Wicked Business

From Janet Evanovich the bestselling author of SMOKIN SEVENTEEN and WICKED APPETITE comes the eagerly awaited second in the Lizzy and Diesel series Lizzy Tuckers once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem Massachusetts turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner Diesel. When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston catacombs government buildings and
multimillion-dollar residences. On their way theyll leave behind a trail of robbed graves public disturbances and general mayhem. Diesels black sheep cousin Gerwulf Grimoire also wants the Stone. His motives are far from pure and what he plans on doing with the treasure no one knows.. .but Lizzy Tucker fears shes in his crosshairs. Never far and always watching Grimoire has a growing vested interest in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another dangerous and dark opponent in the hunt--a devotee of lawlessness and chaos known only as Anarchy. Treasures will be sought and the power of lust will be unmistakable as Lizzy and Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy Grimoire and his medieval minion Hatchet in this ancient game of twisted riddles and high-stakes
hide-and-seek.