TY - BOOK AU - Cleeves,Ann TI - A bird in the hand T2 - Palmer-Jones series SN - 9781035003440 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Pan Macmillan KW - Palmer-Jones, George, KW - Palmer-Jones, Molly, KW - Palmer-Jones, George (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Palmer-Jones, Molly (Fictitious character) KW - Bird watching KW - Murder KW - Investigations KW - Bird watchers KW - Norfolk (England) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Adult fiction N1 - First published in 1986 by Century. Reprinted in 2018 by Pan Macmillan N2 - In England's birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted a murderer. 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 rumours 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 ER -