Hardcore Twenty-four

Brain-Eating Zombies, Headless Corpses, and a Wayward Fifty-Pound Boa Constrictor names Ethyl. Yeah, it's been a pretty routine week for Jersey Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum. 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, Ethyl. 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. Initially, 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 Six-foot-tall, blond-haired hunk is a man who accepts no