Stephanie Plum, the brassy bail-bond agent from Trenton, N.J., has been given the unpopular task of finding beloved ice cream vendor Mo Bedemier, who skipped bail after his arrest for carrying a concealed weapon. But when Stephanie is struck on the head and awakens next to a dead body, intrepid private eye, Stephanie Plum finds herself at the top of the Trenton police's suspect list, and being shot at by mysterious masked thugs, she begins to think that maybe its time to get a new job.