better shot. Bodies keep showing up - as usual - and some of Steph's friends have disappeared. When Grandma Mazur gets kidnapped, though, Steph knows she'll have to solve the mystery and sort things out. She can't do it without the help of bounty hunter ex...
Takedown Twenty
In Takedown Twenty, a Stephanie Plum novel, bounty hunter Plum tracks down a killer who is leaving old women in a dumpster and unravels the mystery behind a giraffe who is seen roaming the streets in Trenton, NJ. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels are known for being light, fun mysteries with eccentric characters and interesting plot twists. Takedown Twenty is no exception. In this novel, Plum works with Morelli (love interest #1 to whom she is "pra...
Ten Big Ones
Stephanie Plum, an inept bounty hunter who manages to survive on luck and connections alone, is back and in more trouble than ever before. Stephanie witnesses a robbery and is the only person capable of identifying the person who did it. While attempting to do her job and find the person responsible for the robbery, Stephanie becomes the target of a gang. In order to stay alive, she has to go into hiding, but she can't afford not to do her job. Morel...
Thanksgiving
Meghan Murphy has a late 20's woman with 3 failed engagements. After the last one she ended up in Colonial Williamsburg working part time as a weekend ticket taker for local shops and a full time tea pot maker during the week. While this current lifestyle is lonely she is happy with herself and feels like she is making her way finally. While Meghan is sitting enjoying lunch one weekend she sees a floppy eared rabbit come up and is amused. The amuse...
The Rocky Road to Romance
Harper Torch, Sep 2004, 7.50 ISBN: 0060598891 In DC twenty-six years old Daisy Adams brings youthful exuberance to her five minute spot as the “Dog Lady of Snooze” on WZZZ twenty-four hour radio station. To pay her bills including her school loan and to feed her teenage brother, Daisy holds a host of other jobs such as delivering papers, crossing guard, waitress, cab driver and a graduate school counseling internship. When the station's traffic...
Three to Get Deadly
Stephanie Plum --- New Jersey's accident-prone version of a Canadian Mountie --- is back on the case. Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most popular citizen, is a court appearance no-show after he is arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Affectionately known as Uncle Mo to his friends and the neighborhood kids, he may be in big trouble as Stephanie discovers his clandestine life as an anti-drug vigilante. Nobody in Trenton wants to see him put behind bars, and ...

Janet Evanovich novels

To The Nines
Stephanie is partnered with Ranger to execute a bond on Samuel Singh who has disappeared a week before his visa is due to expire. Stephanie's family are as crazy as ever, and Stephanie's romantic feelings for both Morelli and Ranger are strongly featured. Stephanie is in danger early in the piece and there are several murders before the killer decides it is time to play with her. This is a really easy, fast paced thriller but anyone who hasn't read t...
Twelve Sharp
Stephanie Plum is back again in the 12th book of the series. It turns out that Ranger has been keeping some secrets from Stephanie (big surprise). While tracking down her FTA Stephanie discovers that some weird woman is stalking her. The woman dresses exactly like Ranger, has the same attitude as Ranger, and identifies herself as his wife. Ranger and Stephanie pair up together to find a kidnapper, rescue a child, and try to avoid to get nabbed in the p...
Two for the Dough
In this book, Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter, has been given another arduous task by her boss, cousin Vinnie. She has to try and capture Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working class burg of Trenton, New Jersey, who has just shot his best friend. Fresh out of the army, and suspiciously wealthy, Mancuso's also distantly related to Joe Morelli, a vice cop with questionable ethics, a libido in permanent overdrive, and he's also nosing in on Stephanie's inv...
Visions of Sugar Plums
St. Martin's, Nov 2002, 19.95, 160 pp. ISBN 0312306326 Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is not having a good time. It is only a few days before Christmas and she hasn't sent out any cards, doesn't have a tree, and has yet to go shopping for gifts. She has had no luck in finding Sandy Claws, a senior citizen who failed to appear in court on a burglary charge. If all that wasn't bad enough, a man materializes in her kitchen who goes by the name of P...
Wife For Hire
Maggie Toone wants to escape from her hometown where most people consider her as one of the 'crazies'. So when she gets a chance to run away to a remote US town, Skogen Vermont, where no one knows her, she ditches her job as a school teacher and decides to become Hank Mallone's 'wife on hire'. Maggie also decides to use her time away to work on her first book based on her Aunt Kitty's diary. Hank, a reformed rake, wants to prove to his father and ...