Janet Evanovich

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Janet Evanovich
  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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About the Author

Janet Schneider was born on 22 April 1943 in South River, New Jersey, where she raised. She is a second-generation borned in USA. She studied painting at Rutgers University’s Douglass College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1965. 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. Navy. She became a homemaker following the births of their two children, Peter Jr. and Alex. After trying to write the Great American Novel, she shifted her focus to different tales and submitting them for publication. 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. The book was published as Hero at Large in 1987 under the pseudonym Steffie Hall. She subsequently churned out nearly a dozen similarly themed books before growing restive and turning an eye toward the adventure genre. She wrote a romantic adventure “One for the Money”, the first Stephanie Plum mystery novel. She is a bestselling writer, whose novels are loved for their sense of humor and playful, dynamic action. She often collaborates with other writers, including her daughter Alex. Her niece Stephanie Evanovich, is also a writer.

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.

Full Series List in Order

Alexandra Barnaby

1 - Metro Girl (Nov-2004)
2 - Motor Mouth (Oct-2006)
3 - Troublemaker (Jul-2010)
4 - Troublemaker 2 (Dec-2010)

Elsie Hawkins

1 - Back to the Bedroom (Nov-1989)
2 - Smitten (Apr-1990)
3 - Wife for Hire (Sep-1990)
4 - The Rocky Road to Romance (Mar-1991)

A Gabriella Rose Novel

1 - The Recovery Agent (Mar-2022)
2 - A King's Ransom (Nov-2025)

Stephanie Plum

0.5 - The Last Peep (Dec-1999)
1 - One for the Money (Sep-1994)
2 - Two for the Dough (Jan-1996)
3 - Three To Get Deadly (Feb-1997)
4 - Four To Score (Jul-1998)
5 - High Five (Jul-1999)
6 - Hot Six (Jun-2000)
7 - Seven Up (Jun-2001)
8 - Hard Eight (Jun-2002)
8.5 - Visions of Sugar Plums (Nov-2002)
9 - To the Nines (Jul-2003)
10 - Ten Big Ones (Jun-2004)
11 - Eleven on Top (Jun-2005)
12 - Twelve Sharp (Jul-2006)
12.5 - Plum Lovin' (Jan-2007)
13 - Lean Mean Thirteen (Jun-2007)
13.5 - Plum Lucky (Jan-2008)
14 - Fearless Fourteen (Jun-2008)
14.5 - Plum Spooky (Jan-2009)
15 - Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Jul-2009)
16 - Sizzling Sixteen (Jul-2010)
17 - Smokin' Seventeen (Jul-2011)
18 - Explosive Eighteen (Nov-2011)
19 - Notorious Nineteen (Nov-2012)
20 - Takedown Twenty (Nov-2013)
21 - Top Secret Twenty-One (Jun-2014)
22 - Tricky Twenty-Two (Nov-2015)
23 - Turbo Twenty-Three (Nov-2016)
24 - Hardcore Twenty-Four (Nov-2017)
25 - Look Alive Twenty-Five (Nov-2018)
26 - Twisted Twenty-Six (Nov-2019)
27 - Fortune and Glory (Nov-2020)
28 - Game On (Nov-2021)
29 - Going Rogue (Nov-2022)
30 - Dirty Thirty (Nov-2023)
31 - Now or Never (Nov-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Wicked Lizzy & Diesel

1 - Wicked Appetite (Sep-2010)
2 - Wicked Business (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • The Grand Finale

    Loveswept - 254

    Divorcée Lingonberry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when Berry climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn't prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window -- or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer's pizza...a...

  • Thanksgiving

    Loveswept - 289

    When Megan Murphy discovered a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she meant to give his careless owner a piece of her mind -- but Dr. Patrick Hunter was too attractive to stay mad at for long! With his husky bedroom voice he teased ...

  • Manhunt

    Loveswept - 303

    Alexandra Scott: Wilderness Woman. It had a terrific ring to it, but Alex felt a sudden twinge of terror. She'd traded in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a cabin in the Alaska woods, and there was no turning back! She'd wanted to esca...

  • Ivan Takes a Wife // Love Overboard

    Loveswept - 343

    Sinfully handsome schooner captain Ivan Rasmussen deserved to be called Ivan the Terrible, Stephanie Lowe decided. First he'd sold her a haunted house, and now he was laughing at her Calamity Jane cooking! She'd only agreed to work one voyage of his ...

