title: The Gallows' Bounty
author:  Desiree Banks 
description: Desiree Banks is a Midwestern author who spent a lot of time in the car without a cell phone as a child. This led to an overactive imagination and even longer trips to England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, and Panama. Now as a wife, mother of four, and a high school English teacher, she uses her imagination to travel to other times and places. She hopes you enjoy her 'travels' with her.
zlib_text: A Featured Alternate Selection of the  
  Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club and  
  a Main Selection of the Mystery Guild
  
  
  
  
  
  Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of _One for the Money, Two for the Dough,_
  and _Three to Get Deadly,_ scores big with _Four to Score,_ her most thrilling
  Stephanie Plum adventure yet. Working for her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie,
  Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki,
  whose crimes include bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Someone is terrifying
  Maxine's friends, and those who have seen her are turning up dead. Also on the
  hunt for Maxine is Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie's archenemy and rival bounty
  hunter. Stephanie's attitude never wavers —even when aided by crazy Grandma
  Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock
  musician Sally Sweet —and even when Stephanie makes an enemy whose deadly
  tactics escalate from threatening messages to firebombs. All of this pales in
  comparison, though, with an even 