Jaya Jones is a historian with a reputation for finding
lost
treasure, so she's not surprised when someone arrives at
her
office wanting her help to solve a mystery. What is
surprising is that one of her long-dead relatives figures
into that mystery. When her would-be client is found
murdered, she knows she must solve the puzzle of an
antique
treasure map before she becomes the next victim.
PIRATE VISHNU goes back and forth between telling the
story
of Jaya's great-great uncle, Anand, and showing Jaya's
present-day hunt for a treasure that Anand hid more than
one-hundred years ago. Author Gigi Pandian never reveals
too much, but lets us follow along as Jaya searches for
clues, interprets them, then uses the information to find
the next piece of the puzzle.
Jaya and the other characters are all very much
individuals,
with different ways of speaking and responding to the
situations they face. It makes the world Pandian has
created
very real, and that ups the suspense, especially when Jaya
is unsure whether one of her friends has betrayed her.
PIRATE VISHNU is the second book in the Jaya Jones
series.
It's not necessary to have read the first book, Artifact,
to
enjoy this one. I highly recommend PIRATE VISHNU for
readers who like contemporary and historical mysteries.
A century-old treasure map of San Francisco’s Barbary
Coast.
Sacred riches from India. Two murders, one hundred years
apart. And a love triangle… Historian Jaya Jones has her
work cut out for her.
1906. Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake,
Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor
of
Jaya’s who came to the U.S. from India draws a treasure
map…
Present Day. Over a century later, the cryptic treasure
map
remains undeciphered. From San Francisco to the southern
tip
of India, Jaya pieces together her ancestor’s secrets,
maneuvers a complicated love life she didn’t count on, and
puts herself in the path of a killer to restore a revered
treasure.
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