Undone in Uluru: A Traveler Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Independently Published (August 25, 2020)
~150 Pages

Synopsis

A missing person + a do-gooder father + a new friend = An adventure in which Naomi finds more than a murderer.

Naomi is off to Australia with her father in her latest vacation. She expects a drama-free trip to Oz with her dependable father. That all ends at check-in when they encounter a young woman searching for her boyfriend. Fellow traveler Daniel drags them into a search for the missing man in the Red Centre. In between sunset tours, daytime hikes, and Vegemite tastings, Naomi wanders ever closer to danger.

Guest Post

Today we have one of the characters from this book, Naomi, that is here to share some insights into her character.

Naomi

I zipped up my luggage, the highlighter yellow luggage my mother gave me for Christmas, before our trip to Iceland together.

Pre-Iceland I thought it was a hideous piece that I would never use. I thought she chose bright yellow because it’s exactly what I wouldn’t want. I thought she chose it just to annoy me.

In order to avoid a barrage of snarky comments from my mother, I used the four-wheeled hard-sided luggage for our trip to Reykjavik. I envisioned its demise while we there in order to prevent further trips with it.

But I was wrong. My mother was right. (You have no idea how much that pains me to say.)

The luggage is lightweight, easy to use, and easy to find. If given a choice I would have chosen the blue one the brand had. But the yellow one was really the best one for me.

I placed my e-reader in my carry-on bag. It was loaded with plenty of fiction books from Australian writers for the journey. It is a long flight. A very long flight.

I bet my Dad’s e-reader was loaded with books on Australia too. But no fiction. Most likely it was biographies of Australians, books on the history of the continent, with a focus on the Aboriginals, and books on Australian nature, with at least one about the Outback.

(If my mother was traveling ‘Down Under’, her tablet would have been loaded with Hugh Jackman films.)

My father raised me from the time my parents divorced over fifteen years ago. We’ve always got along. Something I could not have said about my other travel companions prior to our trips to South Africa and Iceland.

My mother has asked a lot of questions about my upcoming trip. I had few answers. My father planned it all. I was just tagging along.

My sister had joked I wouldn’t meet anyone like Osp on this trip. I met Osp, Thor to my mother and sister, in our Icelandic hotel. We went out a few times but he didn’t like all the time I spent talking to his friend, Þröstur. He was a police officer and I had questions about Milo’s death! I don’t regret my decision.

I can’t imagine getting pulled into looking for a murderer on a vacation with my sensible father. He would encourage me to leave it to local authorities.

Maybe I would have time for a romance.

A little romance on vacation would be nice…

About the Author

A. R. Kennedy lives in Long Beach, New York, with her two pups. She works hard to put food on the floor for them. As her favorite T-shirt says, ‘I work so my dog can have a better life’. She’s an avid traveler. But don’t worry. While she’s away, her parents dote on their grand-puppies even more than she does. Her writing is a combination of her love of travel, animals, and the journey we all take to find ourselves.

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