  • Back to the Bedroom

    Elsie Hawkins - 1
    Loveswept - 362

    For months he'd thought of her as the Mystery Woman, draped in a black velvet cloak, with outrageous red curls, flawless skin, and carrying a large, odd case--but the night David Dodd saw a helicopter drop a chunk of metal through the roof of his lov...

  • Smitten

    Elsie Hawkins - 2
    Loveswept - 392

    Single mom Lizabeth Kane wasn't exactly construction-worker material, but she truly wanted a job -- and Matt Hallahan found her radiant smile utterly irresistible! When the virile hunk with the perfectly tanned chest agreed to hire her as a laborer, ...

  • Wife for Hire

    Elsie Hawkins - 3
    Loveswept - 422

    The Prospective Husband with a Racy Past. . . . Hank Mallone spotted trouble when she sat down and said she'd marry him! Maggie Toone was a tempting firecracker who'd make his life delightful hell if he let her pretend to be his wife in order to i...

  • The Rocky Road to Romance

    Elsie Hawkins - 4
    Loveswept - 460

    When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ offered to take on the temporary job of traffic reporter, Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn Daisy Adams down! Perhaps he knew that sharing the close quarters of a car with her for hours w...

  • Naughty Neighbor

    Loveswept - 537

    PETE -- Trouble in His Eyes, and in His Wicked Grin.... He was a handsome hell-raiser, a reckless crusader in low-slung jeans -- and he was driving Louisa Brannigan crazy! Pete Streeter made terrible coffee, snatched her newspaper, and listened th...



  • One for the Money

    Stephanie Plum - 1

    Trenton native Stephanie Plum is out of work, out of money, and her car's in repo-hell. So who does a hardly working girl turn to when the going gets tough? Meet cousin Vinnie, bail bondsman. Stephanie figures it's nice work if you can get it - shagg...

  • Two for the Dough

    Stephanie Plum - 2

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back, packing a whole lot of attitude - not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, and a .38 Smith & Wesson. This time around, she's on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working-class burg of Trenton, New Jerse...

  • Three To Get Deadly

    Stephanie Plum - 3

    A saintly old candy-store owner is on the lam - and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And wit...

  • Four To Score

    Stephanie Plum - 4

    Stephanie Plum, Trenton New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back - and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite music...

  • High Five

    Stephanie Plum - 5

    In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle - and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won...

  • The Last Peep

    in First Cases Volume 3
    Stephanie Plum - 0.5

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Hot Six

    Stephanie Plum - 6

    HOT DAY Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the mysterious former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger). He's the man who taught her everything about fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows ...

  • Seven Up

    Stephanie Plum - 7

    BLOWN UP All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight - and raising hell. How else can Stephanie explain the bullet-ridd...

  • Hard Eight

    Stephanie Plum - 8

    HARD UP Fugitive apprehension agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding ...

  • Visions of Sugar Plums

    Stephanie Plum - 8.5

    THE WORLD OF PLUM HAS NEVER BEEN MERRIER! It's five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with stagger...



  • To the Nines

    Stephanie Plum - 9

    Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary ...

  • Ten Big Ones

    Stephanie Plum - 10

    AND NOW, TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN EVER BEFORE... "I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing." Swing...

  • Metro Girl

    Alexandra Barnaby - 1

    "Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big sister Alex heads for Miami, Bill's last known sighting, on a harrowing hunt to save her brother ... and maybe the world. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since...

  • Eleven on Top

    Stephanie Plum - 11

    Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something s...

  • Twelve Sharp

    Stephanie Plum - 12

    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 APPEARS While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie disco...

  • Motor Mouth

    Alexandra Barnaby - 2

    Those Metro maniacs Alexandra " Barney" Barnaby and NASCAR driver Sam Hooker are back! A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little something about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salescl...

  • Plum Lovin'

    Stephanie Plum - 12.5

    WATCH YOUR BACK... Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum's apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie - and he's not taking no for an answer. LOOK BOTH WAYS... Annie Hart is a 'relationship ex...

  • Lean Mean Thirteen

    Stephanie Plum - 13

    New secrets, old flames, and hidden agendas are about to send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most outrageous adventure yet! MISTAKE #1 Dickie Orr Stephanie was married to him for about fifteen minutes before she caught him cheating on h...

