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- Hardcover:
320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 9.50 x
6.36
- Publisher: St.
Martin's Press; ; (June 18, 2002)
- ISBN:
0312265859
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Book
Description
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? J
anet
Evanovich's latest thriller proves that Hard Eight will never
be enough.
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
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