The women are opposites, but they both have charm in spades.

Unlike Plum, who hangs out in New Jersey and keeps her gun in a cookie jar, Rose is a globe-trotting fashionista who expertly handles weapons. She’s written romance novels and adventure and mystery series, including the Fox and O’Hare and the Lizzy and Diesel books, and the wildly popular Stephanie Plum series (28 installments and counting), about a New Jersey bounty hunter with a tangled love life-and a weakness for junk food (just like Evanovich). “She’s my Indiana Jones.”Įvanovich’s books have sold more than 90 million copies, according to Atria, and have been translated into 40 languages.

“I probably enjoyed writing this one more than any other,” Evanovich says of the book, which finds Gabriela traversing jungles in Peru and Costa Rica. It centers on Gabriela Rose, a treasure hunter for hire-and a descendant of the pirate Blackbeard-whose sexy ex-husband routinely complicates her life. She signed a four-book deal, said to be for eight figures, with Atria in 2020, and in March 2022 she’s releasing The Recovery Agent, the first book in a new series. It’s good.”Įvanovich, 78, has been making moves lately. “At this point I just follow my grandkids around the country,” she says. She moved from Florida to Chapel Hill to be closer to her daughter, Alex, and her grandson she also has a condo in Hawaii, where her son, Peter, and his children live. I’m not equipped for video.” The author is in her bedroom, surrounded by boxes, at a makeshift writing desk, her fluffy white dog at her feet. Read at your own risk in public places.'I just bought a house in North Carolina and I have absolutely no furniture,” Janet Evanovich says via Zoom. The whole gang's here for mirth and mayhem. Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who's missing after arguing with his garbage company homicidal rapist Benito Ramirez is back, quoting scripture and stalking Stephanie vice cop Joe Morelli has a box of condoms with Stephanie's name on it and Stephanie's afraid Ranger has his finger on her trigger. But hey, nobody's perfect! Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. Mass Market Paperback in Good (G) condition. Please see our guide to book conditions for more details.

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