Cheap Trills is strikingly original, brightly inventive, masterfully plotted, and truly hilarious.
Birtcher, LA Times bestseller and award-winning author of. -Baron R. the mystic island of Bali comes alive in the lively, intricately researched, and thoroughly entertaining mystery. . . -Dru\'s Book Musings Wendall Thomas is a magician, somehow imbuing the very serious subject of exotic bird poaching with humor, intrigue, exoticism and romance . screwball comedy mystery at its best. . . -James L\'Etoile, award-winning author of Dead Drop and the Detective Emily Hunter series I love, love, love this book . -Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, director and author of the bestseller The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira Bali High! Thomas\'s tight, clever, and witty writing has never been better! -Matt Coyle, award-winning author of the bestselling Rick Cahill series Thomas has created a sidesplittingly hilarious heroine without rival. -Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author Cyd puts the fun in funicular! Sparkling, witty, delightful.
I would follow the fab Cyd Redondo anywhere.
Praise for the Cyd Redondo Mysteries: Instant escape, instant entertainment, and diabolically clever. . .
Now Cyd must navigate Balinese culture, battle songbird smugglers and thieving monkeys, commandeer a funicular railway, infiltrate an underground Tupperware network, and find the real killer, all while trying to keep three hungry, endangered Bali Starling chicks alive in her purse .
Of course, Bridget and her friends wind up stranded and smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation.
So she\'s hurt and furious, but also terrified, when her mother, Bridget, sneaks off with two friends on a Bali tour booked by Cyd\'s archnemesis, Peggy Newsome.
But the travel agent in Cyd only sees its dangers-three active volcanos, six venomous snake species, no wheelchair ramps, about fifteen possible tropical diseases, and the death penalty for smugglers.
Every book club in town is devouring the bestseller and all of Cyd\'s senior citizen clients are dying to head to exotic Bali.
It\'s 2007 and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, has Eat, Pray, Love fever. -Stephen Mack Jones, author of the award-winning August Snow thriller novels After her mother sneaks off on an Eat, Pray, Love tour to Bali that goes horribly wrong, travel agent Cyd Redondo must outwit a ring of songbird smugglers and take on a killer, all while trying to keep three orphaned, endangered Bali Starling chicks alive in her purse.
Cheap Trills is strikingly original, brightly inventive, masterfully plotted, and truly hilarious
