Hard Eight

Evanovich, Janet

ISBN 10: 0747269629 / ISBN 13: 9780747269625

Published by Headline Book Publishing, London, 2002

About this Item

Some reading and cover creases, light shelf wear with tiny rubs to spine extremities, slight foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block, small ink tick mark to front endpaper. ; First UK trade paperback edition, first printing with full number line. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Chris Loader. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Stephanie Plum Novels; Vol. 8; 288 pages; Bombshell bounty hunter Stephanie Plum thinks she already has problems. With her complicated relationship with gorgeous cop Joe Morell apparently over, and possibly having called upon her mentor and tormentor Ranger once to often she has problems enough. But you can always rely on family to add to one's troubles, and her mother and grandmother want Stephanie to find the missing granddaughter and child of a neighbour as although Steph isn't a PI she's the nearest to one they know, even if they don't approve of her work. Mabel Markowitz signed a child custody bond and now might lose her house to a Bail Bond Agency. To add to Steph's problems there's another Ranger-trained babe working for the Bail Bond people, and why is a giant rabbit stalking her? Trade PB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hard Eight
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747269629
• ISBN 13: 9780747269625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Bombshell bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back on her Harley - so get ready for the ride of your life! Witty, fresh, and full of surprises, Janet Evanovich's most explosive thriller yet is Stephanie's best mis-adventure ever. As she spirals and tumbles through the frenetic and incendiary world of Plum, she can hardly catch her breath, let alone her man - even if she could decide which one to chase...

Review

In Hard Eight, Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn's grandmother homeless. Stephanie's first clue that there's more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a shady local businessman who warns her to butt out of the case. Stephanie doesn't scare easily, but when Abruzzi's henchmen leave a bag of snakes on her doorknob and tarantulas in her car, she has no choice but to call Ranger, the hunky man of mystery whom she already owes too many favors. Steph knows that Ranger will soon be calling in his marker, but with her ex- fiancé Joe Morelli out of the picture, that should be OK--shouldn't it? In the meantime, she's got other fugitives to catch, aided by the usual band of misfits, plus a bumbling correspondence-school lawyer who's developed the hots for Stephanie's sister, Valerie. And Steph's in for a surprise from her mother, who proves she's not above wielding a dangerous weapon to save her daughter's life.

Author Janet Evanovich has made a bold move in using a soupçon of child jeopardy to pull this series out of the comfortable but formulaic pattern it was threatening to fall into. It's still funny, and yes, some cars are destroyed, but now there's a real edge of darkness under the humor. Fans needn't fear, though: Jersey girl Stephanie is still full of sass and Tastykakes. --Barrie Trinkle