Monkey Puzzle
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Now, in the blank-faced and mazed city, death had become vicious and secret and cold. Somewhere out there, an ego was coiled, waiting.
Winner of a Golden Dagger award, Paula Gosling’s Monkey Puzzle introduces us to Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive cop, an oddball, and (occasionally) a genius.
When Grantham University’s most unpopular professor is viciously murdered there are a myriad of potential suspects, and one of whom happens to be connected to Stryker’s past . . .
The murderous attacks continue. The city and the campus panic. Stryker is trapped in a maze of conflicting motives, emotions and clues. And at the center of the maze awaits – a monster.
Paula Gosling
Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has since garnered both the Silver and Gold Daggers. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Many people may have missed Monkey Puzzle, but this is again a wonderful story by the author of the Gruffalo.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The baby monkey's exasperation at the butterfly's utter failure to identify mama monkey is pretty funny. (Plus, can the butterfly really not remember instructions from one animal to the next?) And it's brightly illustrated. But otherwise this one just didn't do it for me. ... update a few days later: But, while it didn't do much for me, it made an impression on my 21mo, who referenced the book several times in the next few days.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely story that raises the issue of metamorphosis and teaches children about the ways we can describe animals.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The baby monkey's exasperation at the butterfly's utter failure to identify mama monkey is pretty funny. (Plus, can the butterfly really not remember instructions from one animal to the next?) And it's brightly illustrated. But otherwise this one just didn't do it for me.