A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows. (London: OneWorld Publications, 2017)
This book is extremely interesting because it combines a
British police procedural mystery with bird watching. The main character, Chief Inspector Domenic
Jejeune, is off on a bird watching expedition to Colombia but his reasons for
the trip involve more than checking bird species off of his list. Because of his absence, his colleagues back
in England must handle a baffling murder without his insight. And they have the help of one of Jejeune’s
least favorite detectives to solve the mystery.
Author Steve Burrows weaves these two stories together in a
lovely tangle that kept me guessing until the end of the book. Alternating the action between Jejeune in
Colombia and his colleages in Saltmarsh in the UK added intensity and daring to
the action. As interesting as both story
lines were, I really enjoyed the descriptions of the landscape in Colombia and
the various birds that Jejeune encountered on his trip.
This book is number four of a series about Jejeune. I plan to go back and read some of the
earlier books and to keep an eye out for new ones. The book is not an easy read, but once you
get hooked, you don’t want to put it down.
I give it three beach umbrellas.
⛱ ⛱ ⛱
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