Bestiary

Written by Robert Masello

Narrated by Corey M. Snow

A manuscript illuminated with fantastical creatures said to have roamed the Garden of Eden, the bestiary has been handed down throughout the centuries by one of the Arab world's most prominent families. Commissioned to restore it is the beautiful young art curator, Beth Cox. But it is Beth's husband, Carter-a paleontologist making his own dire discoveries in Los Angeles's famed La Brea Tar Pits-who will be led by the bestiary into a living, breathing menagerie of wonders and horrors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jul 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515975939

Robert Masello

Robert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of many novels and nonfiction books. His historical thrillers with a supernatural bent have been published in seventeen languages and include The Night Crossing, The Jekyll Revelation, The Romanov Cross, The Medusa Amulet, Blood and Ice, and the Amazon Charts bestseller The Einstein Prophecy. His articles and essays have appeared in such prominent publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, People, Newsday, Parade, Glamour, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, and the Wilson Quarterly. An honors graduate of Princeton University, Masello has also taught and lectured nationwide, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to Claremont McKenna College, where he served as visiting lecturer in literature for six years. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he now lives in Santa Monica, California. You may visit him at www.robertmasello.com.

Reviews for Bestiary

[ailinel-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The second Carter Cox novel begins after Carter and his wife Beth move to California to make a new start. Carter makes a significant discover in the tar pit he is excavating, and his team begin to carefully remove an ancient skeleton. Meanwhile Beth is specifically chosen by an eccentric billionaire to translate an illuminated manuscript-- a bestiary-- that has been with his family for a thousand years. Carter is soon pulled into the billionaire's sphere as the man seeks his aid in saving parts of his menagerie, a collection of specimens moved from his family's palace in Iraq that match the fantastic mythical creatures of the bestiary. The novel is an interesting follow up to Vigil, chronicling the next chapter in the Cox family's lives. The protagonists remain interesting and sympathetic, and the research Masello did both on manuscript restoration and paleontology is fascinating. Parts of the novel do reference the events in the first book, and the oddities surrounding Joe Cox and Arius will remain confusing and unexplained to someone unfamiliar with the prior book.