The Children's Zoo Author:Lillian O'Donnell Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney's investigation into a series of brutal push-in murders in an exclusive apartment complex appears to be linked to a break-in at the zoo and also to a schoolboy, Bud Stucke, who lives in the complex. But the apartment building is filled with affluent, influential tenants who make it difficult for Norah to proce... more »ed: her superiors order her to stop her apartment-by-apartment search for someone regularly in the building on Friday afternoons, the time the famous invalid pianist, Jonathan Burrell, was tortured and killed.
She does manage one interview with Bud, but he shields the friends he plays with on Fridays. Then Bud himself is attacked. His assailants break his jaw so he can't talk... but Norah places a pen in his hand and he begins to write...« less