The Funeral Owl (A Philip Dryden Mystery)

When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal, or 'Funeral' Owl, journalist Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. In the violent and terrible week that follows, the sighting of the owl proves prophetic in more ways than one.