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When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.

Massacre Pond is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murder
On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found senselessly butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal rights activist who is

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Caught up in her probe into a dangerous new designer drug, reporter Theda Krakow puts her investigation on hold when an animal rights activist, who had been struggling to rescue feral cats on the eve of a ferocious winter storm, is killed in a hit-and-run accident.

"When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe&#x;Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions&#x;between islanders and protestors run high. And when a&#x;woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent&#x;confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed to&#x;increase animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentze&#x;investigate, it becomes increasingly...