Reviewed By: Tuggy Curan - RAM
Murder With Peacocks
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Donna Andrews
Class/Genre: Mystery Amateur Sleuth Woman Main Character
Series: Meg Lanslow # 1
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews is one of the funniest mystery novels I have ever read. I
giggled the entire way through it.
Our heroine, Meg Langslow, leaves her work as a ironsmith, and returns to her southern home town for the summer to help organize three weddings. She is the maid of honour for her mother, her best friend, and her brother's fiance, and all the work for the weddings falls on her shoulders. These three brides are very demanding...the very definition of brides from hell.
There is a very nice romantic interest for Meg, but she overlooks him as a possible mate while they spend the summer becoming very good friends, and investigating a murder.
Yes, while Meg is busy organizing weddings a body is found, and Meg feels compelled to find the murderer. It's not her profession, but she is incurably nosy, and has to know the solution to the mystery. She does, at last, but it's a long and convoluted road to the solution.
The brides interfere continually...one wants live peacocks on the lawn and all three of them are constantly changing their minds and making more work for Meg.
The strength of this book is in the characters. Meg's family is...how do I put this nicely...nuts! But they are also well meaning, and incredibly funny.
Do the weddings all take place? Nope...only one of them does. What happens to the other two weddings is all part of the mystery plot.
If you want something breezy and easy to read, pick up Murder with Peacocks. Murder with Peacocks is the first book in a new series, and I'm eagerly awaiting Meg's next adventure.
Tuggy Curan - RAM
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