Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas

Series Name: Cyd Redondo Mystery #3
Genre: Humorous
Release: November 2, 2021

When travel agent Cyd Redondo’s client and Jack the Ripper expert Shep Helnikov is found dead in London, she navigates the cutthroat worlds of research librarians, unemployed actors, rodent smugglers and more to find his killer and bring his body back home . . .

When her client and Jack the Ripper expert Shep Helnikov is found dead in London, travel agent Cyd Redondo is on the hook for thirty thousand dollars to return his body home. So when his university offers to cover the costs if she’ll go in person to collect him—and his Ripper research—she jumps at the chance, even if it means bringing her wily uncle along. But no sooner does Cyd arrive in London than her client’s death by natural causes starts to look most unnatural.

Cyd’s only hope for recovering the body and vamoosing back to Brooklyn is to find the killer herself—but she’s thwarted at every turn by Scotland Yard, Shep’s former girlfriends, a sinister mortuary service, an old nemesis, and her taxidermist uncle himself. And when Shep’s apartment is ransacked and a second Ripper expert is found murdered, Cyd knows she’ll have to solve the crimes fast, before someone books her on a one-way trip to the morgue . . .

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Dru’s Short Musing:
All Cyd wanted to do was see a bit of London and bring her client’s body back to Brooklyn. Who knew she would encounter a bevy of people who had other ideas? With Ms. Thomas at the helm of this light drama, you can expect a bit of hilarity and hijinks in this entertaining and delightfully enjoyable mystery. Leave it to the author to create a wickedly solid whodunit that had me immersed in all aspects in the telling of this tale. This well-written comedic tour de force had me devouring each scene not knowing what antics await Cyd and her uncle. There was so much going on with deliciously sinister doings that one had to root for Cyd as she tried to put the pieces together in the puzzling atmosphere she is placed in. And what would this story be without an animal to keep Cyd on her toes. This was another fun-filled and engagingly fabulous story that I did not want to see end. Hoping there are more adventures with Cyd and her friends.

FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the author.