Parrot Blues

She may be a divorce lawyer, but Neil Hameluses her PI's instincts when a millionaire's rare indigo macaw and newlyendangered wife are kidnapped together. The unusual search puts her right inthe heart of New Mexico's breathtaking Plains of San Agustin, for a dangerousgame of bird smuggling and one-upmanship. Armed with high-tech surveillanceequipment and a backpack full of her client's money, Neil treks to a remoteexchange point. Alas, she returns with the indigo but no wife, and she'sbeginning to get ideas. When she learns that one of her chief suspects hassuspiciously expired in her absence, Neil makes it her mission to find out whokilled him and where the kidnapped woman is. So far, the only eyewitnesses arethe parrots—and they're not talking.