The Album of Dr. Moreau - Daryl Gregory Audiobook

Written by Daryl Gregory
Read by Almarie Guerra, Luis Moreno
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: June 8, 2021
Duration: 04:27:31

Daryl Gregory’s The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by H. G. Wells with the panache of a classic murder mystery and the spectacle of a beloved boy band.

It’s 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world’s hottest boy band, and definitely the world’s only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the “boyz” become the prime suspects.Was it Bobby the ocelot (”the cute one”), Matt the megabat (”the funny one”), Tim the Pangolin (”the shy one”), Devin the bonobo (”the romantic one”), or Tusk the elephant (”the smart one”)?

Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ’ journey first began?a place they used to call home.

Booklist…May 1, 2021
Hugo and Campbell award-nominated Gregory continues to explore transhuman existence in this SF police procedural set in Las Vegas. The manager of the WyldBoyZ singing quintet has been found brutally murdered in his penthouse suite. Lead singer Bobby O(celot) was found in bed with the manager’s blood on his clawed hand. The band is a group of hybrids–part human and part elephant, ocelot, pangolin, bonobo, or bat–who have taken the world of boy bands by storm. Their secrets come out during the course of investigation by Luce Delgado, whose daughter is a huge fan. Gregory lays out this story in tracks, as on an album, which gives the detective as well as each singer a voice, allowing a convoluted back story to be succinctly revealed. Delgado’s partner is obliged to offer only the best puns any good sidekick would when confronted by the Fountain of Furry Humor. The humanity of these outcasts–whose only chance of not being captives of the Wildlife services (aka the CIA) was to become rich and famous–is never in question. Gregory deliberately and imaginatively breaks every one of T. S. Eliot’s “Rules of Detective Fiction,” with which he has prefaced this luminous novella.