Hard Eight
- Authors: Janet Evanovich
- Series: Book 8 in the Stephanie Plum series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery
- Rank:Top 300 in Best Humorous Fiction on Amazon
- Rating: 4.6 based on 8,645 reviews
- Release Date: July 3, 2002
- Print length: 320 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Stephanie Plum, the bombshell bounty hunter from New Jersey, already has problems. Her relationship with Joe Morelli is so complicated it's now over. Plus, her attractive, if terrifying, mentor and tormentor Ranger has decided he's ready to collect his reward. But Steph can always count on her family to add to her troubles. When her mother and Grandma gang up to insist she finds their neighbour's missing granddaughter Evelyn and her child Annie, Steph can't refuse. Mabel Markowitz signed a custody bond guaranteeing Annie would stay in Trenton after her parents' divorce. Now Evelyn and Annie have vanished, Mabel will lose her house to True Blue Bail Bonds Agency. But following their trail is not simple. Where have they gone? What does property lord and war game fanatic, Eddie Abruzzi really want? And why is a glant rabbit stalking Steph?
Accolades
Praise for Hard Eight
Keeps up Evanovich's standards for over-the-top situations
As close to summer escapism as you can get. Evanovich hits a high note with her newest...a great addition to a well-stocked beach bag.
Evanovich has certainly come a long way since One for the Money; her latest Stephanie Plum mystery merits a one-day national laydown on June 18.
[A] must read...readers will want to finish this delightful work in one sitting.
The girl mercenary is as fresh as ever.
Just when you think the adventures of Plum and company can't get any funnier or more convoluted, Janet Evanovich proves you wrong-nobody does it better!
Hard Eight is most emphatically not Raymond Chandler but, like his work, a piece of finely crafted prose.
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