Accompanied by Charlie and Jackaby’s mountain-man friend, Hank Hudson, the detectives descend on the dig site, where they encounter such secondary but well-sketched characters as a fame-seeking farmer, arguing academics, and a wisecracking female reporter. A budding sleuth herself, Abigail still craves her paleontologist father’s approval, and when a body is found near the excavation area and the police send for Jackaby, she gets to combine her passions…and work alongside her crush, exiled police officer/shape-shifter Charlie Cane. Jackaby plunges into one investigation and then another when the police discover Beaumont dead, but Abigail turns her attention to a third mystery-fossils unearthed in Gad’s Valley. Beaumont’s chameleomorphs, carnivorous shape-shifters masquerading as scaly kittens, presumed extinct but unexpectedly alive in 19th-century New England. Jackaby, Abigail Rook eagerly assists with his newest case: Mrs. Having (narrowly) survived her first investigation with the energetic and eccentric detective R.F. Normal teen and abnormal detective unearth more paranormal mysteries in this fast-paced sequel to Jackaby (2014).
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