Hardcore Twenty-Four

Janet Evanovich’ s #1 New York Times  bestselling sensation  Stephanie Plum  returns in her  twenty-forth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey. . .  

Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional 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 stun gun— 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 6-foot-tall, blonde-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?