Publication Order of Stephanie Plum Between the Numbers Books
Visions of Sugar Plums
2002
Plum Lovin’
2007
Plum Lucky
2008
Plum Spooky
2009
Publication Order of Fox and O’Hare Books
The Heist (With: Lee Goldberg)
2013
The Chase (With: Lee Goldberg)
2014
The Job (With: Lee Goldberg)
2014
The Scam (With: Lee Goldberg)
2015
The Pursuit (With: Lee Goldberg)
2016
The Big Kahuna (With: Peter Evanovich)
2019
The Bounty (With: Steve Hamilton)
2021
Publication Order of Lizzy and Diesel Books
Wicked Appetite
2010
Wicked Business
2012
Wicked Charms (With: Phoef Sutton)
2015
Publication Order of Knight and Moon Books
Curious Minds (With: Phoef Sutton)
2016
Dangerous Minds
2017
Publication Order of Gabriela Rose Books
The Recovery Agent
2022
The King’s Ransom
2025
Publication Order of Barnaby and Hooker Books
Metro Girl
2004
Motor Mouth
2006
Publication Order of Full Books
Full House
1989
Full Tilt (With: Charlotte Hughes)
2003
Full Speed (With: Charlotte Hughes)
2003
Full Blast (With: Charlotte Hughes)
2004
Full Bloom (With: Charlotte Hughes)
2005
Full Scoop (With: Charlotte Hughes)
2006
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Hero at Large
1987
Thanksgiving
1988
The Grand Finale
1988
Manhunt
1988
Foul Play
1989
Ivan Takes a Wife / Love Overboard
1989
Back to the Bedroom
1989
Smitten
1990
Wife for Hire
1990
The Rocky Road to Romance
1991
Naughty Neighbor
1992
Hot Stuff (With: Leanne Banks)
2007
Love in a Nutshell (With: Dorien Kelly)
2012
The Husband List (With: Dorien Kelly)
2013
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Pros and Cons (With: Lee Goldberg)
2013
The Shell Game (With: Lee Goldberg)
2014
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Troublemaker (With: Alex Evanovich)
2010
Troublemaker 2 (With: Alex Evanovich)
2010
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
How I Write (With: Ina Yalof)
2006
About Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is an American novelist, born in South River, New Jersey, in 1943, best known for her comic mysteries about Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton who becomes a bounty hunter after losing her job. The series began with “One for the Money” in 1994 and reaches its thirty-second novel in 2026.
The daughter of a machinist and a housewife, Evanovich was the first in her family to attend college, studying art at Douglass College, part of Rutgers University. She began writing in her thirties and spent ten years on manuscripts she could not sell before trying romance. Her second romance manuscript was bought for 2,000 dollars and published in 1987 as “Hero at Large” under the pen name Steffie Hall. She went on to write category romances for Bantam Loveswept under her own name.
After her twelfth romance she found she preferred writing action to love scenes, and took eighteen months to plan a new kind of book. Inspired by the Robert De Niro film “Midnight Run”, she made her heroine a bounty hunter and shadowed bond enforcement agents for research. “One for the Money” won the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger and the Dilys Award. “Hot Six” (2000) was her first number one on the New York Times bestseller list. A film of “One for the Money” starring Katherine Heigl was released in 2012.
Alongside the numbered Plum novels there are four “between the numbers” holiday books featuring the character Diesel, who went on to lead the Lizzy and Diesel series set in Salem, Massachusetts. Evanovich has written several series with co-authors: the Fox and O’Hare capers with Lee Goldberg, about an FBI agent paired with a con man; the Full series with Charlotte Hughes; and Knight and Moon with Phoef Sutton. The Barnaby and Hooker books, which began with “Metro Girl” (2004), continued as graphic novels.
Her newest series follows the recovery agent Gabriela Rose in “The Recovery Agent” (2022) and “The King’s Ransom” (2025). The next Stephanie Plum novel, “Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo”, is due on 10 November 2026.
