The Good, the Bad, and the Emus
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Donna Andrews. (2014). The Good, the Bad, and the Emus. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Donna Andrews. 2014. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Donna Andrews, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

Donna Andrews. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. She has written over 30 books in the Meg Langslow mystery series.
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Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series.
Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg's picture—she's a dead ringer for Cordelia—and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive away. He convinces Meg to come with him to meet her, but unfortunately, the woman they meet is Cordelia's cousin—Cordelia died several years ago, and the cousin suspects she was murdered by her long-time neighbor.
Stanley and Meg agree to help track down the killer and get justice for Cordelia. Grandfather even has perfect cover—he will come to stage a rescue of the feral emus and ostriches (escaped from an abandoned farm) that infest this town. He dashes off to organize the rescue—which will, of course, involve most of Meg's family and friends in Caerphilly.
But then, the evil neighbor is murdered, and not only Cordelia's cousin but also the entire contingent of emu-rescuers, who have had conflict with the neighbor, are suspects. Only Meg and the cousin—who seems to share a lot of telling traits with Meg—can find the real killer and clear the air in The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, the newest beverage-spittingly funny installment in this uproarious series from the one-and-only Donna Andrews.

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     "If you long for more fun mysteries, a la Janet Evanovich, you'll love Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow series."

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   • content: "A long-running series that gets better all the time. A fine blend of academic satire, screwball comedy, and murder."
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   • content: "Six Geese A-Slaying produces at least one chuckle--and sometimes a guffaw--per page. Joy to the world, indeed."
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     May 26, 2014
     A family riddle preoccupies Meg Langslow in Andrews’s sprightly 17th mystery featuring the Caerphilly, Va., amateur sleuth (after 2013 Duck the Halls). Meg, whose father was adopted, never met her biological grandmother. Now she has learned that grandma lived in the nearby town of Riverton, but recently died in a suspicious accident that could have been murder. Meanwhile, countless feral emus are also on the loose in Riverton, having been abandoned by the hippie who unsuccessfully tried to farm them. Meg and her extended family decide to tackle both problems at once, but another local death and a surprising twist in the family tree complicate their efforts. Hints of nonagenarian romance taking root add a little spice to the comical avian setup. 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. Agent: Ellen Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

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     July 1, 2014
     Meg Langslow is looking forward to a summer of blacksmithing while her niece watches her young twin sons. Then she learns her grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired a private investigator, Stanley Denton, to find her grandmother, Cordelia, with whom he lost touch years ago. Denton locates Cordelia in Riverton, Virginia, but learns she has recently died, murdered by their neighbor Theo Weaver, or so says Cordelia's cousin, the reclusive Annabel. Annabel promises to share family history with Meg if Meg and Stanley investigate Cordelia's death, which the police claim was an accident. Complicating matters, zoologist Dr. Blake, Meg, her many relatives, and a host of volunteers descend on Riverton to round up a group of feral emus that were released when the Biscuit Mountain Ostrich and Emu Ranches went belly up. Meg gets close to the crusty Annabel while looking into the murder and trying to keep order at Camp Emu. Humor, multiple quirky characters, and the engaging Meg's first-person narration distinguish this series, although one of the plot twists is readily apparent in this installment.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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Life will never be the same for Meg Langslow after family secrets are revealed, introducing a whole new layer of intrigue in Donna Andrews's beloved series.
Meg's long-lost paternal grandfather, Dr. Blake, has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Dr. Blake was reunited with his family when he saw Meg's picture—she's a dead ringer for Cordelia—and now Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town less than an hour's drive away. He convinces Meg to come with him to meet her, but unfortunately, the woman they meet is Cordelia's cousin—Cordelia died several years ago, and the cousin suspects she was murdered by her long-time neighbor.
Stanley and Meg agree to help track down the killer and get justice for Cordelia. Grandfather even has perfect cover—he will come to stage a rescue of the feral emus and ostriches (escaped from an abandoned farm) that infest this town. He dashes off to organize the...

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