Cayman Conundrum: A Liz Adams Mystery

Wilder’s lively fourth whodunit featuring PI Liz Adams (after A Christmas Conundrum) sees her tracking down her new husband’s missing friend. Liz has just married her former client Brad O’Connor. After she helped Brad identify who was hacking his identity-theft protection company, he and his business partner, Tim Knight, sold the business. Tim has moved to the island of Grand Cayman to try his hand at writing, planning to fold his research about the area’s history of money laundering into his first novel. Before he can complete his manuscript, however, he vanishes. When Liz and Brad, who are in Grand Cayman for their honeymoon, learn about Tim’s disappearance, they determine to find him. Their probe is made more complicated when it intersects with that of Liz’s old flame, JP, a French intelligence operative who’s been assigned to investigate money laundering in the Caymans. Wilder’s answer to the question of Tim’s whereabouts is both logical and surprising, and the tropical setting offers plenty of pleasures for armchair travelers. Fans of Carolyn Hart’s cozies will enjoy themselves. (Self-published)