Nikki, a woman who is out on parole for her husband's mysterious death, asks Kinsey to investigate the murder of her husband.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone's latest case takes her to a local hospital where Agnes, her client's grandmother, fears her life is in danger, and when the woman winds up dead, Kinsey realizes Agnes's fears were real and sets out to find the killer and discover why they wanted the gentle octogenarian dead.

"Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter who often runs into trouble on the job, but she has family, friends, and several men to help her out of sticky situations. There's Lula, a plus-sized former hooker turned bounty hunter, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie's outrageous grandmother who packs a gun and sometimes tags along on cases."--

The sudden death by supposedly natural causes of a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office is questioned by his wife and she asks Kinsey Millhone to investigate. Kinsey sets up shop in Nota Lake where she finds that looking for a needle in a haystack can draw blood, very likely her own.

Kinsey Millhone has been framed for a crime she didn't commit and must now uncover the truth or face losing everything she has worked for.

"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of theanimal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus,...

"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...

"In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a stoplight. Another vanishes from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin...To track the UNSUB, Caitlin must get inside his mind. How is he selecting these women?...

"Ren�ee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...