Name: The Travel Writer

Author: Jeff Soloway
Year: 2014
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Mystery

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9780804178174
0804178178
Award-winning author Jeff Soloway debuts an entertaining new mystery series featuring a globe-trotting, caper-solving travel writer with a witty voice and a penchant for landing in sticky situations. At a posh South American resort tucked into the lush jungles of the Andes, an American journalist has gone missing, leaving the hotel'€™s PR agent, Pilar Rojas, with an international incident on her hands. Which is why she offers her ex-lover, travel writer Jacob Smalls, an all-expenses-paid trip to the resort in exchange for a puff piece extolling its virtues'€”and some behind-the-scenes digging into the disappearance. Intrigued by the prospect of winning Pilar back'€”and eager, as always, for freebies'€”Jacob hops the first flight to La Paz, Bolivia. Although he hasn'€™t seen Pilar in years, Jacob finds her just as intoxicating as he did when they were together. But from the moment he hits the city'€™s cobbled streets, Jacob attracts all the wrong kinds of attention. Political flunkies and goons of all stripes try to scare him off the trail, while the missing woman'€™s not-quite boyfriend insists on shadowing Jacob'€™s every move. And amid ancient Incan hillside terraces, a world-class hotel conceals a secret that may kill. Advance praise for The Travel Writer '€œTravel doesn'€™t just broaden the mind; it can also get you killed. Sassy, cynical Jacob Smalls is an ideal guide for journeying into unknown territories.'€'€”Christopher Fowler, author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery series


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