Synopsis via Powell's Books:
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
This is the first book I'd read of Child and Preston's, and I must say I liked it a lot! Mostly I'm a big reader of plot-driven books, but every once in awhile I just want something where I don't have to think so much and can just get swept up in a suspenseful, edge-of-my-seat kind of book. Needless to say it was character-driven, but it was something I needed after finishing the huge Discovery of Witches.
Any book set in a museum will get my attention, so throw in some really likeable characters and a creepy beast running around killing people is just good fun! The folklore behind the beast and how it came to nocturnally wander the halls of a museum was very intriguing, and in my mind not too far-fetched. Plus it had a nice surprising hook at the end which I was not expecting. All in all, I'd recommend this one if you just need a weekend read, and I'll for sure be looking at other books in the series.