- In Los Angeles, to research an animal park, Jessica finds the employees trying to protect themselves in the middle of a skimmed-funds scandal. Then an amoral publicist turns up dead.
- Jessica does zoo research in LA's Animal Park. Director Norman Gilford is the center of a web of corruption, embezzlement, secrets and bribery. City councilor Joe Gandolph's plan to close the park is helped by a warped animal rights movement, Earth Speak. When Earth Speak's spokesman Mark Atwater dies from mambo snake venom, Jesscia works out it wasn't just a bite. She helps her friend LAPD Lieutenant Gabriel Caceras clear Ted Fraley and uncovers the sordid truth.—KGF Vissers
- Jessica Fletcher pays a return visit to the Los Angles Animal Park as she does research for her next novel. She's decided her new murder mystery will take place in a zoo and is looking at just how someone could be killed with the large variety of animals around them. All is not well at the park, however. They are under criticism from an animal rights group, Earth Speak, which is trying to shut them down as is a local city councilor, Joe Gandolph, who thinks that the taxpayer supported facility has become too big a drain on municipal resources. The park has its supporters. however, including Joyce Hacker, a local TV personality. The facility's director, Norman Gilford, is clearly corrupt and a journalist may be on to him. When Mark Atwater, who works for Earth Speak, is killed after being bitten by a black mamba snake, park employee Ted Fraley is arrested. Atwater was blackmailing Fraley to the tune of $1200 a month and his fingerprints were found in Atwater's apartment. A fire hydrant gives Jessica an idea as to what is going on and who might be behind it all.—garykmcd
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