Stephanie Plum · Book 15

Lean Mean Thirteen

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
320
ISBN-13
8601415686241
Type
novel
Cover of Lean Mean Thirteen

About this book

Lean Mean Thirteen is the Stephanie Plum series' thirteenth entry, a novel by Janet Evanovich, published in 2007, at 320 pages. In the reading order it follows Plum Lovin' and precedes Plum Lucky.

Key facts about Lean Mean Thirteen

Lean Mean Thirteen is a novel by Janet Evanovich. Readers have had it since 2007. It runs to 320 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Lean Mean Thirteen. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 8601415686241 to find the main one.

Lean Mean Thirteen is book 15 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

Lean Mean Thirteen is book 15 in the Stephanie Plum series. It follows Plum Lovin'. It is followed by Plum Lucky. 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…

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