I was asked to review this book by Real Readers.

This is the authors debut novel and what an interesting slant to a detective series – a story that is set around bird watching and in an interesting setting Norfolk.

This has a feeling of the books by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope) in Northumberland.

The protagonist Inspector Domenic Jejeune is unusual as he is a good inspector but would rather be bird watching than doing his day job (there are a lot of us out there that would rather concentrate on hobbies than the grind of work)

Crime and twitching bump into each other with a gruesome murder and Jejeune needs to solve a mystery.

Although this is a debut novel the author gives the back ground as though this is not the first – and whets the reader’s appetite to want to know more about this Canadian detective and just why he is in Norfolk.

The reader will be transported to Saltmarsh and learn about bird watching from this very experienced author.

I will be looking out for this author in the future – lot of potential to be up there with the established crime writers.