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Rude Awakenings: A Novel of the Terribly Acronymed Detective Club (Book 2)

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Two years have passed since the five members of the Lawrence Street Detective Club reunited in the novel, "We Find What Is Lost," picking up where they left off thirty years earlier, to help Rachel clear her name and take down the man who framed her for embezzling. Since then, Al and Rachel married, but Rachel and Lauren haven't stopped seeing each other, and things take a darker, sexier turn in this follow-up novel, which opens with Al and Lauren waking up in each other's arms with no memory of how they got there and no idea where their spouses went. Joe and Rachel are missing, and Al, Lauren and Sunny must piece together what happened to them the night before and track down Joe and Rachel with whatever tools they have at hand, getting help from a friend from Lauren's own past. Someone has it out for one of the members of the club, and Lauren, whose uniqueness was only hinted at in the last novel, takes centre stage solving this mystery, with past events from the last novel, revisited through her point of view, providing the clues.All Rights Reserved

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