Harm's Way — Catherine Aird

MURDER AS THE CROW FLIES

The finger dropped by a common crow on a woodsy English footpath was most uncommonly missing a body. But a single digit was enough to tell Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan that something was rotten in the county of Calleshire...something besides the dead man who lay unburied somewhere among the dewy green fields of British farmland. So while search teams scoured the area for the corpus delicti, Sloan went looking for evidence of murder in a county village's most fertile ground--at the local pub. There the slips betwixt cup and lip might provide the clues to finding both corpse and killer in Inspector Sloan's most challenging case.