Yellow Bird — Douglas Quinn

When Webb heada to his aunt Tabby's house to investigate her claim of flying painted turtles and giant red hopping rabbits, he arrives to find an old family friend, Erskine Weeks, had made a fatal one-point landing with his crop duster in Tabby's front ward. Then, when Deputy Aubrey Meads confides to Webb his suspicion that it may not have been an accident, Webb's life turns into a nightmare of overt threats and covert assassination attempts, not to mention being bitten by a deadly water moccasin. Are these events related, or is there more than one person out to get him and his aunt? The answers are diybs in Yellow Bird, the 5th Webb Sawyer mystery by Douglas Quinn, the author of over 31 novels and children's chapter books.