Status Updates From Death of a Songbird (The Bi...

Did [redacted] just break a window with their unprotected fist? That seems like a bad idea.

And there it is, just like I guessed, her home has been ransacked. Because only an idiot would have told a room full of top murder suspects the location of a ledger that almost certainly holds key information.

Okay, the murderer is almost certainly in this group, and I'm willing to bet that Lark's home is going to be ransacked within 24 hours.

Now we're on a bird watching trip. Art is the kind of annoying expert who makes newbies feel awkward and bad about asking questions.

This is the second typo I've caught, this time a character's name spelled all in lowercase. I have a feeling that if I were a more careful reader, I'd probably have caught more. Not capitalizing a character's name is a pretty glaring mistake.

This is the most boring cozy mystery I've read in a while.

A murder has occurred, witnessed by the main character as she was out bird watching.

This is the second book and I haven't read the first, but it seems that each one stars a different character, so maybe that's not really a problem. I've seen this kind of setup in lots of romance series, but I don't think I've ever seen it before in a cozy mystery series.

Lark's business partner is dead, brutally stabbed. Lark saw it happen, from a distance through a birding scope. What exactly did she see?

So far, the story is focusing on Rachel's friend, Lark, and her business relationships. Things look bad for one of them.