Lost Luggage

Wendall Thomas

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Poisoned Pen Press
03 October 2017

Adventure; Historical adventure; Adult & contemporary romance

Series: Cyd Redondo Mysteries

Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents' Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees-and everywhere else-then sneaks out of her Atlantic City hotel room at three a.m.

Back in Brooklyn, when she reads about smugglers stopped at JFK with skinks in their socks or monkeys down their pants, she never imagines she will join their ranks. But days after the pet store owner next door to Redondo Travel is poisoned, Cyd wins a free safari. Her boss, Uncle Ray, wants to cash it in for computers, but Cyd is determined to go. When Roger turns up at the Redondo clan's door, Cyd invites him along as her ""plus one."" And just like that she is thrown heels-first into the bizarre and sinister world of international animal smuggling.

She and Roger arrive in Africa, luggage lost, to find two of Cyd's elderly clients in a local jail. She manages to barter them out, only to discover smugglers have hidden five hundred thousand dollars' worth of endangered parrots, snakes, frogs, and a lone Madagascan chameleon in the clients' outbound luggage. When Roger steals the bags-is the U.S. Embassy in on the contraband ring?-Cyd and the chameleon helicopter into the jungle to go after Roger on their own.

Wondering if ""plus one"" Roger is actually 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 trap, and is forced to smuggle snakes in her bra. It's a scramble to find the smugglers, save her clients, and solve Mrs. Barsky's murder before finding herself at the top of the endangered species list.

By: Wendall Thomas
Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781464208928
ISBN 10: 1464208921
Series: Cyd Redondo Mysteries
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 03 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wendall Thomas teaches in the Graduate Film School at UCLA, lectures internationally on screenwriting, and has worked as an entertainment reporter, script consultant, and film and television writer. Her short fiction has appeared in the crime anthologies Ladies Night (2015) and Last Resort (2017).

Reviews for Lost Luggage

Laugh-out-loud funny and enchantingly ridiculous...highly entertaining... - Jessica Howard, Shelf Awareness Thomas packs a whole franchise's worth of adventures into her heroine's debut... - Kirkus Reviews I've been waiting for years to find a successor to Janet Evanovich, and I've finally found one. - Kittling Books A breath of fresh air in a world gone mad...my vote for one of the best new characters in mystery/crime. - The Reading Room Thomas makes a rollicking debut with this comic mystery featuring an unconventional protagonist who proves to have the skills of MacGyver. With its sexy overtones, this fun, character-driven novel will appeal to Janet Evanovich fans. - Library Journal STARRED Review

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