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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a delightful mystery, with an ending that I didn't see coming and characters that were fully fleshed out, if a bit scaly. The one critique of this book is that the reasons dinosaurs live a secret life amongst the humans is not really given, a few hints here and there, that leaves a reader unsatisfied, or maybe a future book will be written about just this topic. A great read, not to deep, and fast. (  ) TheDivineOomba | Sep 26, 2009 |  Dino meatsuit down and out PI disguise. No, really. In a humorous private investigator novel the main character is actually a dinosaur. Apparently they didn't die out and they live hidden among us, basically human sized. They stuff themselves into disguises, use scent etc. so no-one works it out. Once you can get past that basically Douglas Adams level of farce, you have a pretty fun book. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/03... (  ) bluetyson | Mar 3, 2008 | erichschlaikjer | May 20, 2007 | Vincent Rubio is not only a hardboiled detective, but also a dinosaur with a terrible basil habit. He’s been down on his luck since his partner died, but is once again on the tail of a killer. RAPS | May 7, 2007 | First of the series. Very silly. ( ) picardyrose | Mar 2, 2007 | 
 Witty, fast-paced detective work makes for a good mystery, but the story's sly, seamlessly conceived dinosaur underworld contains all the elements of a cult classic.
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In Eric Garcia's wild but winning first mystery, dinosaurs never did get wiped out--they evolved secretly and now make up about 5 percent of the world's population. There are dinosaur doctors, lawyers, even detectives like Rubio--although he's hit a low point in his own career because of the suspicious death of his beloved partner. Now the distraught Vincent sucks up so much basil that he can't do his job. But when a human who knows the dinosaurs' secret is killed during an arson fire at a popular dino disco called the Evolution Club, Rubio's luck begins to change. He starts to snoop, following the trail of a lovely human female to the office of Dr. Emil Vallardo, where bizarre experiments are being done on interspecies breeding between humans and dinosaurs. It's all great comic book fun, full of nice little inside jokes, served up deadpan and with full respect for the private eye genre it enlivens. --Dick Adler
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