The Seven of Swords

When a penguin goes missing from the Como Zoo on Halloween night, Lisa Fernandez is terrified that she will lose her internship at the University of Minnesota's exchange program with the zoo. Feeling in some way responsible, but unsure who to turn to, she does a quick internet search and decides to hire a private investigative firm. While their website looked boring and respectable, and not at all the type of place that would care about penguins or investigate the unexplainable, Reddit and their listing reviews say otherwise.

 

Maebh Kazmer recently returned to her family in the Twin Cities after completing her bachelor's in Boston MS and found herself the most junior member of the family's PI firm. This means she gets the really stupid cases. This time, the Dumbest Case Award goes to a client whose day job as an intern at the Como Zoo led her to witness the disappearance of a penguin. Maebh is prepared to charge Ms. Fernandez full price for wasting her time when she realizes that not only is Lisa not pranking the firm, but there might be more to the penguin situation than meets the eye. The more Maebh dives into the investigation the more strange connections emerge. How could a penguin possibly be connected to the high-profile murder that their firm is already tangled up in?