Beast of the North Woods
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature in the latest puzzling entry in this USA Today bestselling series.
An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. There's just one problem with that: it's well known that the creature is not real and was created by a local hoaxer. So how could an imaginary creature be chomping on local sportsmen?
The suggestion that a hodag killed someone isn’t well received by the townsfolk because of its beloved ties to the town and the money it generates from tourist dollars. Due to this, people begin to suspect the witness is the real killer, especially when it’s discovered he has a tangled past with the victim.
The witness to the attack happens to be the nephew of Morgan Carter’s bookstore employee, Rita Bosworth, who convinces the professional cryptozoologist to travel to Wisconsin to prove that a hodag not only exists but killed the victim.
Clues may be hard to come by, but one thing's for sure: something killed that man, and that something now has its eyes focused on Morgan.
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Wisconsin cryptozoologist Morgan Carter returns in Ryan's delightful third Monster Hunter mystery (after Death in the Dark Woods). Rita Bosworth, an employee at Morgan's Door County gift shop, comes to her one morning with a desperate request: Rita's nephew, Andrew, is the prime suspect in the murder of a young man named Brandon Kluver, who was killed in Wisconsin's north woods. The two men had a history of antagonism, and Andrew's account—that Brandon was butchered by the Hodag, a legendary beast with a froglike face, tusks, and clawed feet—is ridiculed by the police. Rita begs a skeptical Morgan to look into it, and she agrees, recalling a recent, unrelated sighting of a creature that resembled the Hodag in the same region. As Morgan prepares to go trudging through the north woods in pursuit of the amphibious menace, she receives anonymous threats attempting to dissuade her from pressing any further, which only increase her sense of urgency. Ryan once again delivers the goods, serving up a cheeky, atmospheric investigation that goes down as smoothly as an episode of Scooby-Doo but with far more narrative intricacy. This series continues to impress.
