Book review: Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich

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?


                     MY REVIEW:


Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
What can I say? Another fun Stephanie Plum book. Stephanie is bounty hunter and she is trying to find grave robber, Simon, and when she does find him he has a Boa Constrictor named Ethel. So when she takes him into the police station she had to promise to take care of Ethel. Which she does. She shows up at his trailer every day with food and that turns into some hilarious times.
Now headless bodies are turning up and people are seeing zombies. I love a good ghost story and horror story but there is just something about Zombie stories I do not like and it isn't because they scare me or anything but because of all the hype about them and some times hearing in the news of people who actually believe in them. So I had to choke back reading this storyline but Janet Evanovich made it funny.
Then Diesel is back in town and just shows up in Stephanie's apartment and stays there. But when it doesn't look like he has been at the apartment for a few days then Stephanie gets worried and thinks he is into something bad.
Grandma Mazur has met a man online and decides she wants to go meet him despite what the family says.
So much going on but so many laughs.

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