Persnickety

D’Agata doesn’t view himself as a journalist at all, which is why he finds Fingal’s persnickety spreadsheet approach to his work so exasperating.

In order to abate a nesting seagull problem, Alternative Pest Solutions has applied to the City of Kiel to use pyrotechnics in an attempt to scare the birds from a location in Persnickety Park on Kiel’s north side.

As she works the case, Sister Jane, the charming protagonist of this mystery novel, is surrounded by a number of memorable characters: a wise old gray fox; a hound at the top of his game; and a persnickety calico.

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