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Reviewed: Sick as a Parrot By
Liz Evans (Orion Publishing Group, London, UK, 2004, 248 pp, ISBN:
0-75286-023-2, U.S. $16.95 p/b) Like The Final Solution and We'll Always Have Parrots, this tale of mystery and mayhem also involves an African grey (funny how these guys seem to entwine themselves in mysteries, isn't it?) although the bird is not involved in a murder. While trying to prove a client’s mother innocent
of a 20-year-old murder, PI Grace Smith Although I enjoyed the book as a mystery, since
the parrot angle was really just a secondary story, I didn’t enjoy it as much
as the other two that involved greys within the main story lines. Again, like the Donna Andrews book, We'll Always Have Parrots, the cover art is wrong: there is a picture of a macaw instead of a grey, even though the grey is the only parrot in the story. It sure would be nice if art directors would read
at least enough of the story in order to feature the proper parrot species, even
if it does not necessarily make the most colorful type of parrot for a cover …
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is conned into baby-sitting a somewhat psychotic parrot named Tallulah. The bird
is a feather-picker and has a very unique vocabulary coupled with a real knack
for getting into mischief (No! Not a grey!)