Caws and Effect

Copernicus is not Winifred Baxter's familiar.

He's just a crow who lives in her botanical apothecary on the Maine coast, has strong opinions about shelf arrangement, and has never once been wrong about anything.

When he drops a brass survey ring at her feet the morning the town's most notorious gossip is found dead on the harbor dock, Winifred understands two things: the ring came from the crime scene, and Copernicus is absolutely not going to explain himself.

Tracing the ring leads her into a...