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Hera's Revenge
Wendy Dingwall
2011, 213 pages
Fiction
The curator of the National Museum of Athens arrives at work to find his night watchman dead and a priceless dagger and small gold statue of Hera, the original symbolic mother, gone.
At the Pinkerton Travel Agency in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Yvonne Suarez signs up the last person for her customized tour of Greece. This will be the first tour she has set up by herself and she is anxious for it to go well.
Arriving in Athens, her group of 12 is greeted by a dead body on the conveyor belt as they retrieve their luggage at the airport. After the police are convinced no one in the tour group saw the murder, they meet their bus driver, Ari, who fills them in on the history of Athens, the Acropolis and the people of Greece as the tour continues.
All seems to be going well until a member of the group falls on the descent from the Acropolis and confides to Yvonne that she was pushed. Things get worse when another member of the group is hit by a car after a priceless painting is stolen on one of the tour stops. Yvonne struggles to find out what is going on, but who can she trust to help her? Will they all survive the tour and sign up for others?
This book is considered a travel mystery and is the first in a series. The author has a list of characters at the front of the book so you can know a bit about each of them before you begin reading. It involves ordinary people in mysterious circumstances. It is light, easy reading and at times predictable, but if you like a little history and mythology in a story setting you will enjoy this book.
