The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites / The Down East Murders: Sarah Deane 1 and 2

In two classic mysteries, an English teacher by profession discovers that sleuthing-of the strictly amateur variety-may be where her truest passions lie.

J. S. Borthwick's debut novel, The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites, takes Sarah Deane, still a grad student at this point, out of her natural New England habitat and into the wilds of Texas, where her maybe-boyfriend is keen on a spot of birdwatching. But birds are not all that she spies through her binoculars, and so the adventures begin....