Stephanie Plum has problems. Grandma Mazur's gambling partner, Eddie Dachooch, was found toes-up on his kitchen floor, dead from a shotgun blast. But when Grandma goes to the viewing, she doesn't recognize the man in the casket. She drags Stephanie along to find the missing dead body. But Stephanie's mind is on other matters because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing...

Evanovich follows the fanfare which greeted her New Jersey bounty hunter character, Stephanie Plum, in One for the Money with a brand-new mystery. On a mission to bring in an errant felon--whose inadvertent shooting of his best friend has set off an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons--Stephanie is targeted for a nasty death by the most loathsome lunatic she's ever encountered.

A burnt-out bail bondsman pursues a couple driving a stolen car packed with high-end marijuana into the Mojave Desert.

Evan Maitland, antiques salesman and part-time bounty hunter, figures it will be an easy job. Barry McDermott has skipped on bond, and Maitland's been hired to bring him back. McDermott is no hardened criminal - he's a frightened lawyer charged with statutory rape. What Maitland doesn't know is that McDermott financed his escape with money stolen from the Raetown Jamaican Posse ... and they want him dead.

A black musician dies of an overdose of nicotine. He was trying to give up smoking and had five Nicoderm patches on his body. The man's daughter, however, has other ideas, she thinks he was murdered in connection with some pirated tapes and she hires the black private eye, CJ Floyd, to investigate. By the author of The Devil's Hatband.