Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry.
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight.
What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it.
From the Hardcover edition.
I so wanted to like it. I enjoyed the characters! Oh, how I wanted to like this book. I know there are tons of Janet Evanovich fans out there and I always thought at some point I would try one of her books from the beginning. Phoef Sutton is also a new author for me and the storyline behind Curious Minds sounded intriguing.
A fun, frothy read This is a new series for Janet Evanovich, whose Stephanie Plum series has, in my opinion, started to run out of steam. In this series, we have two amateur detectives. Riley Moon (a woman despite her masculine name) is a recent graduate of Harvard in both business and law, so she’s obviously very bright. She now works for mega-mega bank Blane-Grunwald in Washington, D.C. Emerson Knight is a mega-mega billionaire who lives in a Victorian mansion in D.C. with more secret tunnels and trap doors…
Absolutely loved this book – great characters and a fast paced plot I must admit to a bit of trepidation upon ordering this advance review copy to review. Have loved the Stephanie Plum series, was disappointed the author nixed the Barnaby-Hooker series after two books, didn’t like the Lizzy and Diesel series at all and couldn’t get into the Fox and O’Hare series. My verdict on Knight and Moon? Absolutely love this book!