A Flock of Crows is Called a Murder

Real estate development unleashes a bloodthirsty supernatural force in James Viscosi's dark and at times, disgusting debut, A Flock of Crows Is Called a Murder. (A gang of bears, by the way, is called a sleuth; the town herein could have used a good one.) Quentin Farmer has his eyes set on an abandoned church as the site for his new shopping mall, but inside lurks an evil presence; pretty soon, all around Selden Falls, people are dying, getting pecked at by vampiric crows, and even turning into nasty birds themselves.