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"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."

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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

Laugh-out-loud funny and enchantingly ridiculous... a highly entertaining... --Jessica Howard Shelf Awareness Wendall Thomas' debut mystery, Lost Luggage, is a romp that may remind readers of the best of Janet Evanovich or Tonya Kappes. But, Cyd Redondo, narrator and amateur sleuth, may actually be more reminiscent of MacGyver. She's resourceful, intrepid, and uses her shoes to get out of so many jams...Lost Luggage is a funny romp with a little bit of sex and a lot of humor. As I said, think of Cyd Redondo as MacGyver on an African adventure. --Lesa Holstine Lesa's Book Critiques

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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).

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