Cuddly Mo Bedemier, Trenton's favourite ice - cream seller, has gone missing. Stephanie Plum, carbohydrates' biggest fan, needs to track him down. But it's not raspberry ripple she's after: Mo's jumped bail, and Stephanie's job is bounty hunting. Nobody can believe Mo would do anything wrong. But Stephanie - with the help of big blonde Lula, good cop/bad cop Joe Morelli and fitness - freak Ranger - soon discovers that Mo has more than candy in his Basement. Uncovering the truth about Mo is one thing, but coping with dead drug dealers, a man - sized chicken and a seriously bright hair colour is pushing Stephanie to the edge. And when someone holds her hamster to ransom, things look like they're getting deadly. 'Evanovich's comic surrealism is in the same league as Carl Hiaasen's.' Marcel Berlins, The Times