"I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality." In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, a vicious species of shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens, and a day later, their owner is found murdered with a single mysterious puncture wound. Then in nearby Gad's Valley, now home to the exiled New Fiddleham police detective Charlie Cane, dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind. Charlie calls on Abigail for help, and soon Abigail and Jackaby are on the hunt for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
Abigail Rook and Jackaby are back! And mysterious bones are popping up and then disappearing, people are dying with mysterious puncture wounds...basically, there are mysteries everywhere, and Rook and Jackaby are on the case.
I actually enjoyed this book better than the first one. It felt like the characters were getting more developed in book one, and now there was more time to let them shine. I found myself sitting in Starbucks reading, and actually laughing out loud a few times at the droll commentary. I am already planning on getting book 3 immediately :)
