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The Naturalist
by Andrew Mayne
The Naturalist is a compelling murder mystery where Computational Biologist Theo Cray is sucked into a murder investigation. One of his former students is murdered and he is a suspect until her murder is written off as a bear attack. Using his ability to spot patterns he realizes that several animal attacks and disappearances are the work of a serial killer. As someone who can’t let go when he spots a pattern, this leads him on a chase to a burnt out meth town, where he sees another victim. Soon he is finding bodies all over Wyoming and Montana using a program meant to find natural predators who eat natural prey. Dismissed by multiple law enforcement agencies he finds a decades long murder spree and a chilling, but brilliant killer who is not content to sit back and be caught.
He has to go back to the past, when the killer wasn’t quite so experienced to find evidence that points to someone. This raises a lot of flags all over making it easier for the killer to know someone is on his tale and just who that is. Through it all he abuses his University credential to take evidence and to get people to talk to him. There is also a lot of chilling Paleontology that shows this killer wouldn’t have been that abnormal throughout most of history.
Through it all he has to examine his own motives as he tries to leave things be, but realizes he can’t. He also realizes he has to be tougher, the man who is walked over by his superiors at work, corrupt police, and a couple of meth addicts cannot be the person who contends with this monster that makes his murders look like animal attacks. With help from people he meets along the way he might just stand a chance.
He has to go back to the past, when the killer wasn’t quite so experienced to find evidence that points to someone. This raises a lot of flags all over making it easier for the killer to know someone is on his tale and just who that is. Through it all he abuses his University credential to take evidence and to get people to talk to him. There is also a lot of chilling Paleontology that shows this killer wouldn’t have been that abnormal throughout most of history.
Through it all he has to examine his own motives as he tries to leave things be, but realizes he can’t. He also realizes he has to be tougher, the man who is walked over by his superiors at work, corrupt police, and a couple of meth addicts cannot be the person who contends with this monster that makes his murders look like animal attacks. With help from people he meets along the way he might just stand a chance.