It’s also going to be hard to explain to Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, why she is spending late nights with Ranger, late nights with Lula and Randy Briggs-who are naked and afraid-and late nights keeping tabs on Grandma Mazur and her new fella. It’s going to be hard for Stephanie to keep her hands off all that ice cream, and even harder for her to keep her hands off Ranger. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body-frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans.Īs fate would have it, Stephanie’s mentor and occasional employer, Ranger, needs her to go undercover at the Bogart factory to find out who’s putting their employees on ice and sabotaging the business. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon.

In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. She and her half-retired husband, Pete, live in New Hampshire, and their children work full-time for Evanovich, Inc., her mother is their only client.Copy courtesy of Hachette AUS via NetGalley

Her niece Stephanie Evanovich, is also a writer. She often collaborates with other writers, including her daughter Alex. She is a bestselling writer, whose novels are loved for their sense of humor and playful, dynamic action. She wrote a romantic adventure “One for the Money”, the first Stephanie Plum mystery novel. She subsequently churned out nearly a dozen similarly themed books before growing restive and turning an eye toward the adventure genre. The book was published as Hero at Large in 1987 under the pseudonym Steffie Hall.

After a decade of abortive efforts to publish her stories, she had one of her romance novels accepted by Berkley Books for its Second Chance at Love imprint. After trying to write the Great American Novel, she shifted her focus to different tales and submitting them for publication. She became a homemaker following the births of their two children, Peter Jr. Having married Peter Evanovich, a mathematician from Rutgers University, the previous year, she joined him on his travels around the country while he worked for the U.S. She studied painting at Rutgers University’s Douglass College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1965. She is a second-generation borned in USA. Janet Schneider was born on 22 April 1943 in South River, New Jersey, where she raised.

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