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While taking the yearly "otter count" at a marsh near Gunn Landing Harbor, California, zookeeper Theodora Bentley sees Maureen, her favorite otter, swimming around clutching someone's expensive smartphone. When Teddy rescues the device, she discovers a photograph of a murder-in-progress. A hasty search soon turns up the still-warm body of Stuart Booth, PhD, a local Marine Biology instructor.Booth was a notorious sexual harasser of young female students, so the list of suspects is long enough to make Teddy wonder if the crime will ever be solved. But when her friend, Lila, one of Booth's original accusers, is arrested and charged with his murder, Teddy begins to investigate. This creates considerable tension with Teddy's fianc , Sheriff Joe Rejas. He believes the ever-inquisitive zookeeper might be putting her own life at risk, and so orders her to butt out.Concerned for her accused friend, Teddy ignores Joe's ultimatum. She questions not only members of Gunn Landing's moneyed social elite, but also the other side of the financial spectrum - the financially strapped young women willing to do almost anything to pay for their college tuition. Alarmed by Teddy's meddling, Booth's killer fights back - first with a death threat, then via gunshot.In this fifth Gunn Zoo Mystery, Teddy is torn between living a peaceful life on her Monterey Bay houseboat with her three-legged dog DJ Bonz, or moving inland to marry Joe, who comes with kids and a mother who has her own mysterious agenda. The choice is scary for Teddy - who has barely been managing her own many-times-married mother, and her imperious employer, Aster Edwina Gunn, overlord of the famed Gunn Zoo. Teddy's life is further complicated by a wayward snow monkey named Kabuki, taunter of teenage boys. The zookeeper's dedication to her charges - including the anteater, the koala, the llama, and Magnus, the polar bear cub from Iceland (met in Teddy's last adventure, The Puffin of Death), never falters in a cleverly plotted series rich in characters and in animal lore.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1464209901
ISBN-13
9781464209901
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038388380
Product Key Features
Book Title
Otter of Death
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Cozy, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
5
Lc Classification Number
Ps3623.E39
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...the best part here is watching Bentley's investigative juices start to flow (Webb's background as a reporter really comes to the fore here). Bentley (and Webb) just can't help finding out things and telling us about them, like the sugar-daddy phenomenon that has attractive young women offering themselves to rich men to meet soaring tuition costs. There's a website for it. Or the significance of increased sea-otter deaths from toxoplasma gondii . This one will satisfy multiple audiences., Although Webb's fifth series outing takes a light, amusing tone, the engaging conversational style belies the serious issues at play (sexual assault, the environment, endangered species)...Series fans and readers who enjoy Ann Littlewood's zoo-themed mysteries will appreciate this intricate, character-driven work., "There is always a piece of each one of us in her characters. Her settings, plots, and characters are realistic and visual to her readers." - Midwest Book Review, While examining some timely social issues, Webb also delivers lots of edifying information on the animal kingdom in an entry sure to please fans and newcomers alike.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-954240
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Gunn Zoo Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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