The Good, the Bad, and the Emus: A Meg Langslow Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries), by Donna Andrews
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The Good, the Bad, and the Emus: A Meg Langslow Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries), by Donna Andrews
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Meg Langslow knows that murder is never pretty. And things are about to take an ugly turn. . .Go ahead...make Meg's day. It's not as if her life could get any weirder. Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, entered her life a few years ago after seeing Meg's picture in the paper-she's a dead ringer for her grandmother, Cordelia, after all. Now local private investigator Stanley Denton has been hired to track down Cordelia's whereabouts...only to find that she mysteriously passed away within the year. And Meg's newly found cousin, Annabel, claims it was murder. So much for a festive family reunion...
"A sprightly mystery...Andrews's readers, who have come to expect a little silliness, fun-loving characters, and endings that are tough to predict, won't be disappointed." -Publishers WeeklyStanley and Meg agree to help track down the killer and get justice for Cordelia. Dr. Blake has an idea about how to distract the locals from their investigation: He'll stage a rescue of the feral emus that have escaped from an abandoned local farm. When murder strikes again, Meg suspects that the killer may indeed be among the flock of rescue volunteers...but what now? While her grandfather pursues that lead, Meg continues to investigate both murders with a lot of help from Annabel, who can shed some light on some long-buried family secrets. But will they solve the case before the killer strikes again? "Andrews's smooth and erudite style, realistic snappy dialogue, and subtle humor create an intriguing and entertaining romp."-New York Journal of Books
The Good, the Bad, and the Emus: A Meg Langslow Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries), by Donna Andrews- Amazon Sales Rank: #202575 in Books
- Brand: Andrews, Donna
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.77" h x .95" w x 4.21" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
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“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
“Six Geese A-Slaying produces at least one chuckle--and sometimes a guffaw--per page. Joy to the world, indeed.” ―Richmond Times-Dispatch
About the Author Donna Andrews has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and two Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Private Investigators and Security Association. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Comfy return By Greyhaunt I've always loved this series, but I have to confess that with the last few books I've found myself rather missing some of that which originally drew me to it. Where is cousin Horace and his gorilla suit? Surely he hasn't discarded his furry ways. Why does Michael seem relegated to just someone who keeps the kids out of the way while Meg investigates things? Even Spike, the terrible one, seems rather downplayed this time out. And Meg's blacksmithing - such an incredibly unique profession for a cozy mystery detective - seems to have been referred to in the last several offerings as something she hopes to do more, yet never seems to. I'd really like to see that come back to some prominence in one of the books.Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the book and devoured it in one evening as I have every book in the series, but I rather miss some of the "old friends" and fear that the introduction of new ones will just push them further away.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Growing up and Getting Real By Mother Raphaela The characters and situations in this series continue to develop: Meg Langslow is maturing from the hysterically funny and therefore slightly hysterical young woman of "Murder with Peacocks" who was fearful of commitment and living as far from her family as possible to being now (a number of years later) the mother of growing twin boys who better understands and appreciates the dynamics of family and parenthood.Andrew's plots have always been well crafted. They are becoming more serious now, literally bringing Meg's family together, with the serious healing that brings to her ever-less-dysfunctional family, As a result, Andrews is settling down to more realistic, less manic plots. Don't get me wrong -- I enjoyed the "laugh a minute" style of the first books in the series, because that's who Meg was at the time, but all of the characters are gradually maturing, perhaps I would even say becoming more believable, and for that reason, what happens to them has also become much more important. We won't mind when Meg's hand gets better and we hear more about her iron-crafting, but this is the book that tells the story of her grandmother's joining the family, and at the same time, the ending seems to be paving the way for showcasing the entire family's creativity. Michael and the boys could not realistically have been center stage in this book: Grandmother Cordelia was a woman seriously frightened for her life, acting the part of an elderly recluse who could not have handled boisterous 4-year-old twins boys.If you take a book like this seriously enough to read it more than once, you realize how much the author has put into it. Andrews is doing a great job juggling an enormous family and cast of characters. She doesn't focus on every person the same way in every book, and that keeps us looking for what will happen next, seeing that she eventually catches up with everyone.I look forward to getting to know grandmother Cordelia better. Michael might well have more focus soon, too -- we're left with that bit of a cliff-hanger: Meg and her grandmother are kindred spirits, and it seems logical that Michael will be drawn to this newly-discovered relation just as he's dawn to his wife. I confess I don't see how the boys can be center stage with that yet, but Andrews is good at bridging the age gap, and I'm not just saying it -- I really am looking forward to seeing what she does with the next book!