Evanovich, Janet

Stephanie Plum must retrieve a mysterious missing coin in order to pay the ransom for her co-worker who has been kidnapped.

Stephanie?s latest case involves tracking down two men involved in a massive jewelry heist: Duncan Dugan, who skipped bail post robbery, and Stephanie?s high-school friend, Nutsy Manley, now a professional clown and security guard, who was apparently involved in the heist. In her quest to find the pair, Stephanie encounters physical danger, has her apartment firebombed, and is threatened and nearly shot. As usual, though, she refuses to give up until she?s cracked the case and brought the baddies to justice.

When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn't keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn't seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition in this case, she'll need to watch her back every step of the way as she sets the stage to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world.

When Stephanie?s beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair; and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli?s treasure, they discover that they?re not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way; along with a new adversary who?s even more formidable.

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of sexy vice cop Joe Morelli, when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.

Grandma Mazur is a widow; again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen; well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not welcomed, particularly when Jimmy's former "business partners" are convinced that his widow is keeping the keys to their financial success for herself. As someone who has spent an entire career finding bad guys, a set of missing keys should be no challenge for Stephanie Plum. Problem is, the facts are as twisted as a boardwalk pretzel with mustard.

There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.

Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man.