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Bestselling author Janet Evanovich is the recipient of the Crime Writers Association's John Creasy Memorial, Last Laugh, and Silver Dagger awards, as well as the Left Coast Crime's Lefty award, and is the two-time recipient of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association's Dilys award.... read more

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  1. Seven Up

    by Janet Evanovich (Author)

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's got a lot on her mind. How does cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch, a fugitive so geriatric that even the hot-to-trot Grandma Mazur won't go out with him a third time, keep giving her the slip? How did a woman...

  2. Hard Eight

    by Janet Evanovich (Author)

    In Hard Eight , Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect...

  3. To the Nines

    by Janet Evanovich (Author)

    Take a trip down the Jersey Turnpike to the irresistible world of Stephanie Plum-where America's favorite bounty hunter gets into more trouble than ever. This time, Stephanie, Lula, and Grandma have a Vegas-sized problem on their hands. The...

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  • Morelli: Homicide Detective. Stephanie has known him since she was 6 yrs old and he looked up her dress. He's still doing it. Morelli and Stephanie love each other, have talked about marriage, even went so far as to get "kind-of" engaged, but she's a bit phobic about commitment, and he doesn't like her job.
  • Evelyn Soder: Young mother who disappears with her daughter after her husband leaves her for another woman. Stephanie is one of the many people looking for Evelyn and her child.
  • Lula: An ex-ho turned file clerk at Vinnie's bail bond office, she is a "plus size" woman, who helps Stephanie get in and out of fixes - she likes to carry a large gun.
  • Eddie Abruzzi: Nasty mob boss-type. He likes to instill fear and inflict pain. He is one of the people looking for Evelyn.
  • Albert Kloughn: A small-time young lawyer who represents Evelyn and ends up joining Stephanie and Lula on a few encounters.
  • Valerie: ?
  • Annie: Evelyn's daughter - has left drawings in her room of a man shooting other men who are laying in pools of blood.
  • Grandma Mazur: Moved in with her daughter (Stephanie's mother) and son-in-law after her husband goes to the big poker game in the sky. She makes going to funeral viewings a social occasions, has a gun and isn't afraid to use it, and is looking for a man with "working parts".
  • Jeanne Ellen Burrows: The female equivalent of Ranger. Works for another (higher class) bail bond company. Is tailing Evelyn's friends to get a lead on her.
  • Andy Bender: ?
  • Vinnie: Stephanie's cousin who is deviant and it's been rumored that he had a love affair with a duck and subsequently other farm animals.
  • Mabel Markowitz: ?
  • Dotty: Evelyn's childhood best friend, has helped Evelyn disappear, and is now at risk with her too young children.
  • Martin Paulson: A large man who is an FTA, and has problems staying balanced. When Stephanie brings him in hand cuffed with foot shackles, he falls in the parking lot and rolls around like a beached whale.
  • Mary Alice: ?
  • Stephanie Plum: Our comic heroine. After losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a local department store, she blackmails her cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a job as a bounty hunter to make ends meet.
  • Steven Soder: Evelyn's wayward husband - a mean man who drove Evelyn to drink and use prescription pills to get through the day.
  • Hector: A friend of Ranger, who installs a security system in Stephanie's apartment.
  • Evanovich: Author
  • Clinton: Masked hoodlam
  • Oliver: ?
  • Darrow: Muscle man for Abruzzi - also drives around in a green SUV scaring Stephanie Plum. Dresses in a plastic presidential mask.
  • Carol: Secretary/Receptionist at Vinnie's Bail Bond office
  • Mrs. Karwatt: An elderly neighbor in Stephanie's apartment building
  • Amanda: ?
  • Ranger: A bounty hunter for Vinnie. He is a former military man, invests in stocks and real estate, and has easy access to new cars with questionable titles. Mentors Stephanie, and helps her apprehend FTA's.
  • Benito Ramirez: A former heavy-weight, now dead man, beat and cut Lula in a previous book and left her on Stephanie's fire escape near death. Stephanie shot Ramirez in self-defense after several harrowing encounters. Abruzzi financed Ramirez, and they are alike in their need to scare and hurt people for control, especially women.
  • Carl: ?
  • Bob: Dog foisted on Stephanie and left with her. He eats anything and everything, and Morelli and Stephanie share "custody" of Bob. When he eats really horrible things, Stephanie drags him over to Joyce's yard to leave poop and vomit on her yard.
  • Mrs. Palowski: Add a description of this character.
  • Angie
  • Mr. Wolesky
  • Dickie
  • Benny
  • Laura
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