  • Plum Lucky

    Stephanie Plum - 13.5

    LOOKING TO GET LUCKY? Stephanie Plum is back between-the-numbers and she's looking to get lucky in an Atlantic City hotel room, in a Winnebago, and with a brown-eyed stud who has stolen her heart. Stephanie Plum has a way of attracting danger, luna...

  • Fearless Fourteen

    Stephanie Plum - 14

    Personal vendettas. Hidden treasure. A monkey named Carl. In her latest adventure, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is as FEARLESS as ever... THE CRIME: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and d...



  • Plum Spooky

    Stephanie Plum - 14.5

    Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get PLUM SPOOKY... Trenton, New Jersey-based bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is the all-American girl stuck in an uncomfortable job, succeeding on luck and tenacity. On her current ...

  • Finger Lickin' Fifteen

    Stephanie Plum - 15

    Unbuckle your belt and pull up a chair. It's the spiciest, sauciest, most rib-sticking Plum yet... RECIPE FOR DISASTER Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head -- literally. THROW IN ...

  • Love Overboard

    She's been called "side-splittingly funny" (Publishers Weekly), "a blast of fresh air" (Washington Post), and "a winner" (Glamour). She is, of course, Janet Evanovich, the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum mys...

  • Sizzling Sixteen

    Stephanie Plum - 16

    Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a lucky bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up ...

  • Wicked Appetite

    Wicked Lizzy & Diesel - 1

    LIZZY TUCKER has inherited a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, taken a new job as pastry chef for Dazzle's Bakery in Salem, and set her sights on a comfortable future. The comfortable future and any hope for normalcy evaporates when dark-h...

  • Smokin' Seventeen

    Stephanie Plum - 17

    Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, ...

  • Explosive Eighteen

    Stephanie Plum - 18

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich. Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she’s kne...

  • Wicked Business

    Wicked Lizzy & Diesel - 2

    Lizzy Tucker’s once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel. When Harvard University E...

  • Notorious Nineteen

    Stephanie Plum - 19

    New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don't just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don't do what Tiki tells you to do. After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail...

  • Takedown Twenty

    Stephanie Plum - 20

    Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn't take him down, he may take her out. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny...



  • Top Secret Twenty-One

    Stephanie Plum - 21

    Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than ...

  • Tricky Twenty-Two

    Stephanie Plum - 22

    Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world’s greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she’s being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zooke...

  • Turbo Twenty-Three

    Stephanie Plum - 23

    In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty ...

  • Hardcore Twenty-Four

    Stephanie Plum - 24

    Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-forth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey... Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her ...

  • Look Alive Twenty-Five

    Stephanie Plum - 25

    There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clu...

  • Twisted Twenty-Six

    Stephanie Plum - 26

    Stephanie Plum's career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, and her love life is a hopeless tangle. In order to save someone dear to her, she'll have to straighten things out in Twisted Twenty-Six the late...

  • Fortune and Glory

    Stephanie Plum - 27

    The twenty-seventh entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series isn’t just the biggest case of Stephanie Plum’s career. It’s the adventure of a lifetime. When Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding n...

  • Game On

    Stephanie Plum - 28

    Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a new kind of criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night b...

  • The Recovery Agent

    A Gabriella Rose Novel - 1

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor. Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a...

  • Going Rogue

    Stephanie Plum - 29

    Stephanie Plum breaks the rules, flirts with disaster, and shows who’s boss in the latest smash hit from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on t...



  • Dirty Thirty

    Stephanie Plum - 30

    Janet Evanovich, the “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), is in top form as she sends Stephanie Plum on the trail of a stolen stash of dirty diamonds in this instant #1 New York Times bestseller.Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s ha...

  • Now or Never

    Stephanie Plum - 31

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe latest Stephanie Plum novel from #1 New York Times bestseller and “the most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times) Janet Evanovich.She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie ...

  • A King's Ransom

    A Gabriella Rose Novel - 2

    “Thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes you on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent.Gabriela Rose, rec...

Award-Winning Books by Janet Evanovich

Hard Eight
2002 All About Romance Reader Award -- Most Disappointing Read
Hot Six
2000 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romantic Novel outside the Romance Genre
One for the Money
1995 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel
Smokin' Seventeen
2011 Goodreads Choice Award -- Mystery & Thriller
Three To Get Deadly
1998 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel


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Janet Evanovich has published 52 books.

The next book by Janet Evanovich, A King's Ransom, will be published in November 2025.

The first book by Janet Evanovich, The Grand Finale, was published in May 1988.

Yes. Janet Evanovich has 4 series.
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