Sparkle Hayter: Bandit Queen Boogie

From the Publisher:
Meet Blackie and Chloe, two best friends who decide, over tequila shots at the campus bar, to spend the summer after graduation backpacking through Europe. Blackie wants to go a little crazy -- drink, smoke, flirt, meet men, have a romance or two. Chloe wants to nurse her broken heart and bury her nose in a book. One is dark and boisterous, the other blond and quiet. Together, they are an irresistible combination to men... married men, to be exact.

The girls upgrade their accommodations from hostels to hotels when they let the men who've been wrecking their trip finance their fun. Accepting these cheaters' invitations to their hotel suites, Blackie and Chloe beat them at their own game and make off with cash and whatever valuables are at hand while the men sleep it off. It's the perfect crime (no married man would want to explain why he had two young coeds in his hotel room, now would he?) until they hit the wrong mark in Monte Carlo. When their latest "victim" turns up dead, the gig is up... and the Bandit Queens are on the run.

Chloe and Blackie's ride through Europe gets a whole lot wilder with a bevy of wacky characters in hot pursuit of the two women who were last seen with the dead man and his golden statue. Will they be arrested, strain their friendship, or worse?

Bandit Queen Boogie is a wild goose chase of mistaken identity and international intrigue. If only every trip to Europe was this much fun.

Sparkle Hayter: Bandit Queen Boogie. No Exit Press, ISBN: 184243134X (July, 2005), 320 p., £6.99