An Owl Too Many (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 8)

Professor Peter Shandy returns in “a high-flying farce with humor that ranges from broad slapstick to quiet witticisms. . . . This murder most fowl is a hoot” (Publishers Weekly).
 Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick’s interest is in environmental programming—a subject that inspires even the driest Balaclava professor to wax poetic. In his search for material, Emmerick joins Peter Shandy and a few of his colleagues on the annual owl-count. And though the television producer’s loud mouth and heavy feet make him a dismal birdwatcher, none of the academics expect him to make a fatal blunder. Chasing what appears to be a badly lost snowy owl, Emmerick stumbles into a trap that yanks him into a tree. By the time the professors reach him, he’s been stabbed to death. Discovering that the snowy owl was nothing more than a handful of feathers attached to a fishing pole, Shandy concludes that Emmerick was murdered. Plenty of people might like to kill a television producer, but which would-be killer had the gall to make the helpless Nyctea scandiaca an accomplice?

• Something in the Water (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 9)
• Vane Pursuit (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 7)
• Exit the Milkman: A Professor Peter Shandy Mystery (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 10)
• The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 6)
• The Curse of the Giant Hogweed (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 5)
• Something the Cat Dragged In (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 4)
• The Luck Runs Out (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 2)
• Wrack and Rune (The Peter Shandy Mysteries Book 3)
• The Resurrection Man (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 10)
• The Silver Ghost (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 8)