Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. He’ll have to open his mind to a world beyond what’s in front of him if he hopes to solve the professor’s murder.įans of the original Lovecraft will have their rewards-Cthulu (spoiler alert) makes an appearance-but this series debut from Howard (Nightclubbing, 2015, etc.) shines brightest when keeping to his characters’ easy banter and creepy deaths.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. But Dan can’t stop thinking about it, especially because the last number the professor’s phone called was his own. Stumped, local police are ready to write it off as an idiopathic asphyxiation. A college professor seems to have drowned in his car without a drop of water in sight. No worries: Dan takes a shine to Emily and promises to share bookshop responsibilities with her, though he soon gets wrapped up in a local case of his own.
Emily, who hasn’t seen her uncle Alfred for seven years, certainly hasn’t anticipated an ouster from her place as owner-in-absentia. The bookstore is staffed by Hill's niece, Emily Lovecraft, whose other ancestors include the master of supernatural horror. Carter finds this strange, since he's never heard of Alfred Hill.
His eminently predictable caseload is dominated by assignments to follow cheating husbands-until a lawyer turns up and tells Carter that someone named Alfred Hill has left him a bequest that turns out to be a bookstore in Providence. Unnerved, Dan leaves the force and turns private eye. Lovecraft’s descendants to solve a crime.ĭetective Dan Carter’s biggest case is his last: his partner blows his own brains out after they’ve apprehended a serial killer. A former cop delves into the supernatural when he’s teamed with one of H.P.
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