<b>The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Janet Evanovich.</b><br><br> Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a volcano. And now it's gone. Poof! Vanished without a trace.<br><br> Brilliant and boyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable, improbable mystery. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Since a crack team isn't available, he enlists Riley Moon and his cousin Vernon. Riley Moon has a Harvard business degree and can shoot the eyes out of a grasshopper at fifty feet, but she can't figure out how to escape the vortex of Emerson Knight's odd life. Vernon has been Emerson's loyal and enthusiastic partner in crime since childhood. He now lives in an RV behind Emerson's house.<br><br> Together, this ragtag, mismatched trio will embark on a worldwide investigation that will expose a conspiracy one hundred years in the making.
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A fun, humorous romp
When Emerson Knight’s friend Wayan Bagus, a buddhist monk, discovers the island where he had been living as a hermit has gone missing, Knight and his impromptu, unofficial team of investigators go on an adventure to find out what could possibly have happened to make an entire island disappear. Their questions lead to a larger mystery that has been guarded by the National Park Service for a century, and as they shed light on the conspiracy, they have to dodge bullets—and hatchets—because someone doesn’t want the truth known. I don’t remember much from the first Knight and Moon book, Curious Minds, but I didn’t need to. This is classic Evanovich. Superficial but thoroughly entertaining storytelling, characters that manage to be developed without much backstory, and a fascinating, exciting suspense plot. It was SO funny. Rarely books make me laugh out loud (in a good way), but this managed it several times. I want badly to describe my favorite jokes, but I don’t want to ruin it. I went in knowing nothing but the characters, not even the jacket blurb, and I think I enjoyed it more without being able to anticipate the gags. Emerson Knight is tall, dark, and handsome, an eccentric of Sherlockian flavor. At first you think he’s going to be annoying, but he’s really rather mellow. He’s also rich, which bothered me a little, because it’s pure convenience, as is the fact that he had a geophysicist friend and her helicopter-driving father. The story wouldn’t have been nearly as fun or fast-paced—or possible altogether—if they actually had to worry about funding or talking to the right people. But that’s fiction for ya. Riley Moon is the straight man (or woman, as it were), representing both the general audience and the ordinary 99 percenters. She’s a bit cliche in that she grew up in rural Texas with a county sheriff father and four brothers, and that explains why she can hike and shoot, etc. Her background is as convenient as Knight’s, honestly, but it works here, because ...
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