Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist. featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"--An investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation--previously seen in The Forgotten Room, The Third Gate, and Deep Storm. Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now. Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book when the remote community is rocked by the grisly discovery of a dead hiker on Desolation Mountain. The body has been severely mauled, but the unusual savagery of the bite and claw marks call into question the initial suspicions of a wild bear attack. When Logan is asked to help investigate, he discovers no shortage of suspects capable of such an attack--and no shortage of locals willing to point the finger and spread incredible rumors. One rumor, too impossible to believe, has even the forest ranger believing in werewolves. As Logan gets to know the remote deep-woods landscape, including a respected woman scientist still struggling with the violent loss of her father in these very woods, Logan realizes he's up against something he has never seen before. His most action-packed and white-knuckled novel to date, Full Wolf Moon is the perfect combination of exotic locales, provocative science, and raw action that make for a deeply entertaining Lincoln Child blockbuster"--

Thrills, chills and weird science. Just what I wanted. At different times, Jeremy describes enigmology as a hobby or a job. I think he should stick with hobby as he isn't getting paid. Just because it's a hobby doesn't mean you aren't skilled or serious.

wow just wow. by far one of the shortes books that I have read but non the less a wonderful book. packed full of the mystery and thriller aspects. while some categories as horror I don't find it so prominant in this book.
give it a try you will not regret it

I like Lincoln Child. He went to Carleton College in Northfield, Minnestoa. I lived in Northfield for several years. Never met Linc, but I still like him. He, with his writing partner, Douglas Preston, has turned out a prolific amount of pages over the years, namely the Pendergast series and the Gideon Crew novels. However, FULL WOLF MOON is the fifth in the Jeremy Logan series, which is Child's alone.

I enjoyed the rest of the novels in the series. The premise is always the same: Logan is a widowed professor and an “enigmalogist”–a guy who studies enigmas. Usually, Logan finds something bordering on the supernatural, and then he skulks around until he uncovers the truth of the matter (and truth is always stranger than fiction), and then there's a flurry of action at the end as the story comes to its climax. It's always page-turning good fun.

FULL WOLF MOON is no exception to this beat. Logan is at an artists' retreat in the Adirondacks to finish a monograph, but the deep forest has been plagued in recent months by strange, brutal killings, possibly done by a rogue bear? Maybe Bigfoot? As one would expect from the title, maybe it's a werewolf.

Although the story starts slowly, once it picks up, it clips along with a solid pace, as typical for Preston/Child novels. Child manages to paint a plausible scientific basis for hairy dog-men running through the forest and feeding on the flesh of the untainted (albeit, a bit of a stretch). Once you see how he sets up the sketchy science, if you let yourself buy into the theory, the rest of the book is a roller coaster that eventually comes to a satisfying conclusion.

FULL WOLF MOON is not breaking new ground in the Jeremy Logan series, and it suffers from a lack of character development, but it's a fun read, and I will be looking forward to the next one.