Then again - a little food poisoning, some threatening notes, and a bridesmaid's dress with an excess of taffeta never killed anyone. While Stephanie is notorious for finding trouble, she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around. Desperate for money - or maybe just desperate - Plum accepts a secondary job guarding her secretive and mouthwatering mentor Ranger from a deadly special-forces adversary. The real problem is, no Cubbin also means no way to pay the rent. 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. Since the hospital staff's lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it's hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. 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 checkbook back in the black. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don't just vanish into thin air.

Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich