Janet Evanovich

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Janet Evanovich (2010)

Janet Evanovich (born April 22, 1943 in South River , New Jersey ) is an American writer, especially of detective novels. She has sold over 75 million books.

Life

After graduating from Rutgers University , Evanovich became a housewife and mother. First attempts at writing romance novels followed . After initial rejections, she initially worked as a secretary for a temporary employment agency, before finally a publisher noticed her in 1987; within a few years, Evanovich published a dozen humorous romance novels in various series.

In 1994 she switched to the crime genre. Her heroine became the ex-lingerie saleswoman and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. With her humorous style and her succinctly bizarre characters, Janet Evanovich was immediately very well received, especially in England, where the first three Plum novels were consecutively awarded three different Dagger Awards by the British crime authors' association . She has also received two awards from American booksellers.

In 2002, Evanovich published a new version of an old romance novel that she wrote with Charlotte Hughes. In the meantime they have continued it together on a series of romantic adventure stories . Another crime series followed in 2004 with the Metro Girl from Miami.

Works

Single novels

  • Give rubber baby ( The Rocky Road to Romance , 2004)
  • Love Overboard ( Love Overboard , 2005)
  • Cheers baby ( Hot Stuff , with Leanne Banks, 2007)

Lizzy Tucker

  • Sugar Sweet Deadly Sins ( Wicked Appetite ) May 2012
  • Small sins get love ( Wicked Business ) May 2013
  • Can sin be love ( Wicked Charms ) June 2015

Jamie Swift & Max Holt

together with Charlotte Hughes

  • Love for Beginners ( Full House , 2002)
  • Kissfest ( Full Tilt , 2003)
  • Love with Shot ( Full Speed , 2003)
  • Totally Shot ( Full Blast , 2004)
  • Every Kiss a Hit ( Full Bloom , 2005)
  • Volle Kanne ( Full Scoop , 2006)

Metro Girl - Alex - "Barney" - Barnaby

  • Lowered ( Metro Girl , 2004)
  • I brake for men too ( Motor Mouth , 2006)

Stephanie Plum

Novels

  • Once is never ( One for the Money , 1994) - John Creasey Memorial Dagger 1995, Dilys Award 1995
  • Twice is once too much ( Two for the Dough , 1996) - Last Laugh Dagger 1996
  • One, two, three and you're free ( Three to Get Deadly , 1997) - Silver Dagger 1997, Dilys Award 1998
  • All good things come in four ( Four to Score , 1998)
  • Four Murders and a Wedding Feast ( High Five , 1999)
  • Deadly Temptation ( Hot Six , 2000)
  • Right in the Heart ( Seven Up , 2001)
  • Hot Booty ( Hard Eight , 2002)
  • Hit and miss ( To the Nines , 2003)
  • Exchange of Kisses ( Ten Big Ones , 2004)
  • The Chaos Queen ( Eleven on Top 2005)
  • Caught cold ( Twelve Sharp 2006)
  • A Real Treasure ( Lean Mean Thirteen 2007)
  • Kiss with Funny ( Fearless Fourteen 2008)
  • Kiss with Sauce ( Finger Lickin 'Fifteen June 2011)
  • The Best to Kiss ( Sizzling Sixteen June 10, 2010)
  • Kiss each other who can ( Smokin 'Seventeen June 2011)
  • Kiss Hawaii ( Explosive Eighteen November 2011)
  • Kiss and Let Kiss ( Notorious Nineteen November 2012)
  • Kiss You Happy ( Takedown Twenty 2013)
  • Together you kiss less alone ( Top Secret Twenty One 2015)
  • Pretty Best Kisses ( Tricky Twenty Two 2015)
  • Now is Kiss ( Turbo Twenty-Three 2016)

The cover pictures of the German editions are illustrated by the illustrator Natascha Römer . She also created the illustrations on the author's official German publisher's website.

outside of the series:

