Riches to rags. &hellip; Chaos calms. &hellip; Suddenly it&rsquo;s quiet. &hellip; Too quiet if Doreen&rsquo;s involved!<br /><br />What was supposed to be a leisurely stroll through a peaceful cemetery after a recent funeral turns into the start of a new case. Someone clobbers Doreen over the head and leaves her facedown among the funeral flowers.<br /><br />Is it random violence? Revenge? A warning of worse to come?<br /><br />No one knows, not even Doreen, but one thing is certain: the attack enabled the disappearance&mdash;perhaps the abduction?&mdash;of Doreen&rsquo;s beloved African gray parrot, Thaddeus. Frantic, Doreen foregoes a trip to the emergency room in favor of heading straight home, where she hopes Thaddeus will return sooner rather than later.<br /><br />When he does show up, riding a branch down the river, coming right home, he&rsquo;s different, and all he can talk about is Big Guy. He&rsquo;s also sporting an SOS message fastened around his ankle&hellip; Doreen sets out to retrace Thaddeus&rsquo;s path, while Mack hunts down her attacker.<br /><br />Between birds and boys and Corporal Mack Moreau&rsquo;s brother, the lawyer looking into her divorce situation, Doreen has her hands full. And that&rsquo;s before her former lawyer shows up unexpectedly at her home! Off-balance by all these events, Doreen opens her door to someone with a serious grudge to take her down...