Copernicus is not Winifred Baxter's familiar.
He's just a crow who lives in her botanical apothecary on the Maine coast, has strong opinions about shelf arrangement, and has never once been wrong about anything.
When he drops a brass survey ring at her feet the morning the town's most notorious gossip is found dead on the harbor dock, Winifred understands two things: the ring came from the crime scene, and Copernicus is absolutely not going to explain himself.
Tracing the ring leads her into a decades-old property dispute, a falsified harbor log, and a town selectman who has been hoping no one pays too much attention. Arthur Lester, the new harbormaster who keeps finding reasons to buy herbal tea he clearly doesn't like, is either helping or in the way.
Copernicus hasn't decided yet. Winifred is trying not to have an opinion.
A paranormal cozy mystery about small-town secrets, a very opinionated bird, and the particular difficulty of trusting someone who cannot answer a direct question.
