After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin
Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment
that could put her bank balance back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin,
facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier
assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital
after an emergency appendectomy.
Now it's on Stephanie to track down the
con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a
witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumours are stirring that he must
have had help with the daring escape...or that maybe he never made it
out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff's lips seem to be
tighter that the security, and it's hard for Stephanie to blend in to
assisted living, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a
second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Plum is forced into
working side by side with Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order
to crack the case.
Lizzy Tucker’s once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem,
Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and
an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits
partner, Diesel.
When Harvard University English Professor and dyed-in-the wool
romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his
fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for
the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with
the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic
nineteenth-century book of sonnets, Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston
catacombs, government buildings, and multimillion-dollar residences. On
their way they’ll leave behind a trail of robbed graves, public
disturbances, and general mayhem.
Diesel’s black sheep cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire also wants the Stone.
His motives are far from pure, and what he plans on doing with the
treasure, no one knows… but Lizzy Tucker fears she’s in his crosshairs.
Never far and always watching, Grimoire has a growing, vested interest
in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another
dangerous and dark opponent in the hunt – a devotee of lawlessness and
chaos, known only as Anarchy.
Treasures will be sought, and the power of lust will be unmistakable
as Lizzy and Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy, Grimoire, and his
medieval minion, Hatchet, in this ancient game of twisted riddles and
high-stakes hide-and-seek.
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin
Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment
that could put her bank balance back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin,
facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier
assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital
after an emergency appendectomy. 
