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Did Not Survive (Zoo Mysteries, 2) Paperback – June 30, 2012

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Iris Oakley, pregnant and still recovering from her husband's murder, wants only to carry on as a keeper at Finley Memorial Zoo in Vancouver, Washington. But she is confronted by a terrifying situation: alone and with no elephant expertise, she must rescue her boss, Kevin Wallace, from being mauled by a zoo elephant. Though she gets him to safety, he dies of his injuries. No one understands why reliable old Damrey attacked the foreman, and Iris inadvertently misdirects the investigation. As zoo staff descend into anxiety and animosity, the welfare of the animals is threatened, as well as the lives of keepers. Rattled coworkers nominate Iris to find out what's going on. She finds a surprising number of motives to kill the foreman, but Damrey, the elephant, doesn't have one.

Despite the distraction of trying to construct her new life as a single mother, Iris discovers that the elephant keepers are locked in a bitter feud, the new veterinarian is keeping secrets, and an old flame still hates Wallace. New-born clouded leopard cubs cheer up the troubled staff, but even that has its dark side. Adding to the chaos, animal rights activists are picketing the zoo. They want the elephants sent to a sanctuary, but is that a better option for them than the improved exhibit that is on the drawing board? Why isn't that exhibit under construction as planned? A new foreman shows up with alarming ideas, the police keep dropping by, and animals are disappearing into thin air...

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Poisoned Pen Press
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June 30, 2012
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5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches
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1590587472
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978-1590587478
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"Zookeeper Iris Oakley, who lost her husband in her first outing (2008's Night Kill), returns to Finley Memorial Zoo near Vancouver, Wash., for a second harrowing adventure that meshes the complexities of animal care and human failings. Early one morning, Iris discovers her boss, Kevin Wallace, face down in the elephant enclosure, apparently being mauled. What first appears to be a dreadful accident is revealed by autopsy to be a murder and merely the first incident to bedevil the little zoo. Although she's six months pregnant, several colleagues suggest that Iris should look into other disturbing events, including the theft of a zoo van and the body of a tiger. Fascinating details of zoo life--the impending birth of clouded leopards, collecting urine samples from elephants--lend color. Man again proves to be the most dangerous animal, and Iris needs all her cunning to discover the rogue behind the violence in a follow-up that should win Littlewood more fans." --Publishers Weekly

“Mystery mavens may pick out the killer early on, but a wealth of behind-the-scenes detail smoothly integrated into the puzzle makes this a promising debut.” --Kirkus Reviews of Night Kill

“A debut from former zookeeper Ann Littlewood, it convincingly and affectionately evokes its animal-friendly setting. Call it a zoo cozy.” --The Seattle Times of Night Kill

“Mystery mavens may pick out the killer early on, but a wealth of behind-the-scenes detail smoothly integrated into the puzzle makes this a promising debut.” --Kirkus Reviews of N

About the Author

Ann Littlewood is the author of Night Kill, the first in the Iris Oakley Zoo-Dunnit series. She worked for the Oregon Zoo for 12 years as a zookeeper before a career in business writing with Kaiser Permanente. Ann lives in Portland, Oregon, across the river from Vancouver, Washington, the home of the fictional Finley Memorial Zoo. She is a life-long environmentalist and a volunteer with the Audubon Society of Portland.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Poisoned Pen Press (June 30, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590587472
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590587478
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches

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Ann Littlewood has abandoned a number of careers, among them zoo keeper at the Oregon Zoo and publication manager in a health care information technology department. Currently she writes fiction (sometimes "award-winning") and has published a mystery series--the Iris Oakley "zoo-dunnits" from Poisoned Pen Press.

Her latest venture is into literary fiction, a novella told in seven short stories set in a wildlife rehabilitation center. Keep an eye out for "The Owl on the Road to Medford: Stories of Blacktails, Birds, and a Broken Heart", published for Kindle.

Ann is a confirmed tree-hugger, duck-squeezer, and fern-licker, often found at climate change rallies and native plant events. Her bubble is located in Portland, Oregon, where she resides with a husband and a small but hairy dog.

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bothellbuyer

elephants, clouded leopards and penguins - love it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2012

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I read this book immediately after finishing Night Kill: A Zoo Mystery (Zoo Mysteries) , the first Littlewood zoo mystery. I really recommend reading them in published order as the character development makes more sense that way. Although I'm absolutely NOT a mystery fan, if you put in enough zoo/animal stuff, I'll bite and this series is really working for me. Perhaps I'm a closet zoo-keeper myself. The writing style is sharp, the characters are well-developed and interesting and the biology doesn't make me question whether the author knows her stuff. I especially enjoyed the elephant theme in this book and the clouded leopard breeding effort story line. I've followed the National Zoo clouded leopard efforts for years as well as those of Woodland Park Zoo. It was also interesting to gain insight into behind-the-scenes penguin husbandry. Good stuff! Don't forget to download the third zoo mystery in the series: Endangered: A Zoo Mystery . I'm 42% through it as I type.

