The Lion's Share - Hardcover

Tate, Kelly; Hanna, Jack

3.75

12 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670840114 ISBN 13: 9780670840113

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1992

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In the first of a new mystery series, veterinarian Carlson MacIntire has forty-eight hours to find the human killer before the police punish two precious endangered wolves for a murder they had been coaxed to commit. 20,000 first printing.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Trouble at the Rockland (Mass.) Zoo: a mamba bites receptionist Joanne Nordstrom (who dies because someone's sabotaged the fridge that keeps the antitoxin cold); endangered-list red wolves savage manager Donald Stewart, who has taken too close an interest in the zoo's finances--now being handled by Alex Cristos (whose ``mouth formed a cool, saccharine smile that didn't impact the rest of his face'') and by Edward Hargreve, son of late director H.L. Hargreve--and there's growing evidence that H.L., apparently killed by Kenyan poachers, was professionally hit, maybe by the same guy who's leaving scheming Edward notes claiming that ``the lion's share is mine.'' Three more Homo sapiens will get put down before new vet Carlson MacIntyre can win a reprieve for those wolves by fingering the real killer--but since, as in most zoo mysteries, the animals are more varied and interesting than the humans on display, there's no cause for alarm. First-novelist Tate, teaming up with zookeeper Hanna (Monkeys on the Interstate, 1989), has succeeded in producing a genre piece that, like its intrepid protagonist, is ``tired down to [its] very bone marrow.'' -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

When first met, veterinarian Mac MacIntire is pinned beneath a 300-pound lioness who has her mouth clamped on his neck. Mac has just signed on with the Rockland Zoo in Massachusetts, primarily to administer a survival plan for the endangered red wolf, 8% of whose entire population is housed at Rockland. But when zookeeper Donald Stewart is killed, apparently by the wolves, the zoo's new director and his sinister financial officer seem surprisingly eager to put down the creatures. Stewart's death follows that of a receptionist who, bitten by a rare black mamba, is injected with anti-venom serum from the zoo's supply that proves to have been deliberately rendered ineffective. Mac begins to suspect that a human killer may be lurking, but before he can identify murderer and motives, he must avoid being trampled by a playful elephant, poisoned by funnel-web spiders and devoured by a tiger. In this first of a projected series, the likable vet reveals a tragedy from his past and begins a promising relationship with secretary Claire Burke.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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