Desperate for money-or maybe just desperate-Stephanie 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, Stephanie 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. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do.Īfter 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. #1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels are: “irresistible” ( Houston Chronicle), “stunning” ( Booklist), “outrageous” ( Publishers Weekly), “brilliantly evocative” ( The Denver Post), and “making trouble and winning hearts” ( USA Today).

Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich