Dangerous Minds
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. 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. 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. 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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The story starts off with Riley Moon still trying to figure out the mess that is Emerson's inheritance when his old mentor cum monk Wayan Bagus shows up to seek his help in finding his missing Samoan island of solitude. All three of them along with Emerson's cousin Vernon proceed to find out more details about the island and end up discovering a conspiracy and cover up involving missing hikers in national parks, mantle plumes, a Spec Ops murderous loon called Tin Man, strange matter and ultimately Armageddon. What follows is the groups' silly adventures and escapades through volcanoes and lava tubes; finally ending in saving each other and the whole world.
The writing is funny with a sarcastic sense of humor, all the four main characters are crazy in their own way but I especially enjoyed the monk and his little doses of very untimely wisdom. Even though they are being chased my killers, they always manage to be on the periphery of danger and none of them really gets hurt. They always find their way out of tough situations quite easily and without spilling a lot of blood. However, the adventure is not why this book works; it's the characters and their eccentricities and the banter and the underlying craziness that makes this a breezy enjoyable read.
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2 primary booksKnight and Moon is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton.
