Janet Evanovich
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Janet Evanovich is an American author, born April 22, 1943 in South River, New Jersey.
She is best known as the creator of the character Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who loses her job and becomes a bounty hunter to fill her fridge.
Biography
After studying at Douglass College, part of Rutgers University in New Jersey, Janet Evanovich decided to go into writing. Sending many manuscripts to several editors, she received as many refusals back.Returning to be a secretary, she received a call by an editor interested in Second Chance at Love, a romance novel today forgotten by all. After twelve books of the same kind, she took a new approach and launched into detective novels.
She builds Stephanie Plum with a well rhythmed style, strong characters as the funny Grandma Mazur. These adventures have been very successful.
Bibliography
The Stephanie Plum series
- One For the Money (1994)
- Two For the Dough (1996)
- Three to Get Deadly (1997)
- Four to Score (1998)
- High Five (1999)
- Hot Six (2000)
- Seven Up (2001)
- Hard Eight (2002)
- Visions of Sugar Plums (2003)
- To the Nines (2003)
- Ten Big Ones (2004)
- Eleven on Top (2005)
- Twelve Sharp (2006)
Metro Series
- Metro Girl
- Motor Mouth (2006)
Full Series
(written with Charlotte Hughes)- Full House (Re-released in expanded form in 2002)
- Full Tilt
- Full Speed
- Full Blast
- Full Bloom
- Full Scoop
Romance Novels
(originally written under the name Steffie Hall)- Hero at Large
- Foul Play
- The Grand Finale
- Thanksgiving
- Manhunt
- Love Overboard (originally Ivan Takes a Wife)
- Back to the Bedroom
- Smitten
- Wife for Hire
- Rocky Road to Romance
- Naughty Neighbor
External links
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