Curious Minds

Riley Moon is a junior analyst at a very large bank. While going through the accounts, she turns up what looks like an embezzlement scheme, one that may lead all the way to the top of the institution.

The trail soon touches the bank's biggest client, Emerson Knight, whose gold has gone missing. Analysts are disappearing too. Emerson is famously eccentric, and he decides to run his own investigation rather than wait for anyone else to act.

The two make an unlikely team. Emerson has a laserlike focus and spots clues that other people walk past. Riley brings a financial mind and street savvy, and she is feisty enough to keep pace with him. Between them, they set out to uncover what may be one of the biggest crimes of the century.

This is a crime thriller with a comic, light tone, built around a pair of mismatched sleuths and a romantic charge between them. It opens a new series, and it is the first book in which Janet Evanovich writes with Phoef Sutton. Expect a quick, playful read in which a financial puzzle drives the plot.