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Title: The Most Dangerous Species
Subtitle: Detective Dex Stafford Mystery, Book 2
Author: Mar Preston
Narrator: James C. Lewis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-14-17
Publisher: Pertinacity Press
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
A gruesome murder in a cat rescue sanctuary splinters animal lovers and animal haters in a serene California mountain village. Village patrol officer, and animal activist, Holly Seabright, intrudes herself in the investigation to clear the name of the founder, a heroine among the animal rescue community.
Hot shot homicide investigator Dex Stafford battles a cat allergy and a dislike for a place without a Starbucks - or even streetlights. Nothing goes his way. He and his partner disagree over the course of the investigation.
A city boy in the countryside, Stafford pursues the killer, but the solution to the crime hits him from a direction he never saw coming.
Told with humor and a sharp observation of village life, the listener follows an unlikely pair of investigators in a prickly alliance through a case with a disturbing psychological twist.
Members Reviews:
Murder and amour in a California mountain village
Having previously read the entertaining Payback, the first book in Mar Preston's "Detective Dex Stafford Mystery" series, which introduced the crime-fighting romantic pairing of Dex Stafford and Holly Seabright, I very much enjoyed this second book in the Dex-and-Holly series. When I was young I read all the Nancy Drew books, and the author's spunky heroine, Holly, strikes me as a Nancy Drew for grownups! This return to the forest setting of California's Sierra Mountain Village, which allows for a gripping encounter with an angry mother bear, offers several nasty possible perps who are even scarier. The story ends with a question mark (no, not about its murder, which is very satisfactorily solved). I'm looking forward to that question's resolution in the next episode.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I enjoyed this book so much! Mar Preston's character leap off the page, there is humour, skulduggery and cats, cats, cats! LOL
As an animal lover, with an emphasis on cats, dogs, and my pet rats, I always enjoy a book which has animals at its centre. Although this book was not about the animals as such, they were a very prominent part of it.
Holly is a delightful character and I certainly want to meet her again. To this end, Mar Preston, you have your orders - another "Holly" novel, please!!
"Dangerous Species" is an intricately plotted story with great imagery and believable characters and I highly recommend it.
Insider Knowledge
Because I live in the same little village in the National Forest above LA that Mar Preston does, I can't help but enjoy her Sierra Mountain Village stories for the vast wealth of information it reveals to me about our home. She is so much more observant than I am.
I love the characters she brings alive and the details with which she describes settings. In the Most Dangerous Species her use of knowledge of police procedures and their need for overwhelming evidence was spot on. I actually felt the police frustration and "the bad guys" cocky assurance.
The only thing I have to say to Mar Preston is "Please don't let Holly leave the Mountain."
Another winning Preston book not to miss.
I'm always waiting for the next Preston book and as expected this one made the wait worthwhile. If you've read Payback you get chance to reconnect with the main characters, Dex and Holly, two law enforcement officers with different roles working together in a small mountain community.