His fiancée, Alena, trains rescue dogs for work sniffing out drugs or finding cadavers. One thing these bugs do is help him pinpoint the time of death. Nick Polchak is a forensic entomologist: he studies bugs, specifically the ones attracted to corpses. “The Bug Man is getting married on Saturday … if his fiancée can find him.” Not all of the books in the series are set in North Carolina.Ĭheck this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.Nick of Time, by Tim Downs (Thomas Nelson, 2011)
This is the fifth novel in the Bug Man series. Rest easy, the terrorism threat is resolved romantic matters will be settled later. Bioterrorism, entomology, and matters of the heart vie for center stage in this book. She’s clear on her feelings for Nick and she knows that Kathryn and her daughter are rivals for Nick’s heart. Alena Savard, the dog trainer from series novel Less than Dead, has also come to the farm to aid in the investigation. His feelings for Kathryn re-emerge as they eat meals together and he sees how she mothers her autistic daughter. Nick can be forgiven for being a little slow on the uptake. What takes Nick time to discover is that the grad student’s interest in Nick’s work may be his way to keep track of the investigation. The authorities think that the killing is drug-related but early on readers learn that the victim was connected to a new NCSU graduate student with ties to a sinister, wealthy Russian. Kathryn Guilford made her first series appearance in Shoofly Pie, but in the intervening years a lot has happened, including her marriage to a bi-polar man who is the murder victim. It’s the dead man’s wife who asked for Nick.
Professor Polchack is known as “the Bug Man” and he assumes that Sampson County authorities know his reputation and requested his services. A call from the sheriff’s department in Sampson County gives North Carolina State University professor Nick Polchak a chance to escape the beginning-of-the-school- year receptions that he abhors.
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