Below is the complete list of Janet Evanovich’s Kate O’Hare and Nicolas Fox books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Kate O’Hare & Nicolas Fox Books
- The Caper (2013)
The Caper was published in 2013 and is listed as book #1 in the Kate O'Hare and Nicolas Fox series. 
About Kate O’Hare and Nicolas Fox
Janet Evanovich’s Kate O’Hare and Nicolas Fox series, also known as the Fox and O’Hare series, is a comic crime-caper sequence built around one of her most entertaining opposites-attract partnerships. Kate O’Hare is a driven FBI special agent who has spent years chasing Nicolas Fox, an international con man and master thief. Nick is charming, brilliant, slippery, and addicted to the art of the impossible scheme. Kate is disciplined, physical, stubborn, and deeply invested in bringing criminals down. Their lives should put them on opposite sides forever, but the series turns that conflict into its main engine by forcing them to work together.
The central premise begins with The Heist, where the FBI quietly recruits Nick after Kate finally catches him. Rather than wasting his talents behind bars, the Bureau uses him as an unofficial asset against criminals who are too rich, protected, or elusive for normal prosecution. Kate becomes his handler and partner, which creates the series’ signature tension. She knows exactly what Nick is capable of because she has hunted him. He knows how to push her because he understands rules well enough to bend them without shame.
The books mix crime fiction, heist plotting, romantic tension, and broad comedy. They are less like traditional detective novels and more like fast-moving capers where the fun comes from planning elaborate cons, assembling oddball helpers, and watching Kate and Nick improvise when the plan begins to unravel. The targets are usually criminals who deserve to be taken down but cannot easily be reached by ordinary legal channels. That gives the series a playful moral gray zone: Kate is still an FBI agent, but her work with Nick often requires deception, staged identities, and tricks that sit far outside standard procedure.
Lee Goldberg co-wrote the early and best-known stretch of the series with Evanovich, including The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, and The Pursuit. Those books establish the core rhythm: international settings, stylish thefts, dangerous villains, and a team dynamic that feels closer to a con-artist ensemble than a police unit. Nick’s criminal imagination drives many of the schemes, while Kate’s toughness and law-enforcement instincts keep the operation from becoming pure performance.
Later entries continue the series with different coauthors. The Big Kahuna was written with Peter Evanovich, while The Bounty was written with Steve Hamilton. These books keep Kate and Nick at the center while expanding the treasure-hunt and adventure elements. The shift in coauthor gives the later books a slightly different feel, but the main appeal remains the same: Kate and Nick are most interesting when they are arguing, planning, lying to dangerous people, and pretending they are not as attached to each other as they clearly are.
The supporting cast adds much of the comic flavor. Kate’s father, Jake O’Hare, a retired Special Forces operative, often brings muscle, tactical experience, and a gleeful willingness to participate in schemes that most fathers would probably discourage. The recurring helpers give the series a team-heist structure, allowing Evanovich to build stories around disguises, fake operations, technical tricks, and risky performances.
Kate O’Hare and Nicolas Fox works because it lets Evanovich move beyond the neighborhood chaos of Stephanie Plum into a broader world of international cons and high-stakes criminals, while preserving her gift for banter, outrageous situations, and romantic friction. The series is light, fast, and knowingly improbable, but its best moments come from the balance between Kate’s need for justice and Nick’s love of the game.