Mesozoic Murder
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"Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore."—Publishers Weekly
Ansel Phoenix draws dinosaurs for magazines, books, and museum displays. But one morning, digging with students out in the field, she unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos. Shocked and grieved over the murder, and not trusting the Big Toe police who've an axe to grind with her father, Ansel decides to investigate what Capos had been doing during the last few months of his life. She soon suspects he was working on a secret, possibly illegal project worth killing for. Her list of possible suspects grows by the hour as someone starts stalking her across the Montana landscape—a master predator who will stop at nothing. Why is Nick's fossil collection missing and why had he developed a recent interest in Baltic amber?
Ansel must also deal with the challenges of her own half-Anglo, half-Blackfoot heritage; with her ranching family and the changes threatening their rural community; and with more than one Mesozoic mystery....
Christine Gentry
Christine Gentry lives in North Carolina and has a degree in psychology. She has taught freelance writing courses and police report writing for law enforcement personnel. Her published work includes magazine articles and fiction or nonfiction books. Currently, she has published nine books, Carnosaur Crimes being the second in the Ansel Phoenix mystery series. She is a past KINSA Photography contest winner, and most of her nonfiction books feature her color studio photography. She is currently working on several writing projects, one of which is a third Phoenix novel. Her author web site is www.gentrybooks.com.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Just because I'm such a positive person (/end sarcasm) I'm going to start off with something that Ms. Gentry got wrong. 01880 is the zip code for Wakefield, period. Not for Greenwood (which is one of quite a few neighborhoods in Wakefield and yes it does have a train stop in it that's named after the neighborhood, but, I haven't seen a map during most of my life that has recently shown this as a 'town' anymore).Okay. I had to get that out of my system. Onto the good stuff. The book definitely had me on the edge of my seat, sometimes 'cause it was suspenseful and I'll admit it, sometimes because I had no idea what was going on.The paleo stuff was interesting and I really liked the characters of Chase and Pearl Phoenix, I actually liked most of the secondary characters for the most part. They were intricately written and all just a bit quirky.On the other hand Ansel annoyed me a little. I understand that not everyone likes those who are descendants (or half descendants) of the Native peoples who were here in the US before the rest of us, but Ansel's character just wore on me because she never gave any of the other characters the benefit of the doubt. Seemed to believe that everyone was was against her because she was Amerind (which as an aside, my brain just can't seem to figure out how to pronounce correctly). Within the framework of the story it just got a bit repetitive. Of course, yes, I have no doubt that there are tons of haters out there in real life, but this was fiction, and fiction shouldn't be exactly like real life.