Young Tom French was found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast,
with his head bashed in and his binoculars still around his neck. One of
the best birders in England, Tom had put the village of Rushy on the
birdwatching map. Everyone liked him. Or did they? George Palmer-Jones,
an elderly birdwatcher who decided quietly to look into the brutal
crime, discovered mixed feelings aplenty. Still, he remained baffled by
a deed that could have been motivated by thwarted love, pure envy, or
something else altogether. But as he and his fellow "twitchers" flocked
from Norfolk to Scotland to the Scilly Isles, in response to rumors of
rare sightings, George--with help from his lovely wife, Molly--gradually
discerned the true markings of a killer. All he had to do was prove it .
. . before the murderer strikes again.