Lost Luggage (Cyd Redondo Mysteries Book 1)

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Macavity Award 2018 nominee, Greatest First Novel

Left Award 2018 nominee, Greatest Debut Thriller Novel

“Thomas makes a rollicking debut with this comedian thriller that includes an unconventional protagonist who proves to have the talents of MacGyver. With its horny overtones, this enjoyable, character-driven novel will enchantment to Janet Evanovich followers.” —Library Journal STARRED evaluation

Cyd Redondo, a younger, third-generation Brooklyn journey agent who makes a speciality of senior residents, has by no means ventured farther than New Jersey. But even Jersey proves dangerous when her Journey Brokers’ Conference fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak within the knees-and in all places else-then sneaks out of her Atlantic Metropolis lodge room at three a.m.

Again in Brooklyn, when she reads about smugglers stopped at JFK with skinks of their socks or monkeys down their pants, she by no means imagines she’s going to be a part of their ranks. However days after the pet retailer proprietor subsequent door to Redondo Journey is poisoned, Cyd wins a free safari. Her boss, Uncle Ray, needs to money it in for computer systems, however Cyd is set to go. When Roger turns up on the Redondo clan’s door, Cyd invitations him alongside as her “plus one.” And similar to that she is thrown heels-first into the weird and sinister world of worldwide animal smuggling.

She and Roger arrive in Africa, baggage misplaced, to seek out two of Cyd’s aged shoppers in a neighborhood jail. She manages to barter them out, solely to find smugglers have hidden 5 hundred thousand {dollars}’ price of endangered parrots, snakes, frogs, and a lone Madagascan chameleon within the shoppers’ outbound baggage. When Roger steals the luggage—is the U.S. Embassy in on the contraband ring?—Cyd and the chameleon helicopter into the jungle to go after Roger on their very own.

Questioning if “plus one” Roger is definitely a minus, Cyd dodges Interpol, faces off with a cobra, steals a diplomatic bag, hijacks a FedEx truck, crashes an eco-safari, winds up in a leopard entice, and is pressured to smuggle snakes in her bra. It is a scramble to seek out the smugglers, save her shoppers, and clear up Mrs. Barsky’s homicide earlier than discovering herself on the high of the endangered species checklist.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07VMH4R6G
Writer ‏ : ‎ Poisoned Pen Press (October 3, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 3.6 MB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Smart ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 278 pages