For once, operations at the enormous zoo/theme park appear to be running smoothly and Teddy Fitzroy is finally able to give detective work a rest. But then a local lion is accused of killing a famous dog, and the dog's owner goes on a crusade to have the cat hunted. But it looks like the lion might have been framed, and a renegade animal activist wants help to prove it. Soon, Teddy finds himself wrapped up in the middle of his most bizarre, hilarious,...

"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...