A review by ccoelophysis
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America by David Baron

5.0

This book first caught my eye at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center in Jeffco, CO. I was drawn by the mountain lion on the cover (mountain lion merchandise of any sort is hard to come by, but I managed to find a magnet there as well which now resides on our refrigerator door). I did not pick up a copy then but have since seen it on display at my local library and found a near-new used hardback copy at Goodwill which I purchased. So little seems to be known about mountain lions in the wild that I consider this book a rare treasure. As a two-year Colorado resident it is a bit eerie to be familiar with the locations in the book. The descriptions of mountain lion attack aftermath are quite gruesome but I wish more than ever to see a mountain lion outside of the zoo and this book gives me hope I may one day spot one somewhere along the Front Range.