Wesley’s Mine

About the Book

This is the final book in the series about two people, Mac Smith and Carice Offstrop, who have set up an inquiry agency together in Auckland, New Zealand. Mac and his wife, Deborah, who is pregnant with her first child, have been married for just over a year, and Carice is engaged to Desmond, who manages a hotel in Auckland. Their office is located above the Moray Restaurant, which is situated in the business centre of Auckland. Living in an attic bedroom above the office with his dog, Holborn, is Professor Tymn, who lectures at Auckland University. Mac and Deborah have become friends with a couple named Caspar and Phoebe who own a farm near Auckland and who have involved them in their search for a lost gold mine in South Island, which they believe is located in Skippers Canyon. While solving their unusual cases, Mac has been reunited with an old friend from military intelligence who continually lures him back into the world of espionage, intrigue, and betrayal, where his life is often at risk. This exciting finale contains several twists that not even the author saw coming and will keep you reading late into the night.

About the Author

Lucidus Smith is British and was born in South London at the end of the Second World War. He is the youngest of four children, his father working as a wagon maker on the railways and his mother a housewife. He left school at sixteen and first worked for a London stockbroker as a junior clerk and then joined a city financial group, where he qualified as a company secretary. He next worked for IBM in a variety of roles for twenty years before going back to being a company secretary in 1991 with Lexmark International UK Ltd. He retired in 2001. He married Elizabeth in 1969, and they have three sons, all of whom are married and have children. Lucidus first started writing in 2005 on the premise that “everyone has a book in them,” and his first book, Blossom in Winter - Frost in Spring, was eventually published in 2010. His second and third books, which were first a prequel and then a sequel to the first book, were published in 2011 and 2012. Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 of The Red Rabbit Inquiry Agency are a spin-off from the Blossom trilogy.