The Flight of the Little Bird by Digby Maclaughlin On the night of June 4, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army advances on Tiananmen Square, guns blazing, and students demonstrating for democracy are forced to flee. A massive manhunt follows as China’s feared Public Security Bureau is ordered to capture and punish students at the centre of the uprising. Hong Kong-based journalist Susan Brady witnesses it all, and is horrified by it all, and when the mastermind behind a secret network helping the student leaders to escape asks for her help, she cannot refuse, ultimately risking her life to rescue the dissident China’s hard-line leaders fear the most and are determined to stop at all costs, an articulate and photogenic young woman code-named Little Bird. $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.
	A Bird of a Different Colour , a murder mystery for birders by Digby Maclaughlin Retired detective Patrick McCluskey has put a battle with booze, a messy divorce and a career-ending encounter with a Saturday Night Special behind him. Now he is happy to spend his winters taking the sun on a Florida beach with his new partner, Judith, a beautiful and exceptionally talented illustrator of birds. Then McCluskey's old pal Bobby Baer of the Cypress County police calls to say the super-rich president of the local birding society has been found face down in a nearby swamp, with McCluskey's name and phone number in her wallet. "Seems like she was planning to give you a call," says Lieutenant Baer. $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.
	Margaret's Many Lovers by Digby Maclaughlin Lieutenant Joe Cassidy of the Cypress Bay police force is baffled. The beautiful, young wife of a wealthy Florida real estate developer has been found dead in a ditch on the wrong side of town, her naked body brutally beaten. Clues are hard to come by, and suspects even harder. But with the help of a likeable but hopelessly incompetent sidekick called Bill Barasowski, and a vivacious divorcee called Peppi, Cassidy eventually picks his way through a tangle of country-club gossip to uncover a cruel and unforgiving world of illicit, kinky sex and Mafia-related fraud in which almost no one is what they seem to be. $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.
	Waiting For Godwits, a murder mystery for birders by Digby Maclaughlin Retired American detective Patrick McCluskey is a contented man, happily spending his summer months in Chesley-Next-The-Sea, a Mecca for birders on England's magnificent North Norfolk coast. With his new partner, Judith, a beautiful and talented illustrator of birds, he aims to put a battle with booze, a messy divorce and a career-ending bullet behind him. But the village's eccentric vicar talks him into investigating the disappearance of the church roof restoration fund and he is plunged into a tale of murderous mayhem that shatters forever his notions of peaceful pastoral life in the green and pleasant land. $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.
	The Trouble With Loving Lizzie by Digby Maclaughlin The People Power revolution of Corazon Aquino is rushing to its dramatic conclusion in the Philippines, a Humpty Dumpty called Ferdinand Marcos is about to have his great fall, and in the middle of it all Fleet Street correspondent Lizzie Hunt is having man troubles. Caught between the still-to-be-house-trained man she wants and the swashbuckling army colonel who wants her, she battles each day to file the story -- and the story behind the story -- until a ricocheting bullet fired into a screaming mob by a panicking soldier re-arranges the rest of her life. $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.
	A Bird to Die For, a murder mystery for birders by Digby Maclaughlin Retired American detective Patrick McCluskey’s only ambition is to live happily ever after with his beautiful English partner, Judith, a famous and exceptionally talented illustrator of birds. But within minutes of being called out to view the battered body of one of England’s most aggressive twitchers at the bottom of a sea wall on North Norfolk’s windswept coast, he knows he’s back in the sleuthing business, and in need of Judith’s expertise to lead him through the tangle of bitter rivalries that afflicts the competitive birding scene. “There aren’t many natural, born killers in birding,” Judith tells him. “But jealousy, petty and otherwise, is quite common. And -- oh dear, yes -- the grievances are often nursed for a very long time.” $4.99 in U.S. £3.71 in U.K.

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More about Digby:

Digby Maclaughlin is the pen name of a veteran journalist who grew weary of the facts getting in the way of good stories and, consequently, retired to write fiction.

Born in Scotland, Digby immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and subsequently moved to Canada.

As a foreign correspondent, he was variously based in Paris, Washington and Hong Kong.

His novel, The Flight of the Little Bird. is based, in part, on his experience in China before, during and after the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising.

His novel, The Trouble With Loving Lizzie, draws heavily on his time in the Philippines covering the 1986 People Power revolution that led to the downfall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his famous wife, Imelda.

Three of Digby’s books – Waiting for Godwits, A Bird of a Different Colour and A Bird to Die For – are murder mysteries written especially, but not exclusively, for birders.  Digby’s other murder mystery, Margaret’s Many Lovers, is more about sex. Birds hardly get mentioned.

Still to come. Digby has two other novels in the making. The first, 'The Pigeon Loft', is a sweeping tale of one family’s rise from Irish potato famine poverty to new world affluence.

The second, ‘A Man Called Harry’, is the story of a man who lies and cheats his way to the top, only to tumble into despairing poverty when it all starts to go wrong.

When not travelling, Digby now spends much of his time in a tiny village a short walk from the often-windswept North Norfolk coast of England, a Mecca for Birdwatchers from around the world.