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Stephanie Plum Is Back on the Case: Janet Evanovich Delivers Book 32, “Split Second”

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November 12, 2026

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Three decades and thirty-two books in, Stephanie Plum’s life is still never boring, not even for a split second.

Janet Evanovich’s Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo, the 32nd novel in the Stephanie Plum series, arrived in bookstores on November 10 from Atria Books. Evanovich, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns readers to Trenton, New Jersey, where bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum works out of her cousin Vinnie’s bail bond office alongside the unforgettable Lula.

This time out, Stephanie has an enemy problem. Over the years she has collected a long list of people who would like to see her gone, an occupational hazard of the bounty hunting trade, but her newest tormentor is not on any list. Disturbing packages, threatening notes and near misses are arriving from a stalker who stays in the shadows and wants her dead.

As if that were not enough, bond jumper Greb Tusi is also out to get rid of her. Tusi is wanted after a three-hour rampage that included mugging an old lady and stealing a hearse, an episode he swears “wasn’t his fault.”

And Stephanie, newly married, has taken on work for her ex-fiancé and mentor, Ranger, whose security firm has landed a job protecting a powerful political figure. Stephanie is assigned to watch over one of the figure’s family members, who is then kidnapped on her watch. The clock is ticking for her to find the kidnap victim, collar Tusi and unmask her invisible stalker before her time runs out.

The Plum series began in 1994 with One for the Money and has grown into one of the most durable franchises in popular fiction, blending mystery, comedy and a rotating cast of Trenton characters readers have loved for a generation. At 320 pages, Split Second delivers the formula fans expect: exploding cars, absurd criminals and a heroine who keeps getting back up. Some lifetimes are shorter than others, but Stephanie Plum’s shows no sign of ending.

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Cathy Park Hong Crosses Into Fiction: Her Debut Novel “Furies” Sparks a Worldwide Deal

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November 12, 2026

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Cathy Park Hong rewrote the rules for the memoir with Minor Feelings. Now she is coming for the novel.

Publishers Marketplace reported on November 3 that Hong will make her fiction debut with Furies, in a deal that places the book with One World in North America and Hutchinson Heinemann in the United Kingdom, with further editions set for France (Phébus), Hungary (Agave Könyvek), Germany (DTV) and Italy (INN Editore), a worldwide launch for a first novel.

Furies follows a failed Korean American journalist who returns home to write about her mother. From that intimate starting point, the novel opens outward into a story of mothers and daughters that also sweeps in North Korean terrorists, abducted actresses, filmmakers and a film-obsessed dictator, exploring the borders between history, imagination, fact and memory.

Hong, a poet before she was anything else, published Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning in 2020 to enormous acclaim. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and it permanently changed the conversation about Asian American life in the United States with its blend of memoir, history and cultural criticism.

That track record is what makes Furies one of the most anticipated literary debuts on the horizon. Writers who can move between poetry, essay and now fiction with equal force are rare, and publishers on four continents have bet that Hong is one of them. The multi-country deal, struck before the book has even reached readers, signals the level of expectation building around it.

No publication date has been announced yet. When Furies arrives, it will carry the weight of a simple, exciting fact: one of the sharpest literary voices of her generation has a whole new form to work in.