Monster

Monster by A. Lee Martinez  295 pp.

In warped Martinez style, this book begins with a Yeti ravaging a grocery store. Enter Monster Dionysus and his assistant Chester, a paper gnome, of Cryptobiological Containment & Rescue Services who are freelance contractors to Animal Control charged with capturing stray creatures of the mythological sort. By the end of this convoluted yarn I was picturing this as a movie with Linda Hunt playing the evil, tea-drinking Mrs. Lotus.