Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo - Craige, Betty Jean
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In Betty Jean Craige's sixth Witherston Murder Mystery, Jorge and Jaime Arroyo own a zoo dedicated to rehabilitating wild animals and restoring endangered species. A bizarre set of events puts Zoo Arroyo in the news. A stranger dies in the wolves' enclosure. A wolf whelps a wolf-wolverine chimera. A bear delivers a bear-wolf chimera. Are these events related to a beautiful scientist's ambition to win a prize for biological innovation? Is the genetic engineer enamored of her responsible for the appropriation of the animals' wombs? In Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo, Jorge and Jaime wonder: Is…mehr

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In Betty Jean Craige's sixth Witherston Murder Mystery, Jorge and Jaime Arroyo own a zoo dedicated to rehabilitating wild animals and restoring endangered species. A bizarre set of events puts Zoo Arroyo in the news. A stranger dies in the wolves' enclosure. A wolf whelps a wolf-wolverine chimera. A bear delivers a bear-wolf chimera. Are these events related to a beautiful scientist's ambition to win a prize for biological innovation? Is the genetic engineer enamored of her responsible for the appropriation of the animals' wombs? In Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo, Jorge and Jaime wonder: Is nature in the twenty-first century man-made? Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo is the sixth book in her Witherston Murder Mystery series, which includes Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, and Death in Potter's Woods.
Autorenporträt
Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. She has been a scholar, a teacher, a translator of Spanish poetry, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.Over five decades Betty Jean published numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot. She wrote a Sunday column in the Athens Banner-Herald titled "Cosmo Talks" and later collected those essays in Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo. After retirement she turned her attention to fiction and published six Witherston Murder Mysteries-Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, Death in Potter's Woods, and Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo-and a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo. Parrot Sanctuary is her seventh Witherston Murder Mystery.Betty Jean lives in Athens, Georgia, with her beloved Cosmo. See: http://www.bettyjeancraige.org.