After graduating from South River High School she went on to attend Douglass College, part of Rutgers University. Although there is plenty of romance and comedy in the books, they are primarily modern mysteries with an outrageous cast of secondary characters that add down to earth humor.Įvanovich became the first in her family to attend college.

The heroine, Stephanie Plum becomes a bounty hunter in her hometown of Trenton, New Jersey by bribing her pervert cousin Vinnie for a job after she is laid off as a lingerie buyer. Each Plum book since that time has been named by a fan. After the third book in the series, Evanovich started running contests for her readers to suggest names for the next book. She later struck gold with her popular ‘Stephanie Plum’ Series – the twenty second book in the series, (‘Tricky Twenty Two’) will be released this November. Using the pen name Steffie Hall, she published her several short romance novels. She routinely appears on both the New York Times and Amazon Bestseller Lists and has a devoted following of readers. Janet Evanovich was born Janet Schneider on Apin South River, New Jersey.

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). 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. SOON, THE CHASE IS ONRanger needs Stephanie for more reasons than he can say. NEXT, SOMEBODY DIESThe action turns deadly serious, and Stephanie goes from hunting skips to hunting a murderer. Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet!FIRST A STRANGER APPEARSWhile chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her.THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETSThe 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.

Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich