Parrots Prove Deadly — Clea Simon

BIRD'S EYE VIEW…TO MURDER

Polly doesn't want a cracker. Eighty-four-year-old Polly Larkin is dead, and her African Gray parrot may have been a witness to foul play. The evidence points to the senior expiring from an accidental overdose of meds. But the bad-tempered bird's cryptic squawking tells a different tale.

Hired by Larkin's daughter to retrain the problem pet -- aka Randolph Jones -- animal behaviorist and pet psychic Pru Marlowe realizes he's feeding her clues. As she tries to recreate the victim's last night, her unofficial investigation takes her into a world of greed and corruption. And into the sights of a cold-blooded killer desperate to silence the bird…and Pru.