Gator aide Book

Ron's review I enjoyed this enough to want to seek out the next book in the series. I would not put it on the same level as Nevada Barr or Dana Stabenow but if your looking for something along the same lines, then this is an author to search out.

It was a good story overall, it was just far fetched at times for me. The main character, Rachel Porter, leaves her job as an actress in New York because she was tired of the auditioning and instability, and her bad choices in men. She decides to change careers and ends up as a Fish & Wildlife officer in New Orleans. The amateur detective aspects were a bit too convenient. Porter was the only one who could put things together, the police seem unable to figure anything out. She gets help from a doctor who happens to be from New York, and a vet who was a hippy, flower child and still a rebel and they were just too conveniently placed.

It was interesting to learn about the high demand for alligator hides. How demand and quick money drove poachers to hunt them down.

If you like wildlife mysteries, give this one a shot.