The Lost & Found Department Released
This new mystery novel is free on Amazon until May 31.
Are you a mystery novel fan? If so, check out The Lost & Found Department: Book One. From today until May 31, the e-book is free on Amazon!
Our past often dictates who we are today and who we will be in the future. What happens when your origin story is a mystery?
We first meet Nathan Jameson as a four-year-old boy whose father abandons him at the customer service / Lost & Found counter of an A&P grocery store. Twenty-nine years later, after brutal years in foster care, Jameson now owns a bookstore in Southern New Jersey and an investigation business named Lost & Found Investigations.
With his bookstore assistant manager and co-owner of the Investigations business, Heather Sandberg, Jameson takes on a new case involving a young woman, Victoria Anderson, whose grandmother has just passed away. Anderson, like Jameson, never knew her parents because they died in a single-engine plane crash in 1999. Now, Anderson is being followed; her home was searched, as was that of her grandmother’s home, and she enlists the help of Nathan and Heather.
What they soon discover is that her grandmother is not related to her; a Russian FSB agent thinks Anderson has four million dollars that belong to him and is seeking revenge for the death of his parents 25 years ago.
Nathan and Heather then investigate Victoria’s mysterious parents, the reason why a neighbor posed as Victoria’s grandmother, and why the Russian FSB, the CIA, and the FBI are following her.
While Nathan and Heather investigate, they discover that a secretive financial group, known only as The Enterprise, has been watching, protecting, and even financially assisting Nathan without his knowledge. We also meet Rose Zhang, who runs the Hug In A Mug coffee shop inside the bookstore, Mexican immigrants Diego Mendez and his family, who own Vincenzo’s Pizza next to the bookstore, and Realtor Kirsten Petrocelli, whose sexually charged relationship with Nathan hides a dark secret.
This novel is the first in a series titled “The Lost & Found Department.”
Get this book for free on Amazon.
About the Creator
Frank Racioppi
I am a South Jersey-based author who is a writer for the Ear Worthy publication, which appears on Vocal, Substack, Medium, Blogger, Tumblr, and social media. Ear Worthy offers daily podcast reviews, recommendations, and articles.
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Comments (1)
I'm a mystery fan, so this sounds right up my alley. Free e-book until May 31? Sign me up! It's interesting how Nathan's past shaped him. Makes me wonder how my past experiences have influenced my own path. And all those different characters and their secrets? Gonna be a wild ride trying to figure it all out. Can't wait to start reading.