Now or Never: Thirty-One on the Run

Its place in Stephanie Plum

Now or Never: Thirty-One on the Run is book 35 in the Stephanie Plum series. It follows Dirty Thirty. It is followed by Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo. 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…