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Carol M

Good murder mystery; great zoo setting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2012

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I started on this book immediately after finishing Night Kill, the first in the series. I liked Did Not Survive even more than Night Kill. It has the same great setting of being 'backstage' at a small Northwest zoo, but the mystery storyline is stronger.

As in the first book, the mystery is the death of a zookeeper. An elephant is the initial primary suspect this time, but it is fairly quickly determined to be a human murderer. There are a number of situations swirling around that may or may not be related to the murder: conflict between crew members (past and present), new crew members with past secrets, things disappearing from around the zoo, and anti-zoo activists picketing the zoo. I did not pick out the culprit on my own, but when the who-dun-it was revealed, I realized I hadn't paid attention to clues that were there all along.

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Liakno

Well written, slightly improbable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2014

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An entertaining and engrossing mystery in an engaging setting. It's fascinating to read about the behind-the-scenes life at a zoo. The only reason I can't give it 5 stars is that I find it hard to believe that a heavily pregnant woman (and one who wants to have her baby) would put herself in so much danger. But the characters are well-drawn and you find yourself interested in them all. I think there's a third one in this series, and I will definitely read more in this series as they appear.

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Elaine Kirchner

Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2012

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This is the second of Ann Littlewood books that I have read. As a zookeeper I found this to be a good representation of the way things are in a zoo setting. There were enought twists and turns to make it a surprise ending. Looking forward to reading the next book by Ann.

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cris

I volunteer at a Zoo, so I can relate ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2015

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I volunteer at a Zoo, so I can relate to a lot of what she feels and describes. For a story that takes place in a Zoo, she does not dwell on the animals. It is a mystery that happens to take place at a Zoo.

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Gayle

Another Winner for Ann Littlewood!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 24, 2013

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Having enjoyed the first of this series (Night Kill), I wanted to read more about Iris and the Finley Zoo. The details of zoo life are interesting, the characters likeable and the mystery well-written. I will be reading more of this series! Cassandra Campbell does an excellent job of narrating these stories!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2015

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Loved the book. Highly recommended.

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L. Dean Murphy

"Reading" time at the zoo

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2010

Ann Littlewood is a master mystery writer at par with Nevada Barr, whose bestselling Anna Pigeon series can have a handful of people in an unlikely setting and still be a complex mystery. She furthers her skills by making this second of the Zoo Mystery Series (following NIGHT KILL) a social statement about endangered species, the intricate beauty of nature, and the complicated workings of a zoo, without being esoteric. Littlewood astutely educates readers with a clever feast of phrases that is truly "reading" time at the zoo. The author is a former zookeeper. As a novelist, she is definitely a keeper.

"Finley Memorial Zoo is a small zoo near Vancouver, Washington." Protagonist Iris Oakley sees Kevin Wallace being mauled by Damrey the elephant---the only witness to what police subsequently investigate as a possible homicide. Iris is asked to conduct an informal investigation but keeps evidence info to herself, sort of a detective calculator tallying anomalies, instead of numbers. When zoo staffers ask if she thinks police can learn if Wallace was murdered instead of an accidental death, she says, "Sure they will. They do it in an hour on TV." Surprisingly, many have cause to kill likeable Wallace.

Oakley's "six-months pregnant belly" and her "husband's death six months ago" complicate an amateur investigation at Finley Zoo, as she rounds up the "zoosual" suspects. Pregnancy hormones know only two words: Feed me! "A chicken burger and carton of milk later, I came up for air." Co-worker Linda opines of the snarf: "Hyenas after they pull down a zebra." Or feeding time at the... No, don't go there!

When Oakley's co-workers load Rajah the tiger's body into a van, to take to the zoo's vet for necropsy, Raj pulls a Lazarus and alarmingly comes to life. The zoo crew "bailed out like your hair was on fire," and "explored the concept of undead tigers in a zombie zoo." Feeling safe in the commissary, with Oakley pregnantly craving comfort food "like piranhas and a wounded tapir," they discuss strange happenings and a newly appointed Prussian zoo-meister. When they return, the van is gone, Rajah too. With the bizarre goings-on at Finley, is it possible that a tiger hotwired the van? However, Damrey and the other elephant, Nakri, command the center of attention, sort of like an 8,000-pound gorilla in the room. The titular lack of survival indeed is a sad commentary about society, but many mysteries are solved by following the money trail.

Matters are complicated for the unlikely detective, when outspoken anti-zoo activist Bill "Thor" Thorson crashes zoo employees' celebration at their favorite watering hole, the Vulture's Roost. Office politics play out in surprising turns of events. Someone is setting up zoo employees to be fired, and each who is has cause to kill Wallace---six months after Oakley's husband was murdered at the same zoo.

This bestseller-quality novel is more than murder, mayhem and mystery. There's another M---message. Oakley recalls the painful memory of her husband's death and the life that grows inside her: "Damrey still tugged at her invisible chain, the chain that had scarred her leg. My chain had begun to fall away. I could imagine that someday the scar might fade."

With this Oakley installment readers learn more about zoos (and the complex human element that manages them) than those with annual zoo passes and daily visits. So, put on your pith helmet for this richly written safari through a profoundly excellent mystery that Littlewood calls a zoo-dunit.

---Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy

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