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Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, grave robber Simon Diggery won´t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Events take a turn when headless bodies start appearing. At first, it´s corpses from a funeral home. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church Stephanie knows that she´s the only onewho can catch this killer.

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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?

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Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, the Fox and O´Hare novels, the Lizzy and Diesel series, the Alexandra Barnaby novels, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author , and coauthor of a graphic novel, Troublemaker , with her daughter, Alex.

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