A Mockingbird's Song

A murder in a chimp's cage at the Colter Primate Center opens "A Mockingbird's Song," a mystery novel set in North Carolina in the early 1990's. Sgt. Steve Thibault leads the investigation of researchers, professors, and animal rights protestors all of whom had a compelling interest in keeping one particular student permanently quiet. Thibault is alternately helped and hindered through the twists and turns of conflicting stories and motivations by the Center's Public Information Officer, Gemma Farnese who turns out to be a suspect herself.