Video: The pen behind Stephanie Plum!

Blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with one of fiction's most iconic and memorable characters, the original bounty-hunting-Jersey-girl, Stephanie Plum. Evanovich is the topselling female author in the country, with more than a hundred million copies of her books sold around the world. Her novels have been translated into over 25 languages, and she's had eleven consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers. She's written more than seventeen novels featuring Plum, as well as WICKED APPETITE (the first book in her new Lizzy and Diesel series), the Barnaby and Hooker novel and graphic novel series, twelve romance novels, and HOW I WRITE: SECRETS OF A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.

Evanovich's first novel in the Plum series, ONE FOR THE MONEY, will be released in January 2012 as a major motion picture, starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum, Sherri Shepherd as Lula, Jason O'Mara (Life on Mars and Terra Nova) as Joe Morelli, Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me and The Devil Wears Prada) as Ranger and film legend Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur.

Janet Evanovich has created one of the most beloved and bestselling character series in all of fiction with Stephanie Plum. Her newest novel, SMOKIN' SEVENTEEN, is sure to please readers new and old alike. A cold-blooded killer is leaving dead bodies addressed to Stephanie, in an empty construction lot. Plus Plum has a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire. If that isn't enough to make a girl run, screaming for the nearest Boston Cream donut, family and friends are urging Plum to make a decision between the two men in her life, the mysterious Ranger and Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli.

Evanovich's deft talent for screwball humor is at its best in SMOKIN SEVENTEEN,coupled with loveable characters and crime capers that keep the pages turning.