For Amy Simms, hatching a birding shop in her hometown of Ruby Lake, North Carolina, hasn't exactly been a breeze. But could a deadly discovery clip her wings for good? It's just days before Amy plans to open Birds & Bees on the first floor of her creakyVictorian house, but delayed seed shipments have prevented the fledging owner from stocking her shelves. And it doesn't help that Amy's best friend and business partner is out of town indefinitely. With locals skeptical about the niche shop taking flight, the last thing Amy needs now is a dead man in her storeroom-or for a crotchety tenant to catch her holding a bloody birdfeeder hook over his body . . . Pigeonholed as a leading murder suspect by police and lacking a solid alibi, Amy's delving into the victim's ugly past and buzzing around Ruby Lake for clues on his killer . . . beforeshe ends up like so many of her beloved feathery friends-trapped behind bars This is part of "A Bird Lover's Mystery" series., While trying to get her birding shop off the ground, Amy Simms must clear her name in the murder of a man with an ugly past over whom she was caught standing with a bloody birdfeeder., While trying to get her birding shop off the ground, Amy Simms must clear her name in the murder of a man with an ugly past over whom she was caught standing with a bloody birdfeeder. (mystery & detective)