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Is that your granny?" Ranger wanted to know. "Yup. She was checking to make sure Moogey was here." "You've got a helluva gene pool, babe."
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Sure, I know that," Lula said. "Nothing scares you. You're a big badass bounty hunter." "Damn right," I said. And then I concentrated on not hyperventilating."
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I wrinkled my nose. "What is that smell? Oh God, I didn't mess myself, did I?"
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Something's going down," I said to Morelli. "All the players are here. Maybe we should call the police." "I'm the police."
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photograph?" "Information"
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My goodness," my mother said, reading the label. "It's a tenderloin." "I just got it in," Randy said. "It's corn-fed, and it's got real good marbling. I know everybody's always talking about grass-fed beef, but if you ask me it's shoe leather. Give me a cow that's been shoved into a pen with a thousand other cows and forced to eat grain, and I'll show you a darn good pot roast."
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Okay, so this had all the makings of a cluster fuck, but there was a Dairy Queen Oreo Cheese-Quake Blizzard waiting for me somewhere.
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How's it going?" Morelli wanted to know. "It's average. Stole a truck. Blew up a house. Brought seven monkeys home with me. And now I have a naked man in my shower." "Yeah, same ol', same ol'," Morelli said."
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I don't know what to think of the coffin story. You have any more information on these coffins? Where they were originally purchased? What they look like?" "They're made of wood. About six foot long..." "If there's one thing I hate, it's a wise-ass bounty hunter." I showed him the picture. "You're right," he said. "They're made of wood, and they're about six foot long."
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Morelli got Briggs a glass. "Don't let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I'm even less civilized than she is."
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I'm going out for muffins." "Give me five minutes to get my shoes on." "I don't have five minutes," I said. "I have things to do. I've got the panic button. I'll be fine. I'll bring a muffin back for you. What do you want, zucchini, no fat, no sugar, extra bran?" I turned to go and Ranger scooped me up and carried me into the bedroom and tossed me onto the bed. "Five minutes," he said, lacing his shoes. I lay there spread-eagle, waiting for..
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my leg over the bike. Ranger was watching me, smiling. "I like the way you straddle that," he said. "Someday . . ."
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He pooped twice, and I didn't pick it up. My feeling is if God wanted me to pick up dog poop he would have made it look like diamonds and smell like roses.
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Ranger was the second biggest complication in my life, and now that Morelli was out of the picture, I supposed Ranger was elevated to numero uno. He's close to six foot, one way or the other, is Latino, with medium brown skin and dark brown hair cut short. His teeth are white and even, and he has a killer smile that is seen only on special occasions. He dresses in black, and today he was wearing a black T-shirt and black cargo pants.
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Every man in my organization knows you and understands that you're my personal property,
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Clara and I retraced our steps and returned to the speakeasy. Josh and Carl were playing checkers in the dim light. "Who's winning?" I asked. "Carl is winning," Glo said. "If we don't let him win he pitches a tantrum and throws the checkers all around the room."
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What time is it?" Lula asked. "I might need a doughnut. Is it doughnut time?" "I'm thinking about eating healthier," I said. "More vegetables and fewer doughnuts." "What's that about?" "I don't know. It just came over me." "It's a bad idea. What do I look like, Mr. Green Jeans? How would it sound if I said it's vegetable time? People would think I was a nut. Nobody gets a craving for a vegetable. And I'm the one on the diet. What am I gonna..
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She opened a beer and took a sip. "You'd really go all the way to Greece, and run a covert operation again, just so I can have the satisfaction of capturing Nick Fox?" "Sure," he said. "We don't get nearly enough quality father-daughter time."
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Did you pack an extra gun?" "Of course," she said. "You can never have too many weapons." Jake smiled. "I raised you right."
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That could be a problem," Glo said, "since I seem to have made a combination of two spells. But here's the good news. I didn't have any powdered newt snot, so the spell is most likely temporary."
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were bond enforcement. "I guess I forgot my date,"
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Omigod. He gave you a car?" "He said it was an investment in our working relationship. What does that mean?" "What kind of car is it?" "A new Porsche." "That's at least oral sex." "Be serious!" I said. "Okay, the truth is . . . It's beyond oral sex. It could be, you know, butt stuff." "I'll return the car." "Stephanie, this is a Porsche!" "And I think he's flirting with me, but I'm not sure."
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do it with the bandaged hand, so he had the
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I thought your mother liked me." "My grandmother likes you. My mother worries that you might be related to Satan."
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I'm going to run you down, back over you, and then I'm going to get out and shock you with my stun gun until your hair catches fire.
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I think you should go shopping first. I like when you bring all that kinky stuff home.
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Bummer," Glo said. "Do you want me to say some words? I'm an ordained minister. I even have a certificate." "What church?" I asked her. "The Church of the Barley Goddess." "I don't think that's a real church." "They have a website," Glo said. "The World Wide Web wouldn't allow them on there if they weren't real."
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This was the second time in less than forty-eight hours that a man stopped fondling me because his phone rang. And both times it was because someone had been killed. If I wasn't a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person I might be bothered by this.
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my knee,
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Kate's phone rang, with the caller ID "Nick McGarrett."
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FOUR TO SCORE
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I don't think I'm especially homophobic, but I draw the line at Batman.
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How we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected or do things merely co-occur? It's all in how you think.
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Of course when you have a Bob dog everything is dog food.
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Ranger raised my bruised and bloody wrist to his mouth and kissed it. "I'm sorry to have to do this to you, but there"
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You were worried about me?" "No," Hal said. "I was worried Ranger would kill me if I lost you."
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He rushed to the dish, crammed everything into his cheeks, and rushed back to his soup can, where he hunkered in butt side out, vibrating with happiness and good fortune. That's the neat part about a hamster. It doesn't take much to make a hamster happy.
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I turned the key in the ignition and pulled away from the curb. "What will you do if you see Mo?" "I'll snatch the little fucker up by his gonads and squash him into the trunk of my car."
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She looked like Pooh when he was stuck in the rabbit hole.
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after major-league criminals who couldn't be caught through legal means. So Nick remained a major-league criminal himself, secretly working for the FBI, and Kate remained a top FBI field agent, secretly working with an international fugitive. And that's why Kate was currently taking the curves on Sunset like it was the Talladega Superspeedway. She was hoping to catch Nick in his Sunset Strip penthouse. Technically, the penthouse wasn't Nick..
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And we're going to bring him in." "How are you gonna do that? You got an elephant gun? You got Ranger in the trunk of your car?" "I have you. I'm going to send you into Fat Dave's and you're going to charm Winkle." "That might not be a bad idea," Lula said. "I am charming. I could charm the ass off him." "Exactly. And then we convince him that once we get him rebonded he's going to have a really good time." "He might even know my reputation..
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And I was careful to balance out my meal with something from different major food groups. I got fried protein, tasty carbohydrates, and gravy." "Gravy isn't a food group." "Say what?"
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haunches, looking dejected. "Where's the other monkey?" I asked him. Carl looked up. The monkey was in a tree. "What's he doing there?" Carl shrugged. "This was a stupid idea," I said to Diesel. "Yeah, but at least you walked off your sausage-and-egg sandwich. It would have gone straight to your ass." "I'm going back to Gail's house, and then"
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