Hardcore Twenty-Four

 Shirley J                            Adult Fiction                         Female Bounty Hunters, Zombies!

Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich (Book 24 in the Stephanie Plum series)   304 pages        

When Stephanie has to bring in FTA  and sometimes grave robber, Simon Diggery, he makes her promise to babysit his Boa Constrictor, Ethyl.   Stephanie does her best, she brings  Ethyl pizza, doughnuts, roadkill and finds that feral cats have gotten into Simon's house while she was away, and then there were the raccoons the next time she came.   She stopped going in to the house all together and just tossed whatever edible thing she came across in to Ethyl in hopes she would eat whatever.   Lula is always on hand to help out but this time she is being stalked by ZOMBIES!   They are showing up all over Trenton and brains are disappearing out of corpses right and left even from the former Stivas funeral home now under new management.   Diesel pops up and is hunting someone or something but so mysteriously Stephanie has no clue what he is after.   Ranger collects on one of their double or nothing bets to Stephanie's utter bliss and slut shame over Morelli.  There is a professional protestor (who knew you could get $20 bucks an hour for that?  More if you carry a sign and even more if you instigate anything that gets on the news and makes headlines!)    Grandma Mazur is still trolling the internet for Honeys and fell for a guy who looks just like George Hamilton in his pictures...wait a minute!   That IS George Hamilton!  Stephanie does a little reseacrh and finds the guy is short, pudgy has a wife and they are swingers, oh yea, she is short and pudgy, too.   Stephanie's mother calls hysterical that Grandma has run off and is flying to Florida to get with her new sweetie.   Does it ever end?   Keep reading to find out.   I recommend this book to all the Stephanie Plum addicts - you will love it.   Middle-schoolers on up will enjoy this story.