The Rotting Whale, Jann Eyrich
The Rotting Whale, Jann Eyrich
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The Rotting Whale

Author: Jann Eyrich

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2024


Synopsis

When the natural world and the build world collide, the earth needs a good building inspector . . .

In this first case in the new Hugo Sandoval Eco-Mystery series, an old-school San Francisco building inspector must reluctantly venture outside his beloved city and find his sea legs before he can solve the mystery of how a ninety-ton blue whale became stranded, twice, in a remote inlet off the North Coast.

Set on the turbulent Mendocino Coast against the backdrop of a failing fishing fleet and illegal cannabis grows, Sandoval encounters roadblocks and lies as he grapples with the connection between a red tag posted on the historic Chicken Cove ranch and the decomposing marine mammal at the foot of its cliffs.

Debilitated by more than a few idiosyncrasies, reluctant media darling Hugo Sandoval is a people's hero, fighting the good fight in a modern era where development and climate change butt heads—and where each requested permit attempts to eclipse the old San Francisco Sandoval loves.

About Jann Eyrich

Working as a hands-on, independent woman contractor in San Francisco for twenty years, Jann Eyrich resided in the legendary shacks of Telegraph Hill where the writer was gifted anchorage to the City, along with insight into the lives of the characters she continues to create. First as a documentary filmmaker, then as a screenwriter, Eyrich's stories always seem to be set within an environmental footprint. Later, as a writer and an activist in Sonoma County, Jann heard about a real blue whale stranding itself on the Mendocino Coast in 2009 and, with that, the adventures and character of Hugo Sandoval were born.


Reviews

Goodreads review by RMazin on August 21, 2023

An unlikely San Francisco building inspector has an eye for detail that serves him well in his chosen occupation as well as his unbounded curiosity to solve mysteries. When his cetologist daughter calls him from a coastal area just north of SF, Hugo Sandoval leaves his beloved city to go to her aid.......more

Goodreads review by Jodi on November 21, 2023

A new genre, eco-mystery, environmental awareness with mystery solving. Mostly set in Mendocino county, this cozy, atmospheric novel is well written with a surprising twist. I loved it!......more

Goodreads review by Stanley on August 29, 2023

Read my full review on Rosepoint Publishing. The storyline follows a San Francisco building inspector called to the northern coastal area by his daughter to investigate a blue whale that washed up on the shoreline near Fort Bragg. Hugo meets up with his daughter, camped on a long-established ranch,......more

Goodreads review by RMazin on August 21, 2023

An unlikely San Francisco building inspector has an eye for detail that serves him well in his chosen occupation as well as his unbounded curiosity to solve mysteries. When his cetologist daughter calls him from a coastal area just north of SF, Hugo Sandoval leaves his beloved city to go to her aid.......more

Goodreads review by Janet on December 08, 2023

How does an antique blue bottle wedged in a San Francisco seawall, a red-tagged, perfectly-sound building on the Mendocino coast, and, of course, a beached rotting whale come together in a baffling mystery? Building inspector Hugo Sandoval, his ex-wife Carmen, and their marine biologist daughter Eva......more