A review by emjay24
The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne

2.0

This was the September Kindle First Reads book. A super smart, super socially awkward computer biologist professor gets pulled into a murder investigation of one of his former students, leading him to devise a computer system that discovers dozens or hundreds of unsolved and unknown murders, previously thought to be animal attacks or runaways. Since he is so smart and so awkward and the police departments all happen to be kind of hick people who don’t understand even basic science, no one believes him and he goes about things in the worst way possible. This is the first in a series and would do better as a tv series than a book. The idea of it is good, but somehow it ended up being overdone and hard to get through. I would watch this show, but I doubt I’ll read more of the books.