TY - BOOK AU - Shaw,William TI - The birdwatcher: a novel SN - 9780316316248 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company KW - Police KW - England KW - Kent KW - Fiction KW - Secrecy KW - Bird watching KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Retribution KW - Kent (England) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - "Originally published in Great Britain by Quercus, May 2016" -- title page verso N2 - A methodical, diligent, and exceptionally bright detective, South is an avid birdwatcher and trusted figure in his small town on the rugged Kentish coast. He also lives with the deeply buried secret that, as a child in Northern Ireland, he may have killed a man. When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, South's world flips. The culprit seems to be a drifter from South's childhood; the victim was the only person connecting South to his early crime; and a troubled, vivacious new female sergeant has been relocated from London and assigned to work with South. As our hero investigates, he must work ever-harder to keep his own connections to the victim, and his past, a secret ER -