Author Janet Evanovich explains her appeal Hartford-bound writer tells why we love bounty hunter Stephanie Plum
Stephanie Plum has been a bounty hunter in 24 novels by Janet Evanovich. In her 25th Plum novel, “Look Alive TwentyFive,” Plum takes on a second, unlikely job: the manager of a deli, supervising a comically mismatched and disorganized staff.
Plum says she stinks at her bountyhunting job. She stinks worse as a deli manager. But there’s a reason for her career shift: a serial abductor is on the loose, and his victims are all managers at this deli. For her new adventure, Stephanie drags along her friends – Morelli, Ranger, Lula – and acquires a few more.
And by the end of the story, it’s clear there will be a 26th book (It will be called “Twisted Twenty-Six.”)
“Look Alive Twenty Five” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 311 pp., $28) hits bookstores on Nov. 13. On Nov. 14, Evanovich comes to Hartford to discuss her publishing career in an event presented by the Mark Twain House & Museum. Gina Barreca will be the host of the evening.
But in advance of the event, we chatted with Evanovich about her book series. community and law and order.
I’m never going to get invited on Oprah. I never make people cry or give them deep thoughts. I’m a shallow author. My job is entertainment and to put forth things that are positive and realistic.
Her family is not perfect either, but that’s what life is. … Her grandfather would like to shoot her grandmother and her grandmother is two cans short of a case and her mother drinks too much. … But at the end of the day they are there for Stephanie.