Toucan Keep a Secret

Toucan keep a secret, if one of them is dead in the twenty-third book in Donna Andrews' hilarious New York Times bestselling seriesMeg Langslow is checking on the toucan that Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering at the church when she hears hammering in the columbarium (the underground crypt housing cremated remains). There, Meg finds niches chiseled open; several urns knocked out; and a gold ring with a huge red stone amid the spilled ashes; and a murdered parishioner. The curmudgeonly victim had ranted all over town about taking back his wife's ashes from the church. Did someone who had it in for him follow him to the columbarium? Or was the motive grave robbery? Why was the ruby left? When Meg contacts the families of the people whose ashes were disturbed, she uncovers secrets about Caerphilly's history, and finds that the toucan may play a role in unmasking the killer.