Game
Drive by Marie Moore
is the second book in the “Sydney Marsh” mystery series. Publisher: Camel
Press, April 2013
Sidney Marsh is a Mississippi-born, New
York-based travel agent. She and her best friend and business partner, Jay
Wilson, are struggling to remain standing in a world where the ground is
shifting. Their boss at Itchy Feet Travel has a new scheme to attract
customers–safari tour packages. He sends Sidney and Jay on a familiarization
trip to Cape Town and safari country to check out the accommodations and
confirm that the experience lives up to the hype in the brochures.
Sidney’s looking forward to a deluxe dream of
a trip and so is Jay, despite the fact that he is deathly afraid of animals,
both wild and domesticated. Their experience will be far wilder than either could
have imagined. First Sidney stumbles upon a suspicious rendezvous and possible
murder scene in Cape Town. After Sidney’s pocket is picked on a cable-car ride
up Table Mountain, she suspects that someone in their group is an imposter, a
suspicion that is soon confirmed. At Leopard Drive–the luxury game lodge near
Kruger National Park that serves as their base camp–one of the other agents on
the “fam trip” turns up dead.
Sidney carries on a risky flirtation with a
handsome Afrikaner, who may or may not be the latest manifestation of the
“Marsh Curse,” which seems to jinx her every relationship. And Sidney and Jay
discover that they have far more to fear from predatory humans than wild
animals.
Sydney
and Jay are off to South Africa to check out a new tourist destination for
their travel agency and once again, Sydney stumbles upon an incident and as
they say, “trouble follows” in this fast moving drama where danger lurks around
every corner in Africa’s natural wildlife habitat. This is a great read that will
have all your senses on alerts as this page-turning tome propels you on a
journey of suspense and intrigue. The author knows how to keep me interested by
creating a well-crafted mystery that kept me guessing throughout most of this
story with some surprises that I didn’t see coming. With a vividly picturesque
landscape as the backdrop and surrounded by a great supporting cast, this
safari mystery adventure is an amazing ride and I’m looking forward to their
next expedition from this terrific series.
Dru
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