But when Cadogan returns with the coppers, the sun is shining, and the toyshop This, it seems, is actually a matter for Gervase Fen. After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy.
Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape, or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive.
Since the hospital staff's lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it is hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Plum is forced into working side by side with Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case.
Solving the case is harder than she imagined and to make sure the rent is paid she takes on a second job, protecting her mentor Ranger from a deadly special forces adversary. If she hadn't, then she'd never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of heatstroke on the desert sand beside the body of a Mexican immigrant.
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The knocker on death's door. Fiendish Ingenuity by Michael Joseph Murphy.
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Not for the faint-hearted This book contains illustrations and descriptive passages that reflect the ever present dark side of mans' nature. It is an illustrated history of torture throughout the ages and up to the present day with illustrations of torture taken from Samuel Clarke's martyrology of If you think that the use of torture is a thing of the past then I Not for the faint-hearted If you think that the use of torture is a thing of the past then I am afraid you are very much mistaken.
The practice of torture is as rife today as it has always been as the examples quoted in this book will soon verify. Kindle Edition , pages. Published October 13th first published November 2nd To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Fiendish Ingenuity , please sign up.
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