read on my iPhone/Kindle/Book/Audible
2017, Thomas & Mercer
382 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 1/24/18
Goodreads rating: 4.11 - 12,741 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary Montana
First line/s: "The woods were wrong."
My comments: Professor Theo Cray is a brilliant scientist. He's also an incredible bumblefuck. He really cracks me up. He does all sorts of illegal digging up and dancing around, but comes out smelling like a rose. He uses his scientific expertise, ultra-computer savvy, and plain old hutzpa to find a serial killer that no one even realizes exists. And no matter how many times he is hurt or wounded, he just keeps getting up and going like an energizer bunny. This was a fun, though unbelievable, book to read. There's going to be a second one coming out, and I'm sure I'll get a boot out of it, too.
Goodreads synopsis: Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.
As a computational biologist, Theo is more familiar with digital code and microbes than the dark arts of forensic sleuthing. But a field trip to Montana suddenly lands him in the middle of an investigation into the bloody killing of one of his former students. As more details, and bodies, come to light, the local cops determine that the killer is either a grizzly gone rogue… or Theo himself. Racing to stay one step ahead of the police, Theo must use his scientific acumen to uncover the killer. Will he be able to become as cunning as the predator he hunts—before he becomes its prey?
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