By Janet Evanovich
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Powerhouse writer Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels are “as interesting as ever” (Entertainment Weekly), “brilliantly evocative” (The Denver Post), and “making difficulty and successful hearts” (USA Today).
Stephanie Plum has her attractions set on catching a infamous mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he could take her out.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is aware higher than to clutter with family members. but if robust mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi is going at the lam in Trenton, it’s as much as Stephanie to discover him. Uncle Sunny is charged with homicide for operating over a man (twice), and no-one desires to flip him in—not his poker friends, now not his bimbo female friend, now not his right-hand males, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s preferred cop, Joe Morelli, has pores and skin within the online game, because—just Stephanie’s luck—the godfather is his actual godfather. And whereas Morelli knows that the legislation is the legislations, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing every thing she will to throw Stephanie off the path.
It’s not only Uncle Sunny giving Stephanie the run-around. defense professional Ranger wishes her support to unravel the unusual demise of a most sensible client’s mom, a lady who occurred to play bingo with Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur. prior to Stephanie is aware it, she’s operating part through facet with Ranger and Grandma on the senior middle, attempting to seize a killer at the loose—and the bingo balls aren't rolling of their favor.
With bullet holes in her automobile, henchmen on her tail, and a giraffe named Kevin working wild within the streets of Trenton, Stephanie must up her online game for the last word takedown.
From the Hardcover edition.
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