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Janet Evanovich introduced the Stephanie Plum crime fiction series with One for the Money in 1994 (Evanovich 1995), and has produced 17 novels to date. Several have won awards and reached No 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. The series is set around the “burg”, a traditional, Italian-American working-class suburb in Trenton, New Jersey, and features a female bounty hunter, Stephanie, as a new type of feisty, sassy heroine. In other words, she is a Jersey girl with “attitude”.
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Robinson, C. (2012). Hard-Boiled Screwball: Genre and Gender in the Crime Fiction of Janet Evanovich. In: Miller, V., Oakley, H. (eds) Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016768_5
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