When Detective Matt Allenby arrived in the hamlet of Taylors Crossing in the hills near Perth in Western Australia, to investigate the murder of one of the town's inhabitants, he thought it would be a straightforward case. He didn’t expect the locals to have secrets of their own, which would conflict with his investigations. What had caused Trudy Enright to leave the delights of Sydney’s Kings Cross to settle in Taylors Crossing with Dave Herridge and run a small general store? Cecily Loving had a past she kept from the locals. Did she really think her husband was a drug dealer? There is Seward Woodwine and his unusual daughter, Gretchen, who is a keen birdwatcher. Could any of these people have been involved in the murder or was it someone from outside the town. Then Matt finds he is falling in love with one of his suspects. A cosy murder mystery about people making a new life for themselves in a community where they have made new friends when a murder threatens to destroy their new found peace.