Donna Andrews. (2019). Owl Be Home for Christmas: Meg Langslow Mysteries Series, Book 26. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Donna Andrews. 2019. Owl Be Home for Christmas: Meg Langslow Mysteries Series, Book 26. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Donna Andrews, Owl Be Home for Christmas: Meg Langslow Mysteries Series, Book 26. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

Donna Andrews. Owl Be Home for Christmas: Meg Langslow Mysteries Series, Book 26. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

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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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New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail).
The 26th book and the sixth Christmas mystery in the Meg Lansglow series, Owl Be Home for Christmas is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews.
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia—invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting ornithologists is murdered. Even if Caerphilly is able to clear the roads in time, Chief Burke doesn't want the various suspects to scatter to half a dozen continents before he identifies the killer, so there's a very real possibility that none of them will make it home for Christmas . . . at least not unless Meg comes to the rescue.
Full of intrigue and snow, this Christmas mystery will take readers home to Caerphilly for Christmas.

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     "Exceptional....[with] plenty of twists and turns en route to the satisfying ending. As always, spending time with Meg and her wonderful family is a delight. Andrews reinforces her place at the top of the cozy subgenre."

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   • source: Publishers Weekly on How the Finch Stole Christmas!
   • content: "Andrews manages her large cast with dexterity and drops clues to the culprits' identity, but the ending will catch most readers by surprise."
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   • source: Booklist on How the Finch Stole Christmas!
   • content: "[A] satisfying, humorous entry in the long-running series."
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   • source: New York Journal of Books on Nightingale Before Christmas
   • content: "Intrigue...amusement...Andrews reliably delivers. She also manages to slip in profundities and sentiments that warm the heart."
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   • source: Booklist on Duck the Halls
   • content: "Meg, as well as her quirky extended family, makes this humorous cozy a holiday treat."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Duck the Halls
   • content: "Andrews leavens the action with her trademark humor, including dueling Christmas dinners and an extravagant--and extravagantly funny--live nativity scene."
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   • source: Richmond Times-Dispatch on Six Geese A-Slaying
   • content: "Produces at least one chuckle--and sometimes a guffaw--per page. Joy to the world, indeed."
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   • source: The Columbia, SC State on Six Geese A-Slaying
   • content: "Andrews . . . scores points for her witty writing and abundance of Yuletide tinsel and tradition."
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     May 1, 2019
     

     Meg's family is gathered at the Caerphilly Inn for her grandfather's scientific conference on owls, but it's right before Christmas, which surely means a guest-stranding blizzard. And that surely means there will be a murder.

     Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      August 15, 2019
      A freak storm buries Caerphilly, Virginia, in snow, knocking out all lines of transportation and communication, just in time for the holidays and the annual Owl Fest convention. Meg Langslow (Terns of Endearment, 2019, etc.) has agreed to help her grandfather Dr. J. Montgomery Blake with the logistics for this year's conference. The highlight, or lowlight, is a fierce battle between members of SPOOR, Stop Poisoning Our Owls and Raptors, who want to save the spotted owls threatened with extinction, and the champions of the barred owls who are muscling in on their turf. The leading partisan of the latter camp, Dr. Oliver Frogmore of Oregon's Buckthorn College, is whiny, selfish, and racist, and it's an unmitigated pleasure to watch him drop dead in the middle of a particularly self-serving public speech. Despite the awkwardly continued adulation of his lackey, Dr. Edward Czerny, Frogmore's death spotlights a wide range of old grievances against him, from African American graduate student volunteer Melissa McKendick's tale of her rejection to Buckthorn's program to Dr. Vera Craine's story of the hostility that drove her from Buckthorn to lowly Cornell. But nosing around for clues to the manner and author of Frogmore's death has to compete for Meg's time and energy with such mundane but suddenly urgent questions as what unflappable Caerphilly Inn manager Ekaterina Vorobyaninova should serve the snowbound guests for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Pancha Ganapati. The laughs come more slowly than usual, especially after hateful Frogmore's death, but the payoff is the climactic revelation of an unusually clever and deep-laid motive for this best of all possible murders. One of Andrews' most successful balancing acts between creating a brand-new whodunit and showcasing her zany regulars.

      COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from August 26, 2019
      Bestseller Andrews’s exceptional 26th Meg Langslow mystery (after Terns of Endearment) offers a snowbound version of a locked room mystery. Shortly before Christmas in Caerphilly, Va.
      , a blizzard traps everyone at the Caerphilly Inn, which is hosting Owl Fest 2019, a gathering of ornithologists from the academic community. The attendees are a rowdy bunch, given to an overabundance of owl hooting, arguing, and fistfights. Meg’s grandfather, J. Montgomery Blake, the event’s headliner, does his best to keep them under control with help from Meg and the rest of the extended family. A few guests are particularly obnoxious, and Meg has named argumentative Oliver Frogmore her least favorite by a mile followed by his toady minion, Edward Czerny. When a body turns up, Meg and local law enforcement are faced with a whodunit that takes plenty of twists and turns en route to the satisfying ending. As always, spending time with Meg and her wonderful family is a delight. Andrews reinforces her place at the top of the cozy subgenre. Agent: Ellen Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary.

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      October 1, 2019
      Along with various family members and a gaggle of ornithologists, Meg Lansglow finds herself snowed in at the upscale Caerphilly Inn, where she is running Owl Fest 2019 for her grandfather, Dr. J. Montgomery Blake. When the disruptive, roundly disliked Dr. Oliver Frogmore is poisoned, suspects abound, including practically everyone attending the conference. Meg's cousin Horace, an officer in the Caerphilly, Virginia, police department, leads the investigation into the murder, along with Meg's help. Meg casually questions suspects, inviting confidences from a scientist who was denied tenure, a student who failed to get into Frogmore's college, and several other ornithologists, including Meg's own grandfather. Framed by the upcoming December holidays, owl facts and lore, and the realities of attending a scientific conference and running a high-end hotel, Andrews' latest delivers humor, plot twists, and the familiar cast of eccentric family and friends who encircle the intrepid Meg. An enjoyable holiday entry in the long-running series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail).
The 26th book and the sixth Christmas mystery in the Meg Lansglow series, Owl Be Home for Christmas is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews.
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia—invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting ornithologists is murdered. Even if Caerphilly is able to clear the roads in time, Chief Burke...

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