Killing Monarchs (A Sam Rivers Mystery, 3)

This series was a great read!Fun to know familiar places..

Griffith's Sam River mysteries just keep getting better. Killing Monarchs features truly nasty bad guys, a new love interest for Sam, and lots of action for Gray the wolfhound. Rivers is a character with whom it is easy to empathize. A bonus is the knowledge of wildlife and conservation brought into the story. Can't wait for the next one!

I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway. I loved this book. Makes me want to read the rest of the series. This book definitely held my attention, didn't want to stop reading and couldn't wait until I had time to pick up again. Sam Rivers very intelligent officer. His drug sniffing wolfhound named Gray was thrilling to read about. I had a friend who had a wolfhound back in the 80's. They are beautiful creatures. Sam has a love interest also which it sounded like they fit perfectly for each other. This book contained really nasty characters from a nasty cartel. The way the cartel got info out of people was creepy but original. Along with the murder mystery, it also delved Into stories about conservation, flora and fauna, especially about Monarch butterflies. Which added to the story and did not take away from it. Better than I thought it was going to be from the description. The best mystery I have read in years. A+ to this book. You really need to read it.

Killing Monarchs is a delightful read with interesting, believable, well drawn characters, including magnificent Gray, half wolf and half malamute. If you’ve read Cary Griffith’s previous two Sam Rivers mysteries, you’ll know more about Gray’s and Sam’s backstories, but not necessary. This story rocks on its own! Compelling and beautifully written!

Killing Monarchs is not your ordinary detective novel. Griffith’s Sherlock is Sam Rivers, a US Fish and Wildlife agent; his Watson is Gray, a wolfdog (half arctic wolf, half malamute); and the criminals? Drug thugs, who call themselves Monarchs, migrate from Mexico to Minnesota, and kill with a scorpion sting. Rivers couldn’t detect the crimes committed by the Monarchs without Gray’s nose, and he couldn’t solve them without his knowledge and love of Nature. This novel is inspired and formed by Griffith’s love of flora and fauna. A great read!