Death Shoots a Birdie, by Christine Goff. Berkley, 2007. Print Length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition: $3.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled."Rachel Wilder's first mistake was agreeing to dig up information on renowned birder Guy Saxby. Her second was involving her friend Dorothy MacBean. How could she have predicted the two would fall head-over-heels in love? Rachel's even more surprised when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his protege - whose startling expose would have upstaged his mentor's research on the painted bunting's prime habitat. But working to clear his name and unravel this mess, Rachel begins to wonder if - like the painted bunting - Saxby really did kill another male who was encroaching upon his turf..." - Publisher.
Falcon Finale, by Jan Dunlap. North Star Press, 2011. Print Length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition: 256 p. $7.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Lending: Enabled.
"Bob White is hoping to post a state record by sighting an elusive Gyrfalcon in Minnesota's Cottonwood County, but instead, finds himself flying to Flagstaff, Arizona, to help his sister track down her missing husband (aka Bob's best friend Alan Thunderhawk). As soon as he lands in the high mountain country, though, Bob finds more than he bargained for, including a twenty-year-old unsolved murder and a boy who claims to be Alan's son. Sifting his way through deception, land disputes, family secrets, and even an earthquake, Bob must strike a balance between suspicion and trust while he negotiates the tricky landscape of unearthing buried truths. Along the way, his birding expertise affords him close encounters with Arizona birds and possible murderers, but in order to solve the mystery and bring everyone home to Minnesota, Bob must first do something he's never done before not just find a killer, but figure out where the body is, too!" - Publisher.A Nest in the Ashes, by Christine Goff. Berkley, 2002. Print Length: 228 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition: $4.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"National Park Service ranger Eric Linenger has been asked to oversee a 'prescribed burn' of 1,000 acres of Rocky Mountain National Park. Although he knows the controlled fire is a necessity, it threatens the habitat of Green-Tailed Towhees and Virginia Warblers. His friends at EPOCH are strongly opposed, but it's Eric's job. Once lit, the flames quickly spread beyond the intended acreage—destroying a real estate development before finally being extinguished. The body of Eric's boss, Wayne Devlin, is found near the origin of the blaze - and it appears as if he deliberately intended the fire to rage out of control. As Eric investigates, he discovers that many people had reasons for ensuring the burn went all to blazes - including some of his friends..." - Author's website. Waiting for Godwits, by Digby Maclaughlin. Bantry Books, 2010. Print Length: 317 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition: $4.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Lending: Enabled.
"Written with Digby Maclaughlin’s typical light-hearted style and wit, Waiting for Godwits nevertheless has its share of dark suspense as the retired American detective, Patrick McCluskey, aided by his beautiful English partner, Judith, a famous and exceptionally talented illustrator of birds, set about the task of discovering who, among the inhabitants of Chesley-Next-The-Sea on England’s windswept North Norfolk coast, hated church warden Peter Pettypaw enough to kill him in cold blood." - Publisher. Murder on Warbler Weekend, by Jan Dunlap. North Star Press, 2009. Print Length: 193 p. Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition: $7.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Lending: Enabled.
"For birder Bob White, May in Minnesota means three things: counseling high school students with spring fever, coaching the girls’ tenth grade softball team and finding every warbler species during spring migration. But when his mother discovers a body in the midst of a morning of birding, disturbing items get added to Bob’s seasonal list: murder, gambling addictions, shady politics, and controversial land deals, not to mention the possibility of wearing an orange jumpsuit while making license plates..." - Publisher.The Real Macaw, by Donna Andrews. Minotaur Books, 2011. Print Length: 320 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (19 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99. Text-to-Speech:
"During a 2 am feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals - cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and a stunningly foul-mouthed macaw. She soon learns that financial woes have caused the local animal shelter to repeal its no-kill policy. Her kindhearted father, her zoologist grandfather, and other like-minded citizens have stolen all the shelter’s animals, both as a gesture of protest and to protect them until the hated policy can be repealed. But the volunteer who was to transport the animals to new homes has been murdered. Was it the victim’s tangled love life that drove someone to murder? Or the dark secrets behind local politics? And will Meg ever succeed in finding homes for all the animals that have landed in her life?" - Publisher. _______________________
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