Henry Carter Hull

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets a bad feeling about Uncle Fred's disappearance when her aunt finds a set of pictures in his desk that show what looks a lot like a dead body stuffed in a garbage bag, and her problems are complicated by the attentions of two nearly irresistable men.

"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, Ethel. 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...