The puffin of death : Gunn zoo series series, book 4

California Zookeeper Theodora Bentley Travels To Iceland To Pick Up An Orphaned Polar Bear Cub Destined For The Gunn Zoo's Newly Installed Northern Climes Exhibit. The Trip Is Intended To Be A Combination Of Work And Play. But On Day Two, While Horseback Riding Near A Picturesque Seaside Village, Teddy Discovers A Man Lying Atop A Puffin Burrow, Shot Through The Head. The Victim Is Identified As American Birdwatcher Simon Parr, Winner Of The Largest Powerball Payout In History. Is Teddy A Witness - Or A Suspect? Others Include Not Only Parr's Wife, A Famed Suspense Novelist, But Fellow Members Of The Birding Club Parr Had Generously Treated To Their Lavish Icelandic Expedition. Hardly Your Average Birders, Several Of Them Have Had Serious Brushes With The Law Back In The States. Guessing That An American Would Best Understand Other Americans, Police Detective Thorvaald Haraldsson Grudgingly Concedes Her Innocence And Allows Teddy To Tag Along With The Group To Volcanoes, Glaciers, And Deep Continental Rifts In Quest Of Rare Bird Species. But Once Another Member Of The Club Is Murdered And A Rockfall Barely Misses Teddy's Head, Haraldsson Forbids Her To Continue. She Ignores Him And, In A Stunning, Solitary Face-off With The Killer In Iceland's Wild Interior, Concludes An Investigation At Once Exotic, Thrilling, And Rich In Animal Lore. He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back? In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners - to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest rivals. Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king's mission to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, trickery or force. Needing a squad of soldiers as well as footballers, Sir Tristram must also find a place on tour and in his heart for the teenage child he has not addressed by name since infancy... Zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear for a new exhibit. While in Iceland, she must put her investigative skills to use when two American birdwatchers are killed in a picturesque seaside village.