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No cover — Wendall Thomas: Lost luggage (2017)

249 pages

English language

Published May 16, 2017

ISBN:: 978-1-4642-0892-8
OCLC Number:: 972385711

(1 review)

"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 …

"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."--

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jayvall reviewed Lost Luggage by Wendall Thomas

Review of 'Lost Luggage' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This just seemed scattered to me. I got the overall plot but I found it difficult to follow in the details. I'm not sure if the problem was in the fact that it was a debut writer or if it was intended to keep the reader off-kilter. Overall I liked it, and might consider reading more from the same author, or even another in this series, but I have to say, I found some of Cyd's quirks annoying rather than funny. I get that it's supposed to be funny that she had 4 outfits and 5 pairs of shoes in her handbag, but it just seemed unrealistic to me. Or maybe the outfits were somewhere else and I just missed it because the book is so scattered? idk

Subjects

Fiction
Wildlife smuggling
Investigation
Murder
Travel agents

Places

Tanzania
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)