by Andrea Elena Ibanez, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $9.99 print, $2.99 Kindle
Monkey business is probably not a strong enough description for the goings-on at the Colter Primate Center. When an unpopular researcher turns up dead, Sgt. Steve Thibeault’s investigation is met with a web of academia-infused deceit, professional reputations at stake, and an abundance of suspects. No one, it seems, lacked a motive for wishing the abrasive Walter Benson dead. Tucson-based author Ibanez has set this highly-readable crime novel in 1990s’s North Carolina, which gives regional flavor to the lively point-counterpoint dialog between the southern-fried detective and clueless-about-the-South Gemma Faranese, who is the lab’s New York-bred communications director, Thibeault’s potential love-interest, and—possibly—a killer. Mystery fans will be glad to know that this is the first in a planned series of three mysteries featuring Sgt. Steve Thibeault. The second title in the Carolina Trilogy, “A Dowitcher’s Dirge,” is also available.
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