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Book Review
Ok, kids, I found a mystery series that reminds me of some of the
offbeat personalities and are in this group and some of them that we have posted about. Donna Andrews has two series out. I'm not fond of her cyber-linked series, but then I couldn't find the first book in the series and that can be important. I couldn't find the first book in her Meg Langslow series until recently, but I had read all of the others. In her first Meg Langslow book, "Murder With Peacocks," we meet Meg, her off beat family and friends and the characters of her neighborhood outside Yorktown Virginia. Meg is the Matron of honor for three weddings. Each of them has a different flavor and different twists. Not only that but each of the prospective brides want to "fix" Meg up with a suitor, all of whom Meg knows and hates. The guy she's attracted to is rumored to be gay, the calligrapher is a drunken crazy cat lady, one of the guests is a nasty old woman who likes to verbally abuse people, Meg's father is a retired doctor who's hobbies include mysteries, gardening, bird watching and an obsession with seeing Meg's brother, Rob, join the medical field, Rob is taking his bar exams at the same time as he's battling his dad's medical career fixation. Uncle Horace runs around wearing a beat up old gorilla suit at parties and these are some of the milder characters. Guys, I couldn't put the first book down. I laughed so hard at times that I woke Rob up. Cats only come into it peripherally, but this series is way TOO funny. Oh and a murder is committed and solved in each book, honest. Pam S. |
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