

For ten years, she attempted to write the Great American Novel, finishing three manuscripts that she was unable to sell. To learn the art of writing dialog, Evanovich took lessons in improv acting. In her thirties, she began writing novels. When Evanovich had children, she chose to become a housewife like her mother. After attending South River High School, she became the first in her family to attend college when she enrolled at Douglass College, part of Rutgers University, to study art. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages.Įvanovich is a second-generation American born in South River, New Jersey, to a machinist and a housewife. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. Will the ticking clock stop at the stroke of twelve, or will a stranger in the wind find a way to stop Stephanie Plum forever? Filled with Janet Evanovich's trademark action, nonstop adventure, and sharp humor, "Twelve Sharp" shows why her novels have been called "hot stuff" ("The New York Times"), and Evanovich herself "the master" ("San Francisco Examiner").Janet Evanovich (née Schneider April 22, 1943) is an American writer. When Stephanie Plum and Ranger get too close for comfort, vice cop Joe Morelli (her on-again, off-again boyfriend) steps in.

And now, the two are working together to find a killer, rescue a missing child, and stop a lunatic from raising the body count. Ranger needs Stephanie for more reasons than he can say. The action turns deadly serious, and Stephanie goes from hunting skips to hunting a murderer. The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious connection to dark and dangerous Carlos Manoso street name, Ranger. While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking "her." Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet
