Curious Minds (Knight and Moon Series #1)

by Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton

Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Janet Evanovich, 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.

Praise for Curious Minds
 
“The one-liners fly at a ferocious pace. . . . Evanovich fans will find this closer in style to the Stephanie Plum novels.”—Booklist
 
“Evanovich’s comedic timing and pacing are evident on every page.”—Daily Republic

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553392685
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Series:	Knight and Moon Series , #1
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Knight and Moon series, the Fox and O’Hare series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Troublemaker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author.
 
Phoef Sutton is a writer, producer, and novelist who has written for shows such as Cheers, NewsRadio, and Boston Legal. Sutton is also the winner of two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award.

Hometown:

Hanover, New Hampshire

Date of Birth:

April 22, 1943

Place of Birth:

South River, New Jersey

Education:

B.A., Douglass College, 1965

Website:

http://www.evanovich.com

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Editorial Reviews

07/25/2016
This entertaining series launch from bestseller Evanovich and Sutton, coauthors of 2015's Wicked Charms, introduces Emerson Knight, an eccentric millionaire, and Riley Moon, a junior analyst at mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Moon is sent by the bank to placate Emerson, who's demanding to, literally, see his gold. But after visiting Emerson at his Washington, D.C., mansion, Mysterioso Manor, she winds up driving Emerson to the bank (in his '93 Bentley Turbo R), where he confronts bank head Werner Grunwald. Other Grunwald family members hold powerful positions: Hans Grunwald runs the National Security Agency, and Manfred Grunwald is about to be sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Emerson wants to find black sheep brother Günter Grunwald, who has disappeared, and Riley joins the hunt. With sly references to pulp hero the Shadow and to the creators of Ellery Queen, the authors send their odd couple on a harrowing journey that leads, with zany humor, from the Federal Reserve gold vaults in Manhattan to top-secret Area 51 in Nevada and a monstrous conspiracy that promises to be only the first for the duo. Agent: Peter Evanovich. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

2016-07-04
Nancy Drew meets Goldfinger in this series kickoff from the indefatigable Evanovich and Emmy-winning TV writer Sutton.Riley Moon is low woman on the totem pole at Blane-Grunwald, so she’s the sacrificial victim dispatched to Mysterioso Manor, in Washington, D.C., to persuade its eccentric lord, Emerson Knight, to review his portfolio. Knight—think of an autistic savant played by George Clooney—has other ideas. He demands to withdraw all the gold Blane-Grunwald is holding for him, or at least take a look at it. And the longer he talks, the less crazy the idea sounds, because he presents Riley with more and more compelling evidence that some highly placed forces have schemed to replace vast quantities of the gold bars the nation has locked away in high-security vaults with cunning counterfeits in order to inflate the value of their own unadulterated holdings. The obvious culprits are the family members of underachieving banker Günter Grunwald, missing and increasingly presumed dead after he smelled a rat among his brothers: Gen. Hans Grunwald, who heads the National Security Agency; Judge Manfred Grunwald, recently nominated to the Supreme Court; and Werner Grunwald, head honcho at Blane-Grunwald. But identifying them is a long step short of neutralizing them, especially when they have neutralizing plans of their own. Emmy and Riley—or Knight and Moon, as the series bills them—quickly establish exactly the sort of salt-and-pepper rapport fans of Stephanie Plum’s adventures among male animals (Notorious Nineteen, 2013, etc.) would expect, this time spiced with high-speed, low–IQ action sequences that are a specialty of Sutton’s (Crush, 2015, etc.). What’s missing from the usual Evanovich solo and duet performances is low comedy. Beneath the obligatory trappings of the hero’s non sequiturs and pet armadillo, there’s surprisingly little in this wildly overscaled caper to tickle the funny bone.

Kirkus Reviews

The one-liners fly at a ferocious pace. . . . Evanovich fans will find this closer in style to the Stephanie Plum novels.”—Booklist
 
“Evanovich’s comedic timing and pacing are evident on every page.”—Daily Republic

From the Publisher

Narrator Lorelei King makes the improbable delightful and the silliness entertaining. Emerson Knight, multimillionaire eccentric with social skills firmly planted on the autism spectrum, wants to remove all his gold reserves from their high-security vaults. He believes someone has been tampering with the gold. Riley Moon, recent Harvard Law graduate, is sent to appease Knight at his Mysterioso Manor. Evanovich and Sutton deliver a shiny product but miss the mark on genuine humor. Nonetheless, King is terrific as put-upon Aunt Myra, who deals with Emerson as well as a zebra, an armadillo, and a monkey, and who saves everyone’s bacon. Watch for the continuing adventures of Knight and Moon, hopefully, delivered by King. This sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2016 - AudioFile