WICKED BUSINESS: A LIZZY AND DIESEL NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12731112B54931
English Summary/英文概要： The hardcover edition of Wicked Business contains Plum & Wicked stickers inside!
Whether it’s monkey business, funny business, or getting down to business, Janet Evanovich’s Lizzy and Diesel series proves that there’s no business like Wicked Business.
Lizzy Tucker’s 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 they’ll leave behind a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and general mayhem.
Diesel’s 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 she’s 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 珍妮特•伊萬諾維奇，著名暢銷書作家心愛的斯蒂芬妮•普拉姆系列，以全新的形象隆重登場。她的小說，被譽為是"當代犯罪小說中最具情趣"的作品，作者用充滿活力的機智和搞笑的混亂謀殺情節，向讀者呈現了故事主人公一幕幕充滿歡鬧的冒險之旅，現在，這位最炙手可熱的作家重返莉茲和迪賽系列，向讀者證明了當正在追捕壞蛋時，真正充滿樂趣的事情正是在追捕的過程中。
當徹頭徹尾浪漫的哈佛大學英語教授吉伯特 裡迪被神秘地謀殺，扔下四樓的陽臺時，莉茲和迪賽開始著手去追尋他有著二十個年頭的Luxuria Stone，一些人認為這個古代文物充滿著權力的欲望。在這古物後面跟隨著一首十九世紀神秘的十四行詩線索，莉茲和迪賽穿越波士頓墓穴、政府大樓和豪宅，卻留下了一連串盜墓、擾亂公共秩序和任意誘惑的罪名。
珍妮特•伊萬諾維奇再度給世界各地的讀者留下了一部令人興奮的，欲罷不能的驚險小說。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Key WICKED BUSINESS Selling Points:
• BLOCKBUSTER AUTHOR: Janet Evanovich is one of the world’s biggest-selling authors. Her last book in the incredibly successful Stephanie Plum series, SMOKIN’ SEVENTEEN, debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller fiction list, as did her previous eleven books. SMOKIN’ SEVENTEEN, our first book with Evanovich, sold 100,000 hardcovers, 100,000 eBooks, and 18,000 audio books on the first day alone.
• BESTSELLING SERIES: WICKED APPETITE, the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series, hit #1 in mass market on the New York Times bestseller list.
• TAKING THE TRADITIONAL PLUM PUBLICATION DATE: After having two Plum novels back-to-back in 2011, we will use the traditional June Plum pub date to relaunch Lizzy and Diesel, which will help introduce Plum fans to the Lizzy and Diesel franchise.
• SET UP WITH EIGHTEEN: The mass market edition of Explosive Eighteen is scheduled for a 5/15/12 on-sale date and can be used to preview and set up Lizzy and Diesel.
• CONNECTED TO PLUM SERIES: The character of Diesel was introduced in the Plum books, and we will reinforce the connections in our promotion of this spin-off series.
• THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: Each Lizzy and Diesel book involves the search for a magical token connected to one of the seven deadly sins; in the first title they tackled Gluttony, and this book they’ll go for Lust!
• CONTINUED GROWTH WORLDWIDE: 75 million copies of Evanovich’s thirty-three novels have been sold worldwide.
Rights to WICKED BUSINESS and all four Stephanie Plum titles that we control have sold to Headline in the UK and Random House Germany.
About the Author/作者介绍： 珍妮特•伊萬諾維奇是斯蒂芬妮•普拉姆是，十二部浪漫小說，亞歷山卓•巴納比系列小說和一系列暢銷漫畫小說，《邪惡的欲望》和《我是如何寫作：成為暢銷作者的秘密》等一系列暢銷小說的作者。
她以筆名Steffie Hall開始了她的當代短篇浪漫小說寫作，但斯蒂芬妮•普拉姆這一系列神秘小說卻為她贏得了打開了聲譽，書中主角斯蒂芬妮原本是新澤西州的一名女性內衣採購員，卻不幸丟了工作，無奈之下只好做起了賞金獵人。整個系列作品屬於摻雜愛情元素的偵探小說，受到很多女性讀者的喜愛，令伊萬諾維奇一躍成為暢銷書作家。這一系列的第18部小說《Explosive Eighteen》位居紐約時報和亞馬遜暢銷書排行榜。這一系列的書名，還有一個有趣的特點：書名中都包括了該書的序號，譬如首部書就叫《鈔票第一》（One for the Money）
Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and graphic novels, Wicked Appetite (the first book in the Lizzy and Diesel series,) and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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