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Van Pelt, Shelby

Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt. - First edition. - 360 pages ; 24 cm.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

ISBN: 9780063204157 0063204150 9780063204164 0063204169

LCCN: 2021043416

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Octopuses--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction
Human-animal relationships--Fiction
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Missing persons--Investigation--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction
Animal fiction
Novels

LC Class. No.: PS3622.A58572 / R46 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6