A thirty-year-old priceless jewel theft and a man that really has been stabbed in the back. Can a 52-year-old, slightly plump housewife unravel the mystery in time to save herself from jail?
When housewife, Patricia, catches her husband in bed with her best friend, her reaction isn’t to rant and yell. Instead, she calmly empties the bank accounts and boards the first cruise ship in nearby Southampton.
There she meets the unfairly handsome captain and her appointed butler for the trip – that’s what you get when the only room available is a royal suite!
But with most of the money gone and sleeping off a gin-fuelled pity party for one, she wakes to find herself accused of murder; she was seen leaving the bar with the victim and her purse is in his cabin.
Certain that all she did last night was fall into bed, a race against time begins as she tries to work out what happened and clear her name. But the deputy captain, the man responsible for safety and security onboard, has confined her to her cabin and has no interest in her version of events. Worse yet, as she begins to dig into the dead man's past, she uncovers a secret - there's a giant stolen sapphire somewhere and people are prepared to kill to get their hands on it.
With only a Jamaican butler faking an English accent and a pretty gym instructor to help, she must piece together the clues and do it fast. Or when she gets off the ship in St Kitts, she’ll be in cuffs!
The Missing Sapphire of Zangrabar is the first in a 10-book series as Patricia Fisher rediscovers herself, uncovers a skill for unravelling mysteries, and from the ashes of her marriage, becomes the phoenix she was always meant to be.
This series of books follows the escapades of a middle-aged lady sleuth as she catches her husband in bed with her best friend, empties the bank accounts and goes on a 3 month around the world cruise. Along the way, she will become embroiled in murder, jewel theft, kidnapping, and more as she solves case after case just to keep herself out of trouble. Each of the three books published so far has registered as a best seller in travel humor and can be expected to grow in popularity as more titles are added over the coming months.
The current review rating on Amazon.com is 4.9 stars and the author is gaining circa 200 followers each week. His author rank had been as high as the top 1000 in the US but is currently hovering around 3000.
Each book is approximately 53000 words long and there will be 10 books in total. This series is likely to be a best-seller in any country if given the right advertising.
Sneaking About
Getting out of my suite had been easier than I could have possibly imagined because there was a second door that Mr Schooner had failed to take into account. Even so, it still opened into the same wide passage as the suite’s main door which a pair of burly guards in white uniform were now standing outside.
Barbie and Jermaine had disguised me by putting me in a spare uniform from Jermaine’s closet. In many ways, the outfit choice was brilliant as I had to acknowledge there were so many crew going back and forth that I never paid them any attention. Why would anyone else?
Buoyed by the hope that I was largely invisible, and coupled with the belief that, unless Mr Schooner had circulated my photograph, almost no one knew me, I was still thoroughly nervous during the twenty-four minutes it took to get from my suite to one of the onboard theatres. The Aurelia, like other cruise ships to my knowledge, put on lots of different shows so Barbie and Jermaine were taking me to one of the backstage dressing rooms.
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Translated by Domingo Ottati
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