I’m not even sure I can summarize Wendall Thomas’ Fogged Off properly. The third Cyd Redondo mystery is a fast-paced escapade with so many seemingly unrelated incidents that finally fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. And, Cyd. She’s a thirty-year-old travel agent who had never been farther from Brooklyn than New Jersey until her life took an adventurous turn. Her senior clients at Redondo Travel have a travel agent with a heart that couldn’t get any bigger. She’s shown she’s even willing to lie, smuggle, and fight for her clients and endangered species.

This time, Cyd is to bring home the body of one of her favorite clients, Shep Helnikov. Shep died in London where he goes every year. He was a Jack the Ripper expert and tour guide, as well as a teacher at a university there. When a Dean at Brooklyn College offers to pay expenses for Cyd and her Uncle Leon Redondo to travel to London and bring Shep’s body back, she’s eager to make her first trip there.

It’s a good thing Cyd booked rooms at the Savoy Hotel. At least she’ll get to spend some time there after Uncle Leon dumps her, and says he has work to do. Cyd suspects the retired taxidermist is really meeting a woman behind her Aunt Helen’s back, but she can’t catch up with him. And, her first day in London doesn’t leave her time to keep track of Uncle Leon. In her first seven hours there, she says she “Had stormed the embassy. surprised a burglar, climbed five flights of stairs to be patronized, been almost mugged, had drinks in a cave, and been stood up by a relative.”

Of course, it’s Cyd. She’ll make friends to help her investigate Shep’s mysterious death. She’ll run into old acquaintances, such as an ecoterrorist and a former lover, as well as a guy from the Brooklyn neighborhood. She’ll hide an endangered dormouse named Bruce. And, she’ll learn the best people to depend on in a crisis are seniors.

Fogged Off is a fast-paced, energetic adventure for the unforgettable accidental sleuth. Cyd has the most unusual, eccentric set of friends, and the people she meets in London are just as quirky. If you’re looking for an intrepid sleuth who won’t quit, meet Cyd Redondo.

(And, you can “meet” Cyd Redondo tomorrow with her guest post.)

Wendall Thomas’ website is https://www.wendallthomas.com/

Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas. Beyond the Page Publishing, 2021. ISBN 9781954717534 (paperback), 237p.

FTC Full Disclosure – The author sent a copy of the book, hoping I would review it.