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Book SynopsisBeware the blackbirds
It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more roomand she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library.
There's something about Grackle Tree Farm that people are willing to kill forand Mercy needs to figure out what before they move in. A coded letter found on the victim points to a hidden treasure that may be worth a fortuneif it's real. She and Captain Thrasher conduct a search of the old placeand end up at the wrong end of a Glock. A masked man shoots Thrasher, and she and Elvis must take him down before he murders them all. Under fire, she and Elvis manage to run the guy off, but not before they are woun