Hard Eight
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 348
- ISBN-13
- 9780312983864
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hard Eight is by Janet Evanovich, the eighth novel in the Stephanie Plum series, published in 2002. In the reading order it follows Seven Up and precedes Visions of Sugar Plums.
Key facts about Hard Eight
Janet Evanovich wrote Hard Eight, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2002. The book has 348 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312983864 to find the main one.
Hard Eight is book 8 of 36 in the Stephanie Plum series. The series has 36 published books. However, the series starts with One for the Money (1994). Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 November 2026.
Additionally, Janet Evanovich writes Elsie Hawkins, Barnaby and Hooker and Lizzy and Diesel, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our romance, mystery and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo is the latest published Janet Evanovich book on file, from 10 November 2026.
About Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich spent a decade collecting rejection letters before she sold her first novel. Raised in New Jersey and trained in art at Douglass College, she wrote romance from her kitchen table as a stay-at-home mother in New Hampshire, eventually publishing close to a dozen romance novels, including her 1987 debut, Hero at Large, under the pseudonym Steffie Hall, before switching genres entirely. See every Janet Evanovich book in order.
Its place in Stephanie Plum
Hard Eight is book 8 in the Stephanie Plum series. It follows Seven Up. It is followed by Visions of Sugar Plums. See the full Stephanie Plum reading order.
Stephanie Plum is a laid-off lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who talks her way into a job as a bail bondsman's apprentice and turns out to be a chaotic, gun-averse, car-destroying natural at bounty hunting. Janet Evanovich built the series as comic crime fiction rather than a straight procedural: every book sends Stephanie after a new low-level skip (a bail jumper who's failed to show for court), and the actual mystery plot is really a frame for Jersey-flavoured slapstick, a rotating love triangle…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781559277259
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312983864