Neema Mystery Books
An infant grabbed from her mother’s car. A dead end of evidence. A most unlikely source of help. Detective Matthew Finn is a fish out of water. After relocating to a small town to please his wife only to be abandoned by the cheating woman, he’s left juggling her three irritating pets along with a high-profile missing baby case. And already under pressure with a severe lack of clues, he’s wary when an anonymous tip leads to the incident’s sole witness… a gorilla. Working with a protective scientist to keep the animal out of the obsessed public’s eye, Finn frantically navigates the primate’s cryptic pictures and sign language. But with the tiny and vulnerable victim’s survival at stake, the overwhelmed investigator fears he’s rapidly running out of time. Can a cop and his curious simian assistant work together to catch a callous culprit? The Only Witness is the suspenseful first book in the Neema the Gorilla Mysteries. If you like intriguing characters, intelligent animal sidekicks, and sharp twists and turns, then you’ll love Pamela Beason’s captivating page-turner. Buy The Only Witness to see crime through sharply observant eyes today!
After she's forced by her funding committee to host a public display of her gorillas, Dr. Grace McKenna's nightmare comes true. In this sequel to The Only Witness , Gumu, Neema, and new baby gorilla Kanoni vanish into the night. The only clue left behind is a pool of blood. Have they been stolen by exotic animal dealers? Are they dead? Or are they simply roaming the nearby forests? If the news of gorillas' disappearance leaks out, Grace will lose her permit to keep the apes. Detective Matthew Finn's efforts to find out what happened are severely handicapped by the need to keep the investigation secret in the gossipy small town of Evansburg, Washington.
What does a human finger bone found by a signing gorilla have to do with Detective Matthew Finn’s case of two missing girls? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. Memorial Day starts off strangely when a signing gorilla hands Detective Matthew Finn a human finger bone, and then explains the bone’s origin with the mysterious clues of up, bird, and Snow, a favorite white cat. Finn’s day gets far worse when his small police department in Evansburg, Washington, loans him to the adjacent county to investigate the case of two missing teenage girls. Adding to the chaos, an arsonist is torching abandoned buildings in the area, and Finn soon discovers a troubling history of young women who have vanished in the rural area. Frantic parents and demanding reporters are breathing down his neck. Can Finn fit the puzzle pieces together in time to save the girls? The Neema Mysteries, #3