Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Janet Evanovich´s #1 New York Times-bestselling sensation Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-fourth captivating thriller, where corpses litter the streets of New Jersey. Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semiprofessional loon Simon Diggery won´t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie´s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a taser--whether that´s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen. Events take a dark turn when headless bodies start appearing across town. At first it´s just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church, Stephanie knows that she´s the only one with a prayer of catching this killer. If all that´s not enough, Diesel´s back in town. The six-foot-tall, blond-haired hunk is a man who accepts no limits--that includes locked doors, closed windows, and underwear. Trenton´s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, isn´t pleased at this unexpected arrival, nor is Ranger, the high-powered security consultant who has his own plans for Stephanie. As usual, Jersey´s favorite bounty hunter is stuck in the middle, with more questions than answers. What´s the deal with Grandma Mazur´s latest online paramour? Who is behind the startling epidemic of mutilated corpses? And is the enigmatic Diesel´s sudden appearance a coincidence or the cause of recent deadly events?