Can't Wait Wednesday/Waiting on Wednesday #622: Big Cult Energy by Jack Friday

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that had been hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine where we spotlighted upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating. I'm now linking up with Can't Wait Wednesday hosted over at Wishful Endings

From the publisher:

Jack Friday's wickedly funny and irrepressible PI Peter Key returns with two new baffling cases.

After surviving a brush with death, Peter Key is debating if he wants to stay in the detective game. On the one hand, his last case left him with a house in Austin, a loyal dog and enough money to coast for ages. On the other, his new home is a wreck, and there’s no better cure for wealth than foundation repairs.

Luckily for Peter, two lucrative cases fall into his lap within twenty-four hours. First, a pair of good-looking young people arrive with a carful of packages addressed to a man they’ve never heard of. The packages have been arriving at their home for days with no explanation, which would be weird enough. Now, however, menacing strangers have started turning up at their doorstep looking for this same mystery man. These strangers wear robes, sandals, and big cult energy.

The next morning, as Peter returns to work for his former mentor—the unflappable PI Grady Bernaisse—he’s handed a second case. A curmudgeonly old woman from the deep country arrives with a surreal story about how a box of her dead grandson’s belongings were stolen from her while she was trapped in the floor of her house. Peter can’t shake the feeling there’s something the woman isn’t telling him, but he also can’t pass up the reward she’s promising.

As these strange investigations unfold, Peter’s search for answers will take him from a tech billionaire’s mansion to the state penitentiary, from a tiny town with some rotten secrets to a remote compound with some dangerous fauna. It will introduce him to a con artist and an honest-to-God cowboy, a pair of very hungry mountain lions and the devoted followers of Lizard-Jesus. Strangest of all, Peter will soon come to suspect that these two cases might not be so separate after all.

Big Cult Energy by Jack Friday is expected out June 1, 2027 from Minotaur Books.

Why am I waiting on this book? The first book in the series, Killer Vibes, was entertaining. It had a good mystery, interesting characters, had some humor, and was well-written. I expect that Big Cult Energy would be similar. "Now, however, menacing strangers have started turning up at their doorstep looking for this same mystery man. These strangers wear robes, sandals, and big cult energy." Makes me think that there is humor to it as well as interesting characters. And add that the two cases, as different as they may seem, might be connected, and it sounds quite possibly entertaining. I want to know what happens to Peter. And I want to know more about the devotees to Lizard-Jesus as well.

What book are you waiting on? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out and maybe add it to our TBR lists. Thanks for coming by and Happy Reading!