However, a missing boa from the zoo makes an appearance at the new venue during the concert, followed by a bevy of ducks in the Catholic church. Once they are removed, the smell requires the local Christmas concert to be moved to another church. With only a few days until Christmas, the New Life Baptist Church has been filled with a cage full of skunks. Here, we get a more prankster, mischievous blend of tale. It would be another five years before Andrews would write a second Christmas-themed story, giving us Duck the Halls in 2013. Eccentric folks abound, Meg is usually the voice of reason with her clear head and uncanny ability to find herself surrounded by murder. The small-town feel and corky characters are reminiscent of the fictional Stars Hollow of Gilmore Girls fame. It’s the setting and her returning cast of characters that really shine in this series. Add in one peeved local group by the name of SPOOR-Stop Poisoning Our Owls and Raptors-that didn’t particularly like Ralph and his grumpy, animal detesting ways, and things begin to get murky. Soon, the excitement turns to shock when the local fellow playing good ol’ Saint Nick, Ralph Doleson, is found dead. In this 10th installment in the Meg Langslow series, Meg and her husband, Michael, are busy planning the local Caerphilly Christmas Parade with the theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas. The first book I read in the series happened to be Six Geese A-Slaying, a tale set around the holidays in the wonderful Langslow universe.
And on Christmas Eve, what better time to stock up on three perfect Christmas cozies? Since then, she’s written more than twenty novels, including the on-going Langslow series, which is a favorite of mine.īut it's her Christmas mysteries that keep me coming back. The book garnered her the coveted Agatha Award, opening the door for her to expand on Meg’s story-one about an amateur detective that is a blacksmith by day set in Caerphilly, Virginia-and Andrews hasn’t stopped producing.
Donna Andrews’s first novel, Murder with Peacocks, was published in 1999, beginning her critically acclaimed series of Meg Langslow murder mysteries.
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