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      The Bird Yard

      by Julia Wallis Martin
      Published
      Sep 1999
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      Suspense Suspense
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      352
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      When 12-year-old Joseph Coyne is missing and is assumed to have been abducted, Detective Parker makes a promise to the boy's mother: We'll get him back, alive. It proves to be a promise that Parker cannot keep. When another young boy is missing under similar circumstances, the evidence leads Parker to an aviary or bird yard attached to an abandoned house. While the finches imprisoned in the aviary exert a magical appeal to the young boys who surreptitiously come to watch them, its owner is a shadowy figure whose hold over his young visitors seems far more sinister. Convinced that the killer is stalking his third victim, a child Parker knows, he enlists the help of a child psychologist to unravel a dark secret.

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      Suspense

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      Police Procedural

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      Jun 2001 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312971380 ISBN10 0312971389
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      First Edition Sep 1999 Minotaur Books ISBN13 9780312205003 ISBN10 0312205007
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      Apr 2012 THE EDGAR ALLAN PRESS LTD ISBN10 B007SHM7XG
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