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  • The Birds That Stay

  • A Russell and Leduc Mystery, Book 1
  • By: Ann Lambert
  • Narrated by: Ann Lambert
  • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

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The Birds That Stay

By: Ann Lambert
Narrated by: Ann Lambert
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Publisher's Summary

Hailed by the New York Journal of Books as a “fascinating and gripping tale of suspense”.

In a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, chief inspector for homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years but reluctantly answers the call on the case. Marie Russell lives in the same small community. She did not know her elderly neighbor, and she does not expect to become embroiled in solving her murder. But when a startling new clue emerges, Marie becomes an inadvertent detective. As Marie and Roméo combine wits to find the killer, they are forced to face demons from their own pasts as they confront a case where no one and nothing is really as it seems.

©2019 Ann Lambert (P)2020 Second Story Press

Critic Reviews

“The setting is the Laurentians, north of Montreal. That leads one to inevitably think of Louise Penny’s Three Pines, but let the comparison stop there. Yes, both are rural and very Quebec, but Lambert is telling a very different story in a very different way.” (The Globe and Mail)

“Lambert will scratch your murder-mystery itch, rest assured, but she resists the common tendency to place the action in a sealed-off world where murder is normalized. The Birds That Stay is fully engaged with life.” (The Montreal Gazette)

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