FAIRFIELD'S AUCTION by Betty Jean Craige
If you have committed a murder or are planning to commit one, keep the parrot out of hearing distance. In Fairfield's Auction , Doolittle, the African Grey Parrot, unintentionally helps identify the murderer. Fairfield's Auction , released by Black Opal Books in February of 2016, is the second novel in my Witherston Murder Mystery trilogy set in the fictive town of Witherston in the north Georgia mountains. The first, which came out in November of 2014, is Downstream . The third, Dam Witherston , will be out in 2017. All of them illustrate the idea expressed by John Muir in 1869 that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." Ever since I moved to Georgia in 1973 I have been enchanted with the north Georgia mountains, the culture and crafts of the people there, and the thousand year history of the Cherokee civilization—and not enchanted with the north Georgia poultry industry. When I've follo...