The Tiger’s Child

John Neu

John Neu’s psychological mystery The Tiger’s Child follows a police chief and his sidekick, a local writer, as they attempt to solve the mysterious, violent deaths that occur after a boy releases wild animals from a private zoo. Neu begins building suspense in the opening scene set near the Wisconsin River and the fictional town of Fox Prairie, Wisconsin. When the boy comes to the tiger cage, Neu writes, “He had never been in a cage with a tiger before. His heart was pounding so hard his chest hurt. He opened the door and stepped inside, and the tiger rose immediately and moved quickly in a crouch to him.”

John Neu received his master’s in library science from UW-Madison in 1959 and was hired as a bibliographer in 1963, a position he held until his retirement in 1999. While working for the libraries, Neu wrote habitually in early mornings for his own pleasure. The Tiger’s Child is the first book Neu has published.

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