Stephanie's mother has found the perfect man, at least as far as she is concerned. Stephanie isn't convinced and he won't take no for an answer. Dave shows up and makes great meals for her but the timing isn't always convenient.
Meanwhile, two dead bodies are discovered on the lot where the bail bonds office used to stand. A local mobster and his lawyer. The office is operating out of Mooner's RV while Vince convinces his father-in-law to rebuild.
Stephanie and Lula have two clients to catch but they keep getting away. One believes himself to be a vampire and Lula shoots a toe off the foot of Melvin since he called her fat.
It's life as normal for Stephanie until more bodies start turning up on the empty lot with cards addressed to Stephanie. Morelli and Ranger both get involved as the threat to Stephanie deepens.
Filled with Evanovich's trademark humor and typical gags, readers will fall in love with the series again.
Where thereβs smoke thereβs fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear
is that Stephanieβs name is on the killerβs list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killerβs identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that itβs time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanieβs mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star whoβs just returned to town. Stephanieβs sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir βbake-off.β And Grandma Bella, Morelliβs old-world grandmother, is encouraging Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts βthe eyeβ on Stephanie.
With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanieβs life looks like itβs about to go up in smoke.
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