Review: A Shimmer of Hummingbirds, by Steve Burrows

A Shimmer of Hummingbirds, by Steve Burrows (Dundurn, 2017)

���The cold lay across the land like a punishment.���

How���s that for an opening line to set the scene? In this classic mystery, the cold land is coastal northern England in December. When readers start getting too vicariously chilly, the next chapter will take us to the heat of Colombia.

Not only is there a murder for the local British constabulary to solve, but Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune has left the coun...