Hardcore Twenty-Four (Penguin LCC US)

Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, grave robber Simon Diggery won't let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Events take a turn when headless bodies start appearing. At first, it's corpses from a funeral home. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church Stephanie knows that she's the only onewho can catch this killer.