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Between a Flock and a Hard Place: A Meg Langlsow Mystery
Donna Andrews
Minotaur Books
Book 35 of the Meg Langslow series is
just as good as the ones that came before. I do miss reading about Meg working as
a blacksmith, she hasn’t quite she just seems a little busy. I used to want to
be part of Meg’s mom’s family, now I think that the best position would be to
have a parent who is a Hollingsworth and the other is a Shifley. Once you get
two chapters into the story you will see what I mean. About two chapters into
the story is about where the crazy begins and I am not talking about the
murder. The crazy starts with the turkeys. Feral turkeys, yes you read that
correctly, feral turkeys and they have been relocated under cover of night to
the home where a reality remodel show is taking place. No one seems to know how
the turkeys were moved but it has halted production of the show. In addition, Mayor
Randall Shifley, who owns his own construction company, has halted the work on
the remodel because at least one load bearing wall has been knocked down. There
is absolute chaos going on but Meg does a great job keeping it together as the
Mayor’s assistant thanks to her calm demeanor and her notebook that “tells her
when to breathe.” The victim is not the nicest of people, Meg questions
neighbors and learns that Mrs. Smetkamp is a bit snippy and should probably
have bought in the Westlake community (read Birder, She Wrote) rather than
remodeling a classically styled house. The former owner is not happy with the
proposed changes and shows up often acting like an unofficial HOA board member
to voice his disapproval. The producer disappears which is a bit concerning, is
he running because he is guilty of murder or is he another victim? Meg learns from
husband Michael’s coworker Gloria who also lives next to the remodel mishap that
her tenant Kevin, is renting out the attic and quite possibly stealing power to
run his bank of servers so who knows what else he may be capable of. It is a
bit creepy how he keeps looking out between the curtains while the volunteers
round up the turkeys and the police handle the murder.
As you can see there are plenty of
suspects, plenty of crazy, and plenty of entertainment. It would not be a
Caerphilly cozy without those aspects. I give it a five turkeys out of five.
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