A red-bellied woodpecker may lead to a yellow-bellied killer . . .
One morning when unwilling early bird Amy Simms grabs her binoculars for
a closer look at the woodpecker who's been waking her up, she can't
believe her eyes. Across Ruby Lake, through a curtain of rain, she sees
a body being tossed out of an upstairs window at the old McKutcheon
place.
Or at least she thinks she does. The police chief finds no body--only a
discarded dressmaker's dummy--and complains that Amy sent him on a
wild-goose chase. She should probably focus on minding her store, Birds
& Bees, but Amy can't help snooping. And when she turns up another
body--a murdered member of her birdwatching group--Amy once again needs
to wing it as a sleuth to zoom in on a killer . . .