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"It" is the sixth adventure in Judith Van Gieson's highly acclaimed suspense series featuring Albuquerque lawyer-cum-sleuth Neil Hamel. "It" is also the kidnapping of a remarkable woman, brilliant parrot researcher Deborah Dumaine, and a remarkable bird, an incomparably rare indigo macaw named Perigee. When Dumaine's headstrong husband, Terrance Lewellen, plays a tape of the kidnapping for Neil and asks her to find his wife and bird, Neil is thrown headlong into a dark and dangerous realm where some will pay top dollar for smuggled parrots, and others will do anything - to the parrots, to anyone who crosses their path - that will learn them top dollar. Though Neil suspects that Lewellen, who was in the throes of a bitter divorce from Dumaine, might somehow be involved in the kidnapping,... |