The Red Rabbit Inquiry Agency - Book Two

About the Book

Book 2 continues with the story of Mac Smith and Carice Offstrop, who have set up an inquiry agency together in Auckland, New Zealand. Mac and his wife, Deborah, 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 and is owned and managed by Stephen Newn, Desmond’s brother. Living in an attic bedroom above the office with his dog, Holborn, is Professor Tymn, who lectures at Auckland University and often assists them with their cases. Mac and Deborah have become friends with a couple named Caspar and Phoebe Primrose, who own a small farm north of Auckland and who have involved them in their search for a lost gold mine. This book does not contain bad language, gratuitous violence, or sex scenes.

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 worked as a wagon maker on the railways and his mother, a housewife. He grew up in a loving and supportive family and, at an early age, was encouraged to go to Sunday school and then join the Boys Brigade, which he continued to be a member of until his midforties. 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 eventually qualified as a company secretary. He next worked for IBM as a systems analyst in order to “find out” about computers and stayed with them doing a whole range of challenging and absorbing jobs for twenty years. He then went back to being a company secretary in 1991 when Lexmark International (a computer printer manufacturer) was created out of a small part of IBM’s business and worked happily in that role until he retired in 2001. He married Elizabeth in 1969, and they have now celebrated over forty years of wedded bliss together and have three sons, all of whom are married and have children. Their love affair with Australia and New Zealand started in 1996 when they first visited both the North and South Islands of New Zealand and enjoyed themselves so much that they have returned there many times since. When they retired in 2001, they started to spend the British winters in Western Australia to avoid the cold and damp and return each year to enjoy the Mediterranean lifestyle. Lucidus first started writing in 2005 on the premise that “everyone has a book in them” and really enjoyed all the research he did for the first book, Blossom in Winter—Frost in Spring, which 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. The Red Rabbit Inquiry Agency books 1 and 2 are a spin-off from the Blossom trilogy.