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Sometimes Less Is More By Zoeeagleeye I've never been impressed with authors who physically beat up their heroines. They usually do it for one of two reasons. Either they want to "prove" that their "girl" is "tough." or at least as tough as any man, or they are looking for the sympathy vote as they make their heroine a victim. For an author who strives to give her heroine as much smarts, strength and opportunities as any male, Donna Andrews has fallen far short of her goals in this book. As for the victim thing, she is outrageously out of date and out of style for the times. Meg Langslow spends the entire book hurt and getting further hurt and the last 30 pages were ruined for me as she does one stupid, inept, duh thing after another.In "The Good, the Bad, and the Emus" Andrews proves once again that she doesn't handle action scenes very smoothly. It's as if she simply cannot imagine the action she is writing about. She takes a competent, strong, smart, imaginative woman and turns her into a total dunce in the last 30 pages.I've read all of Andrews books. They are deliciously unique with memorable characters, lots of fun and plenty of excitement. But when it comes to action they each hold too many characters who fall apart or stand by idly. Michael is one of the most underwritten characters of all -- a temptingly sexy, viral, interesting man who spends all his time standing about or taking care of the kids. Meg talks more to aging P.I. Stanley than she does to her own husband. What is the point of Rose Noire? A rather fascinating character, she is used only to mention a fact or two, or to spell Meg from mother duties. Dad is a little boy who is always running to and from a scene of trauma. Rob seems to have no sense and so does senseless things or nothing at all. The only truly active character in the book is Spike the Dog, and he can be quite irritating. This book even has a do-nothing chief of police for the most part.So, the last 30 pages. Would any sensible 90-year old woman head butt a Valkyrie? Not on your life? Read it and weep in this book. Would a 90-year old woman jump vigorously up and down on a metal cellar door? Nope. Andrews talks about "brittle bones," but apparently in a failure of imagination, she cannot visualize what that means. But Meg is so passive that even a 90-year old shows her up. She comes to on the floor, the killer leaves and what does she do? Try to get up? No. Crawl away? No. She chats with the woman beside her unraveling some of the mystery. Not the time! But wait, it gets even more laughable. There they are, Meg and the old woman, outside in the still night air with perhaps a hundred people close by who could help them. As they both get away temporarily from the killer they both worry about how to raise the alarm. Hello? Have neither of you vocal cords? A sudden scream would raise all hell at that time of night and be heard for miles, let alone just a 100 feet away! And don't tell me the emus knocked down the emu-proof fence, yet again! But of course they did, for we need to have yet another way to batter Meg. The dogs attack the killer who never thinks of shooting them? No, because for the sake of a laugh, if not common sense, we must be given a picture of a large dog sitting on the killer -- something it has done before in another book. Proving once again that Andrews can visualize doing nothing much better than doing something.Andrews also is timid about emotions. Meg suffers through a whole host of them -- and rightly so -- but alas, no release for her or for us as she keeps them hidden inside. We do not see a crucial reunion -- the two go inside the house and shut the door. Again, no emotional release or full-circle moment. Mother shows up, an incidental character who is the high-hand who shuts off the two who are reconciling in private in a very clumsy way. But the biggest reunion falls flat. Grandfather, always a man of many words and damn the consequences comes face to face with a hugely important person from his past and all he can do is dither and squeak, "Morning," "Er . . . likewise," "Um, yes," his entire catalogue of emotional outpouring.And, finally, not to be mean, I love kids, but I do not love Meg's kids. Andrews writes the boys as just another pained trial for Meg, who dips in and out of their lives just as they are either entering or leaving some horrible mischief. They have no manners and act like barbarians. They are always disagreeable and always seem to be competitive with each other in a 'boys will be boys' stereotype as odious as the 'female as victim' stereotype. Josh, upon seeing his mother (did Andrews forget what Meg looks like at this point in the plot?) filthy, bruised and bandaged, has his first words be that Daddy has brought you a doggie bag, can I have your bacon. Really? Can we make these boys a little more human?Even though for me the last 30 pages were a bust, and the emus were explained and detailed far too much, still the book had a very good plot and I would lend it to someone to read, if asked, and smile while doing it.
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