Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Some Like It Hawk
Some Like It Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery | Donna Andrews
4 posts | 7 read | 2 to read
Meg helps run Caerphilly's summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer—turn up the heat, because Some Like it Hawk! The hilariously funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the award-winning New York Times bestselling series that has captured human and avian hearts alike. Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at "Caerphilly Days," a festival inspired by her town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail." The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated —except one. Phineas Throckmorton, the town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year. Mr. Throckmorton's long siege has only been possible because of a pre-Civil War tunnel leading from the courthouse basement to a crawl space beneath the bandstand. The real reason for Caerphilly Days is to conceal the existence of the tunnel: the tourist crowds camouflage supply deliveries, and the ghastly screeching of the tunnel's rusty trap door is drowned out by as many noisy activities as the locals can arrange. But the lender seems increasingly determined to evict Mr. Throckmorton—and may succeed after one of its executives is found shot, apparently from inside the basement. Meg and her fellow townspeople suspect that someone hopes to end the siege by framing Mr. Throckmorton. Unless the real killer can be found quickly, the town will have to reveal the secret of the tunnel—and the fact that they've been aiding and abetting the basement's inhabitant. Meg soon deduces that the killer isn't just trying to end the siege but to conceal information that would help the town reclaim its buildings--if the townspeople can find it before the lender destroys it in a gut-busting caper that will have giggles and guffaws coming as fast as a four-alarm fire. A gaggle of praise for Donna Andrews and the Meg Langslow Mystery Series: "If you long for more fun mysteries, a la Janet Evanovich, you'll love Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow series." —Charlotte Observer "A long-running series that gets better all the time. A fine blend of academic satire, screwball comedy, and murder." —Booklist "As always, Andrews laces this entertaining whodunit with wit, a fine storyline and characters we've come to know and love." —Richmond Times-Dispatch on The Real Macaw
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Preciouz29
Pickpick

Love getting a little update to see what‘s happening!

review
JoyBlue
post image
Mehso-so

Maybe reading installment 14 without reading a bunch of the books before wasn't the best idea. It was OK, but not stellar. [I've read three of her earlier books, in 2001 & 2002.]

blurb
Mindelan
post image

Feeling nervous about my first full week of New Job (everything is going fine, I'm just not great at new things), so falling back on an old favorite: #audiopuzzling & cozy mysteries. Going to assemble this bad boy, write a message on the back and mail it to a friend. Hopefully some Caerphilly madness will cure what ails me.

blurb
monkeygirlsmama
post image

#DNF I'd never tried this author before but thought I'd give it a try. I guess I shouldn't have tried the audio first because this narrator absolutely killed it for me. I made it an hour in and just can't any more. I also found the author's lack of variety when it came to indicating dialogue to be annoying. It was "she said/he said" practically every other line. My SIL tried it while I had it on loan; she also couldn't stand the narrator. ??

15 likes1 stack add