Cheap Trills

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Winner of the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery of 2023!</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Cheap Trills</em> is strikingly original brightly inventive masterfully plotted and truly hilarious. -Stephen Mack Jones author of the award-winning August Snow thriller novels</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>After her mother sneaks off on an <em>Eat Pray Love</em> 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.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>It's 2007 and Bay Ridge Brooklyn has <em>Eat Pray Love</em> fever. Every book club in town is devouring the bestseller and all of Cyd's senior citizen clients are dying to head to exotic Bali. 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.  </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>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. Of course Bridget and her friends wind up stranded and smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation. 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 . . .</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Praise for the Cyd Redondo Mysteries:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Instant escape instant entertainment and diabolically clever. I would follow the fab Cyd Redondo anywhere. -Hank Phillippi Ryan <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Cyd puts the fun in funicular! Sparkling witty delightful. -Lou Diamond Phillips actor director and author of the bestseller <em>The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Bali High! Thomas's tight clever and witty writing has never been better! -Matt Coyle award-winning author of the bestselling Rick Cahill series</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thomas has created a sidesplittingly hilarious heroine without rival. -James L'Etoile award-winning author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dead Drop</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the Detective Emily Hunter series </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>I love love love this book . . . screwball comedy mystery at its best. -<em>Dru's Book Musings</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Wendall Thomas is a magician somehow imbuing the very serious subject of exotic bird poaching with humor intrigue exoticism and romance . . . the mystic island of Bali comes alive in the lively intricately researched and thoroughly entertaining mystery. -Baron R. Birtcher <em>LA Times</em> bestseller and award-winning author of <em>Reckoning</em> and <em>Fistful of Rain</em> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p>