{"product_id":"lost-luggage-9781464208928","title":"Lost Luggage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMacavity Award 2018 nominee, Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeft Award 2018 nominee, Best Debut Mystery Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e STARRED review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWondering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poisoned Pen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781464208928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wendall Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067681308853,"sku":"9781464208928","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d347032c-4c1f-4d77-a1e7-977f9e1fac7c.jpg?v=1690862919","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-luggage-9781464208928","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}