Meg’s mother, and the bride’s mother, are driving everyone crazy making the events leading up to the ceremony more and more elaborate. In “’Peacocks,” Meg’s brother Rob is getting married. This adds to the general confusion and sometimes increases the number of suspects. In almost every one, and there are now 31 of them, the Langslows are having some kind of family event-Christmas, family reunion, etc. Andrews has a pleasing pattern in these novels. Meg, our heroine, is a blacksmith/iron artist married to a professor of theatre in the local university. This title, a “Casablanca” allusion, is OK, but not my favorite. Among my favorites are “We’ll Always Have Parrots,” “The Lord of the Wings,” and “The Falcon Always Wings Twice.” No one can resist the amusing titles, all fowl-oriented. It also can refer to a white cheese made there.) (Caerphilly is a town in Wales the name means the fort of Ffili. These cozies, set in the Shenandoah Valley in fictional Caerphilly, Virginia are a gentle delight. With Lord of the Wings, readers can look forward to another zany Meg Langslow mystery-this one filled with Halloween spirit and suspense.For a number of years I have been a fan of the Meg Langslow mysteries by Donna Andrews. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery. She introduced Meg to readers in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. Like Meg Langslow, the blacksmith heroine of her series, Donna Andrews was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new 'Creatures of the Night' exhibit in the zoo. It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia into Spooky City, USA. The eighteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world. The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad, and The Emus.

Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews