Notorious Nineteen

Copyright © 2012 by Evanovich, Inc.

By Janet Evanovich

One For The Money

Two For The Dough

Three To Get Deadly

Four To Score

High Five

Hot Six

Seven Up

Hard Eight

To The Nines

Ten Big Ones

Eleven On Top

Twelve Sharp

Lean Mean Thirteen

Fearless Fourteen

Finger Lickin’ Fifteen

Sizzling Sixteen

Smokin’ Seventeen

Explosive Eighteen

Notorious Nineteen

Diesel & Tucker Series

Wicked Appetite

Wicked Business

Between the Numbers novels

Visions Of Sugar Plums

Plum Lovin’

Plum Lucky

Plum Spooky

And writing with Charlotte Hughes

Full House

Full Tilt

Full Speed

Full Blast

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JANET EVANOVICH is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Troublemaker graphic novels, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.

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ONE

“I DON’T KNOW why we gotta sit here baking in your car in the middle of the day, in the middle of the summer, in the middle of this crummy neighborhood,” Lula said. “It must be two hundred degrees in here. Why don’t we have the air conditioning on?”

“It’s broken,” I told her.

“Well, why don’t you have your window open?”

“It’s stuck closed.”

“Then why didn’t we take my car? My car’s got everything.”

“Your car is red and flashy. People notice it and remember it. This is the stealth car,” I said.

Lula shifted in her seat. “Stealth car, my big toe. This thing is a hunk of junk.”

This was true, but it was my hunk of junk, and due to a professional dry spell it was all I could afford. Lula and I work for my cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds office in Trenton, New Jersey. I’m a fugitive apprehension agent, and Lula is my sometimes partner.