250 page mass market paperback titled ZERO AT THE BONE by Mary Willis Walker/ Worldwide Library, ISBN #0-373-26122-5 , First Printing (Unstated), June 1993/ It's feeding time at the zoo. Who's for dinner? Katherine Driscoll hasn't heard from her father since she was a baby - over thirty years ago. She's deeply suspicious when he writes her a letter. How does he know she is in desperate need of help? Although she's the best dog trainer in Texas, she must find $90,000 immediately or lose everything, including her beloved golden retriever, Ra. But when she tries to take her father up on his offer, she finds that he is already dead, mauled by a tiger at the zoo where he was a keeper. Katherine resolves to investigate, drawn to uncover long-buried family secrets which appear to be entangled with events at the zoo. Grimly repressing her fear of snakes, she joins the staff of the reptile house. Only to realize that the tiger isn't the only killer around. Mary Willis Walker is the author of Zero at the Bone, which won both the Agatha and Macavity awards and was nominated for an Edgar; The Red Scream, winner of the Edgar Award; and Under the Beetle's Cellar, recipient of the Hammett Prize, the Anthony Award, and the Macavity Award. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is now at work on her fifth novel. The book is complete and in GOOD - VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear. The insides of the front and back covers have browned and the edges of the inside pages are tanning.