The Ex-President

✍ Scribed by Jeff Soloway

• Book ID: 110815234
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 773 KB
• Series: Travel Writer Mystery #3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780804178181

✦ Synopsis

In award-winning author Jeff Soloway's second Travel Writer Mystery, quick-witted Jacob Smalls and his outrageous mother cruise into highly dangerous waters.

Jacob Smalls manages to land the ultimate freebie: a two-berth stateroom on a cruise to a private tropical island. To everyone's surprise, Jacob invites as a guest his prickly mother, an olive branch from son to mother after years of ill will. Once aboard, Jacob is determined not to let her characteristically scathing sarcasm spoil his trip. But her relentless prying proves much more dangerous to swallow.

Their journey begins ominously: they discover the ship's trumpet player has just died under mysterious circumstances. Ever curious, Jacob quietly suspects murder, but his mother's tactless questions attract unwanted attention. When criminal accusations are flung Jacob's way, he must use every last ounce of cunning to sneak off the boat and uncover the truth. But while the ship hides a mystery Jacob...