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Sep 07, 2015ready2read rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I really liked the first book in this series (A Siege of Bitterns, 2014) and I think I liked this one even more. If Steve Burrows keeps writing these books - and I hope he does - I could learn the collective noun for every bird species in the world! Bonus. The main character, Domenic Jejeune, is a transplanted Canadian working as a Chief Inspector in Norfolk England where he has made a name for himself as a genius after solving some high profile cases. Unfortunately, policing is not Dom's true passion - he is obsessed with birds. We , the reader,know that Dom has the knowledge, background, and education to actually work in the field but he doesn't. Why? We don't really know but the author feeds us a few crumbs, but just enough to make us think it has SOMETHING to do with a brother dirtying the family name in the bird world. A lot of people shake their heads at Jejeune but he gets the job done. In the following passage Jejeune's sergeant observes him as he arrives at a crime scene ....." He had seen Jejeune arrive, watched him park The Beast (his car) some way off and walk along the lane to where everyone was gathered. He had seen him pause suddenly, freeze, not once, but twice, each time straining to listen to a sound coming from the marsh that stretched beyond the bridge. Even at a time like this, thought Maik, with a suspect's car precariously balanced between the lane and the marsh ten feet below, and the suspect himself who knew where, even now Inspector Jejeune takes the time to listen to a bird call. " p170 Written by a Canadian author.