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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her usual cohorts search for seventy-two year old Uncle Fred who has a drawer full of photographs of body parts.

In 1914, as the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household. Amidst a growing tangle of disguises and deceptions, Emerson's nemesis, the Master Criminal, appears.

Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, and her unruly sidekicks brave the hot Jersey streets and endless threats to track down a waitress-gone-bad.

Determined to take control of her life, Goldy Bear moves her catering business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadows Country Club. Just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and being wooed by both a handsome shrink and a rugged cop--the sightly doctor inexplicably drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Godly is convinced the doctor's death was no accident.

Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from Emerson's past.

No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail.

Sir Henry is striving to ensure no tomb has been overlooked by the previous expedition. Scarcely have the men started working when their spades uncover a series of steps cut into the rock. Then Sir Henry is found stiff and stark in his bed. On his high brow, inscribed in what appears to be dried blood, is a crudely drawn uraeus serpent, the symbol of the divine pharaoh.

An art history professor, writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and ... he had to kill one of his models. This is the story of a man whose "hobby" becomes an enjoyable compulsion.

Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison during a funeral buffet Goldy is serving, the police quickly close her business. Now it's up to Goldy to find the rat who has tainted her food and her reputation.

The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good to be true.