The Sloth's Eye — Linda Lombardi

Everyone comes to see the charming yearly ritual of elephants playfully stomping pumpkins at Halloween. Small mammal keeper Hannah usually thinks it's not fair -- why do the big animals get all the attention? But this year the fun turns deadly: the lover of charismatic zoo director Allison is found dead in the elephant yard -- where he'd been left with a pumpkin carved to fit his head. And just when Hannah's feeling lucky to be in the background, Allison reveals her plan to distract the media from the murder: a celebration of the new wombat that she promised to the Small Mammal House. But the real trouble begins when she discovers that her favorite sloth has been kidnapped and it's obviously an inside job...