Curious Minds

Emerson Knight is an introverted eccentric with no feel for social niceties. He is also brilliant, wealthy, and, by some accounts, good-looking, which is probably all that keeps him off the street. Riley Moon is a Texan with plenty of fire, fresh out of Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and she has just won what she believes is a dream job as a junior analyst at the banking giant Blane-Grunwald. Then her first assignment arrives: she is to keep an eye on Emerson Knight. The job begins as a routine look into money that has gone missing from the Knight account at the bank. It does not stay routine for long. Soon Riley and Emerson are chasing answers about a vanished man and a stash of missing gold, and the search turns into a high-stakes race across the country. Their trail runs through the streets of Washington, D.C., and ends deep in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City. What they uncover is a scheme so twisted that only a megalomaniac could have dreamed it up. Standing in its way are an oddball who charms nearly everyone he meets and a young lawyer who refuses to back down. Curious Minds is the first book in a mystery series that Janet Evanovich wrote with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton. It pairs a mismatched duo with quick banter and a fast pace, and readers of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels will recognize the comic style.