Quicksand, by Gigi Pandian (Gargoyle Girl Productions, 2014)
Historian Jaya Jones becomes a pawn in a criminal mastermind’s complex plan to rob the Louvre in Paris—and there’s far more at stake than she’s been told. On the plus side, she’s reunited with her mysterious sort-of-boyfriend Lane Peters for this mad heist.
Quicksand takes Jaya from her San Francisco home to Paris and then to other locations in France as she and Lane try to outwit their enemy and somehow keep from breaking the law.
This is book 3 in the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt series, and it’s a lot of fun with quirky characters and lots of action. Definitely high-stakes physically, professionally, and emotionally for Jaya and Lane, but not the sort of scary to keep a reader up at night. (You might be up late reading just to see what comes next, but that’s a different matter!)
In addition to the Jaya Jones series, multi-award-winning author Gigi Pandian also writes The Accidental Alchemist Mysteries and The Secret Staircase Mysteries.
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[Review copy from the public library.]
