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Title details for Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich - Available

Hard Eight

#8 in series

by Janet Evanovich
Lorelei King
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The #1 bestselling phenomenon continues in the eighth Stephanie Plum novel. The stakes get higher, the crimes get nastier, the chases get faster, and the men get hotter.
This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets are aimed for her heart? And with the Plum and Morelli relationship looking rocky, is it time for Ranger to move in for the kill? Janet Evanovich's latest thriller proves that Hard Eight will never be enough.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Stephanie Plum

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 4, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593970659
      • File size: 96157 KB
      • Duration: 03:20:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Wisecracking bounty hunter Stephanie Plum searches for a mother who has broken a child custody bond and fled with her young daughter. The child's grandmother secured the bond and is about to lose her home. When Plum encounters a businessman/gangster named Abruzzi, a frustrated military man who tortures and plays mind games to get what he wants, the war games begin--with Plum as hostage. Lorelei King excels with this multiplicity of characters, seamlessly flowing from Plum's take-command voice to Abruzzi's Jersey accent. King's screams of terror when poisonous snakes are let loose in Plum's apartment and tarantulas appear in her car are fearsome. This sassy story entertains to the end. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      The Stephanie Plum novels feel as if the world of Patricia Cornwell has been invaded by Bridget Jones, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Here bail bondswoman (read bounty hunter) Stephanie Plum is trying in her usual inept way to track down the normal (read dislikable going on poisonous) bail jumpers with her irresistible sidekick, Lula, a large black former hooker. When Plum undertakes, as a favor, to try to find a missing child, she gets crosswise with an ugly character called Eddie Abruzzi. Lorelei King excels at a cross- section of working-class New Jersey eccentrics as broad as the trunk of a redwood. Thoroughly entertaining. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Stephanie Plum's life as a New Jersey bounty hunter could easily be described as "over the top." Her family, business colleagues, and the bail jumpers she pursues are unpredictable, wacky, highly original, and often dangerous. Readers love the series for just these reasons. For the audiobook, it's surely tempting to play the characters' idiosyncrasies to the hilt, as C.J. Critt does in her performance. She knows this cast well, as she has recorded six mysteries in Evanovich's series. Every conversation and outrageous circumstance is presented full-tilt, and the style is entertaining, in small doses. However, over the course of hours of listening, it's exhausting. If she could dial back the energy just a bit, the cleverness of Evanovich's writing and the quirky characters would still shine through, and the listening experience would be better. R.F.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 20, 2002
      The menace is more personal for Trenton's favorite bounty hunter and the energy more manic in this latest outing than in last year's Seven Up. As a favor to her mother's next-door neighbor, Mabel Markowitz, Stephanie agrees to check up on the lady's granddaughter, Evelyn Soder, who has suddenly taken off with her little girl, Annie, leaving behind a child custody bond against Mabel's house. The son-in-law is a bad guy who lost his bar to Eddie Abruzzi, a very nasty character who owns Evelyn's building. Soon someone in a bunny suit is trailing Stephanie, her car is blown up, her apartment infiltrated and a dead body appears on her couch. She calls in her associate, Ranger, the gorgeous and mysterious Cuban bond agent, while her sometime boyfriend, Morelli the cop, also gets on the case—a real doozy for which she's not getting paid. On the home front, ever-raunchy Grandma Mazur is eager to assist. Sister Valerie and kids have moved back in as well, so there's nowhere but the couch for Stephanie and one bathroom for all. Valerie is inexplicably attracted to Evelyn's goofy lawyer, who's been tagging along with Stephanie and the ever-outrageous file clerk and ex-hooker Lula, further complicating this twisted case. Life in the Burg takes on a sinister turn with serious results. Evanovich does it again, delivering an even more suspenseful and more outrageous turn with the unstoppable Stephanie, heroine of all those who have to live on peanut butter until the next check comes through. Waiting for nine will be tough. Agent, Robert Gottlieb. (One-day laydown June 18)Forecast:
      Seven Up landed on most bestseller lists at #1 first week out, not only because of the author's popularity but also because of clever positioning of on-sale date by St. Martin's. Whether or not the house can repeat the trick, expect huge sales for this title.

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  • English

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