Catfish Guru

by Mark Terry

PRESENTING TWO DR. THEO MACGREGGOR MYSTERIES!NAME YOUR POISONDr. Theo MacGreggor is the director of the Genetic Toxicology Lab at Green Earth Industries, Inc. When someone plants poison in his laboratory's coffee pot, Mac sets out to solve the murder. An expert on poisons, Mac is an ideal candidate to assist the police and the M.E.'s Office in their pursuit of the killer. As Mac walks the tightrope between corporate politics and a murder investigation, he realizes that one slip could cost him his job...or his life. CATFISH GURUIt should have been a quiet week lecturing at a biotech symposium in the northern Michigan resort town of Traverse City. But when Mac and his son meet Steve Ferrante during a walk on the beach, it triggers anything but a quiet week. Only an hour after hinting he might be interested in hiring Mac to analyze the toxicological data he has accumulated during his catfish research, Mac finds Ferrante dead, face down in Grand Traverse Bay. In a case twisted by buried desires, secret lives and blackmail, Mac may be the only one with the key to unlock its mystery.

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2001

About the author

Mark Terry is the author of the Derek Stillwater thrillers, THE DEVIL'S PITCHFORK, THE SERPENT'S KISS, and THE FALLEN, as well as several standalone thrillers, including DIRTY DEEDS, CATFISH GURU, and DANCING IN THE DARK. Born in Flint, Michigan in 1964, he graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in microbiology and public health, which has informed his Derek Stillwater thrillers and other fiction. After spending 18 years working in clinical genetics, he turned to writing full time. When not writing or reading, Mark Terry is a gym rat, lifting weights, biking, running, kayaking, studying Sanchin-Ryu karate, and playing the guitar. Otherwise he spends his time with his wife and two sons in Michigan.