num_pages: 225
description: 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 hotels 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 virtuesand some behind-the-scenes digging into the disappearance. Intrigued by the prospect of winning Pilar backand eager as always for freebiesJacob hops the first flight to La Paz Bolivia. Although he hasnt seen Pilar in years Jacob finds her just as intoxicating as he did when they were together. But from the moment he hits the citys 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 womans not-quite boyfriend insists on shadowing Jacobs every move. And amid ancient Incan hillside terraces a world-class hotel conceals a secret that may kill. Advance praise for The Travel Writer Travel doesnt 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
language: None
title: The Travel Writer: A Mystery
publisher: Alibi