The Last Beekeeper
Vespling Book 1

Thrilling! A wonderful blend of suspense, mystery and science fiction. This book is well-researched and educates the reader throughout about bees and genetic modification. There is enough of a connection to reality that the premise is not far off from something that could really happen. Excellent story......more

The Last Beekeeper is set on a small island in Lake Michigan and follows Jim Parker, a beekeeper in a Global Bee Crisis who rents out his bees for pollination to local producers. When someone starts to burn his beehives and the precious creatures and commodity they house, Jim begins a search for the......more

A science fiction book set in Michigan? I haven't said that sentence before! This book was a great time all the way through - set in gull island with mentions of other cities like Ann Arbor, etc. I thought the premise of bees going extinct, the food population being under attack, and suspicious corpo......more

I never imagined honey bees could be so interesting, or that subject to genetic modification, could be so terrifying. This book tells a truly terrifying, yet entirely plausible, story of the consequences of meddling with Mother Nature in the attempt to "fix" damage that we humans have caused to the......more

The story was ok, the characters and dialog were poorly done. They were all flat and unbelievable. Monsters attacking and killing people left and right and the teenage daughter continues to be moody and whiny. And her father is upset because she swore in front of him. Then she is missing in the wood......more