TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Donnell,Paraic
TI  - The naming of the birds: a novel 
SN  - 9781963108033
AV  - PR6115.D57 N36 2025
U1  - 823/.92 23/eng/20250103
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - Portland, Oregon
PB  - Tin House
KW  - Detectives
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant who long ago retired to tend his orchids. If the motive for his killing is a mystery, the manner of his death is more bewildering still. The victims that follow suffer similar fates, their deaths gruesome but immaculately orchestrated. The murderer comes and goes like a ghost, leaving only carefully considered traces. As the hunt for this implacable adversary mounts, the inspector's gloom deepens, and to Sergeant Bliss, his methods seem as mystifying as the crimes themselves. Why is he digging through dusty archives while the murderer stalks further victims? And as hints of past wrongdoing emerge-and with them the faint promise of a motive-why does Cutter seem haunted by some long-ago failing of his own? To find the answers, the meek and hapless sergeant must step out of the inspector's shadow. Aided by Octavia Hillingdon, a steely and resourceful journalist, Bliss will uncover truths that test his deepest beliefs."--Provided by publisher
ER  -