![]() ![]() ![]() While snooping through Evelyn's apartment, Stephanie encounters her landlord, a local crime boss named Eddie Abruzzi. ![]() Steven seems to be less concerned about Annie's well-being than he is eager to get his hands on the bond money. Stephanie is unable to refuse, even though she is not a private investigator.Īfter interviewing Evelyn's bondsman, Les Sebring, and Steven Soter, Stephanie is baffled Steven was domineering and abusive, and Evelyn had no friends or other family members she might go to in an emergency, and no one has any idea where she might have gone. Mabel asks for Stephanie's help, since as a bounty hunter she is the closest thing Mabel knows to a detective. If Evelyn is not found, then the bond company will foreclose on her house, and the money will be forfeited to Steven. During a messy divorce with her ex-husband, Steven Soter, Evelyn was forced to post a child custody bond, and Mabel used her house as collateral. ![]() Stephanie is asked by her parents' next-door neighbor, Mabel Markowitz, to find her granddaughter, Evelyn and great-granddaughter, Annie, who have disappeared. The ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth volumes likewise revolve around Stephanie having a stalker. Hard Eight revolves around a child custody bond, rather than a criminal bail bond, and marks the (sometimes repeated) departure of the series from Stephanie chasing bad guys to Stephanie being stalked by bad guys. Hard Eight is the eighth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. ![]()
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