--- title: "Split Second: Stephanie Plum Is Married, and Someone Wants Her Dead" description: "Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo, Stephanie Plum book 32, out 10th November 2026: the plot, Morelli, Ranger and where to buy it." author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief) date: 2026-11-09T22:40:05.632Z updated: 2026-11-09T22:40:35.137Z canonical: https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/split-second-stephanie-plum-is-married-and-someone-wants-her-dead image: https://cdn.nanimediahouse.com/pexels-30421791.webp categories: Fiction content_type: Feature publication: Rich Books schema_type: Article about: - type: Person name: Janet Evanovich description: "Janet Evanovich is an American crime and comedy novelist, born in South River, New Jersey, and the author of the Stephanie Plum series, which began with One for the Money in 1994 and reached book 32 with Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo in November 2026. She also writes the Fox and O'Hare, Lizzy and Diesel, Knight and Moon and Recovery Agent series." url: https://evanovich.com jobTitle: Novelist sameAs: - https://evanovich.com --- ### Book: Split Second *Thirty-Two Switcheroo* By Janet Evanovich Book 32 in the Stephanie Plum series. Newly married to Joe Morelli, the Trenton bounty hunter is targeted by an anonymous enemy who sends disturbing packages and threatening notes, while bail jumper Greb Tusi, wanted for a three-hour rampage that included stealing a hearse, keeps trying to push her off roofs and bridges. Working for her ex-fiancé Ranger on a security job for a powerful political figure, Stephanie loses the family member she was minding to kidnappers. The UK edition is published by Headline Review as Split Second: Stephanie Plum 32 (ISBN 9781035426058). [Waterstones](https://www.waterstones.com/book/split-second/janet-evanovich/9781035426058) Stephanie Plum spent thirty books refusing to choose between Joe Morelli and Ranger. In Now or Never, published in November 2024, she said yes to both of them, kept the double engagement secret for as long as she could and finally chose Morelli, in a wedding that many readers felt was over in a few pages. You have waited two years to see what married life does to Trenton's most accident-prone bounty hunter. Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo, book 32 in the Stephanie Plum series, arrives on 10th November 2026, and somebody wants her dead before the honeymoon glow has worn off. ## Split Second Plot and the Enemy With No Name The publisher's description sets three problems running at once. The first is an enemy whose name appears on none of Stephanie's lists. Years of hauling bail jumpers back to court have left her with plenty of people holding grudges, but this one sends disturbing packages and threatening notes and arranges near misses without ever stepping out of the shadows. You know from the start that this person wants her dead. Stephanie has no idea who it is. The second problem is Greb Tusi, a bond jumper wanted for a three-hour rampage that included mugging an old lady and stealing a hearse. Tusi insists none of it was his fault. His plan for Stephanie is simpler than the stalker's: he keeps trying to push her off roofs and bridges and in front of trucks. The third problem is work. Ranger, now her ex-fiancé as well as her mentor, has taken a security contract for a powerful political figure and has put Stephanie in charge of minding one of that figure's relatives. The relative is kidnapped on her watch, and Stephanie fears Ranger's reaction more than anything Tusi has planned for her. ## The Stalker and the Bail Jumper The comedy sits in the contrast between the two men trying to end her week. The publisher credits the anonymous enemy with creative flair and a strong work ethic, and describes Tusi as a minimalist whose whole method is a well-timed shove. One plans every detail and the other relies on gravity. That mix of real menace and slapstick has carried the series since One for the Money in 1994. A Plum novel lets a death threat and a stolen hearse share the same chapter, and the danger feels sharper for the laughter around it. ## Stephanie Plum Married to Morelli For thirty-one books the series ran on the pull between Morelli, the Trenton cop Stephanie grew up with, and Ranger, the former Special Forces soldier who runs a security company. Readers picked sides for decades. Split Second is the first book to put Stephanie inside a marriage, and it still sends her out on a job for the man she did not marry. The 'Switcheroo' in the title points to a reversal, and the setup gives that reversal a clear shape. The woman who could not choose now has a husband at home, while the other man judges her work, and the case he gave her has gone wrong in the worst possible way. ## Is Split Second a Good Place to Start You can read it on its own. Each Plum novel brings its own bail jumper and its own case, and the publisher's description gives you everything this one needs. The marriage to Morelli and the job for Ranger land hardest, however, if you have watched Stephanie dodge both men across the earlier books. If you want the payoff without reading the whole run, read Now or Never first and then this one. ## Recent Stephanie Plum Books in Order - Going Rogue, book 29 - Dirty Thirty, book 30 - Now or Never, book 31 - Split Second, book 32 ## Split Second UK and US Editions In the US, Atria Books publishes it as Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo on 10th November 2026, following the numbered subtitle that Now or Never carried as Thirty-One on the Run. The US hardback lists at $30 and the ebook at $14.99. In the UK, Headline Review publishes the hardback as Split Second: Stephanie Plum 32 at £25. Both editions run to 320 pages. ## Who Should Read Split Second Give it to the friend who [reads crime fiction for the plot](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/call-out-the-dogs-review) and stays for the jokes. Give it to anyone who has spent two years wanting to know whether Stephanie Plum can stay married and stay alive in the same week. If you prefer your mysteries grim and procedural, [choose another book this month](https://richbooksmagazine.com/article/hot-titles-to-read-this-november-from-the-friday-bookshop-to-judi-dench-s-memoir). ## Where to Buy Split Second - [Split Second at Waterstones (UK hardback, £25)](https://www.waterstones.com/book/split-second/janet-evanovich/9781035426058) - [Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo at Barnes & Noble (US hardback)](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781668069707)