  • The Last Peep from The Plot Chickens German As clear as glass from Under the Parasol - short story
  • The Winter Wonder Man ( Visions of Sugar Plums , 2002) - Christmas short novel published in November 2009
  • Liebeswunder und Männerzauber ( Plum Lovin ' , 2007) - Short story for Valentine's Day published in January 2011
  • Lucky clover and leprechaun kisses ( Plum Lucky ) - St. Patrick's Day story published in February 2012
  • Prince Charming and Weather Frogs ("Plum Spooky") - Halloween story that doesn't take place on Halloween was released in March 2013

The figure

Stephanie Plum is the protagonist of Janet Evanovich's most successful book series. She is around 30 years old, comes from Chambersburg, or Burg for short, a district of Trenton and, as a result of her Italian ancestors on her father's side, has brown, shoulder-length curls and an inexhaustible repertoire of provocative hand movements; as the legacy of her mother of Hungarian origin, blue eyes and the talent of being able to eat as much birthday cake as [she] wants and still get the top button of [her] jeans . Her job is primarily to blame for her chaotic life: Stephanie is a bounty hunter or, to put it politely, a bond detective . After she quits her job as a lingerie buyer through no fault of her own, she blackmailed her cousin Vinnie with her knowledge of his perverse disposition - Vinnie likes medieval torture instruments and was once in love with a duck - for a job in his bond office. In the latter, Vinnie gives many Burg criminals bail, giving them the opportunity to spend the time between their arrest and the court date at home instead of in prison. As soon as someone chooses not to be present at the trial, the court threatens to withhold Vinnie's money in case he doesn't track down the fugitive within a short period of time, with Stephanie coming in.

In the first novel in the series, Once is never , she is put on Joe Morelli , who tried to look under her skirt in elementary school, years later robbed her of her virginity in a bakery and is now a policeman who is suspected of To have shot at an unarmed person. Morelli is anything but enthusiastic about the idea of ​​being arrested and therefore makes life difficult for Stephanie. The complete beginner is not only completely overwhelmed with the arrest of this policeman, but also with most of the other cases, which is why her ranger , whose real name is Ricardo Carlos Manoso, American of Cuban descent, is on hand more than once. While the relationship with Morelli changes over the course of the novels from friendship to casual sex to a state of serious affection without serious intentions to marry, a bond with Ranger develops parallel to this, which, to Stephanie's irritation, goes beyond the purely professional. As if her complete confusion about the two men in her life wasn't enough, Stephanie's everyday chaos is joined by the following people:

  1. Grandma Mazur , whose social life consists in a disturbingly large part of attending wakes, hating finding the coffin lid closed
  2. her parents, with father Frank waiting impatiently for his mother-in-law to bless the time and mother Ellen never tired of crossing herself in the face of Stephanie's embarrassing missteps,
  3. Vinnie's filing clerk, Lula , a former prostitute, who from the second novel, Twice is once too much , is a constant in Plum's life,
  4. Vinnie's secretary Connie , a large bust Italian woman with ties to Joey Testament and other mobsters,
  5. Stephanie's sister Valerie , whose perfection, which has been pesky since early childhood, turns into a sufficiently catastrophic state to Stephanie's satisfaction,
  6. Bob , the dog who eats anything that isn't nailed down
  7. Joyce Barnhardt , her archenemy, since she jumped into bed with Stephanie's ex-husband or, more precisely, on the dining table and who now also works for Vinnie
  8. Rex , Stephanie's hamster and suggestion box, who sleeps in an empty soup can, feeds on leftover marshmallows and tasty cakes and almost becomes a victim in a novel
  9. an unspecified number of wrecked cars on a daily growing list of Stephanie's new friends.

filming

The first novel in the series, Once is never , was filmed in 2012 under the same title by director Julie Anne Robinson with Katherine Heigl in the lead role. Joe Morelli and Ranger played Jason O'Mara and Daniel Sunjata .

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ As of 2011
  2. ↑ Janet Evanovich: Exchange of kisses . Wilhelm Goldman Verlag, Munich 2006, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Once is never (2012) . On: IMDb . Retrieved March 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Evanovich, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH South River , New Jersey, USA