Donna Andrews, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-18191-1
In a detour from her first three outings featuring the delightful Meg Langslow (Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos, etc.), Andrews pulls her quirky new sleuth, Turing Hopper, from cyberspace. Turing, named for AI pioneer Alan Turing, is an AIP
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-07855-1
In Agatha-winner Andrews’s charming 20th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2015’s Lord of the Wings), tenacious Meg must tangle with the dictatorial Summerball Youth Baseball League president and town contractor, Biff Brown. As special assistant to the...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-04958-2
In Andrews’s endearing 19th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2014’s The Nightingale Before Christmas), the residents of Caerphilly, Va., go all out to celebrate Halloween by turning their little town into Spooky City. When a man who was playing pranks,...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00950-0
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...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-02877-8
The residents of Caerphilly, Va., must struggle to maintain their Christmas cheer in Andrews’s lighthearted 16th Meg Langslow mystery (after The Hen of the Baskervilles). Pranksters are creating some not-so-merry problems for police chief Henry...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00751-3
At the outset of Andrews’s diverting 15th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2012’s Some Like It Hawk), Meg, the deputy director of a fair in Caerphilly, Va., looks into the disappearance of two rare bantam Russian Orloffs from the fair grounds. Meanwhile,
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00750-6
The future of Caerphilly, Va., is at stake in Agatha-winner Andrews’s warm, charming 14th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2011’s The Real Macaw). While the town hosts the Caerphilly Days festival for the summer tourists, under the surface the locals...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-62120-9
At the outset of Andrews's crowd-pleasing 13th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2010's Stork Raving Mad), Meg, new mother of twin boys, awakes early one morning to find her living room filled with animals, including a bright blue macaw, who cries, "Hiya,
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Donna Andrews, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-27732-1
British author Judith Cutler's second police procedural, Staying Power: A Kate Power Mystery, falls short of her promising debut, Power on Her Own (2003). The early revelation of the identity of the perpetrator behind various crimes, including a...
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Donna Andrews, Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-62119-3
In Agatha-winner Andrews's wacky 12th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2009's Swan for the Money), chaos erupts in the crowded household of expectant parents-to-be Meg Langslow and her husband, Caerphilly College associate professor Michael Waterston....
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Donna Andrews, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-37717-5
A rose show can drive a person to murder, as shown in Andrews's thorn-in-cheek 11th Meg Langslow mystery set in Caerphilly, Va. (after 2008's Six Geese A-Slaying
). Meg's parents would love to snag the Winkleson Trophy for the darkest
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-53610-7
Bah, humbug! In the 10th entry in Andrews's fine-feathered cozy series (Cockatiels at Seven
, etc.), Meg Langslow is having a tough enough time trying to organize the Christmas parade, with its Twelve Days of Christmas theme, in Caerphilly, Va.
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-312-37715-1
Snakes alive! Newlywed amateur sleuth Meg Langslow finds a creepy crawler at every turn in Andrews’s charming ninth mystery (after 2007’s The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
) as Dad and Grandpa stock her Caerphilly, Va., farm with what they...
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-32942-6
In Agatha-winner Andrews's deliciously daffy eighth Meg Langslow mystery (after 2006's No Nest for the Wicket
), blacksmith Meg and her fiancé, Michael, are at last moving into their new house in Caerphilly, Va., assisted (and...
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-312-32940-2
An all-too-competitive game of "eXtreme croquet" set in an obstacle-ridden cow and sheep pasture in Caerphilly, Va., leads to murder in Agatha-winner Andrews's goofy seventh Meg Langslow mystery (after 2005's Owls Well That Ends...
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Donna Andrews, Author . Berkeley Prime Crime $23.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-425-20569-3
In the quirky, engrossing fourth "techno-cozy" from Agatha Award–winner Andrews (after 2004's Access Denied
), Alexandria, Va., PI Tim Pincoski and his buddy, Turing—an Artificial Intelligence Personality—are hired by...
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Donna Andrews, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-425-19838-4
Expert plotting and a highly original heroine lift Andrews's third entry in her Agatha Award–winning series starring an almost-sentient computer (after 2003's Click Here for Murder
). "Artificial Intelligence Personality"...
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Donna Andrews, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-18856-9
In Andrews's second exciting computer-as-sleuth mystery (after 2002's You've Got Murder), "Artificial Intelligence Personality" Hopper Turing draws on all her cyber skills to help investigate the murder of a gifted computer...
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-27731-4
In Agatha and Anthony-winner Andrews's fourth wacky bird-themed mystery (Murder with Peacocks, etc.), Meg Langslow, a temporary switchboard operator at her brother Rob's computer-game company, Mutant Wizards, must find the real killer when...
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Donna Andrews, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-27729-1
What a lighthearted gem of a juggling act! In Anthony and Agatha award–winner Andrews's third bird adventure (Murder with Peacocks; Murder with Puffins), ornamental blacksmith Meg, who's been commissioned to make a dozen life-size day-
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Donna Andrews, read by Bernadette Dunne. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.25 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-68141-124-8
Newcomers to Andrews’s wacky little burg of Caerphilly, Va., may feel a bit overwhelmed by this comedy/mystery’s large cast (most of whom have appeared in 18 previous series entries). Fortunately, reader Dunne provides assistance in distinguishing,...
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Donna Andrews, read by Bernadette Dunne. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-1718-1
Reader Dunne uses what may be a perfect mom voice for Meg, the amateur sleuth at the center of the Meg Langslow cozy mystery series. It’s a voice that’s comforting, good-natured, and sensible, attributes Andrews has written into her seemingly...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-07856-8
In Agatha-winner Andrews’s enjoyable 21st Meg Langslow mystery (after 2016’s Die like an Eagle), a vandal is plaguing the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, with such acts as strewing lingerie around a classroom and damaging artworks. Meg’s spirited,...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-11545-4
Agatha-winner Andrews’s pleasing 22nd Meg Langslow mystery (after Gone Gull) finds Meg serving as the assistant director of her husband Michael’s staging of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for the Caerphilly, Va., winter festival. Michael has brought in
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-11547-8
Agatha-winner Andrews’s lively 23rd Meg Langslow mystery (after 2017’s How the Finch Stole Christmas) finds ornamental blacksmith Meg occupied with administrative duties at Trinity Episcopal Church in Caerphilly, Va., while her friend the rector,...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-19294-3
Andrews’s entertaining 24th Meg Langslow mystery (after Toucan Keep a Secret) finds Meg regretting her decision to direct the annual Christmas pageant at Trinity Episcopal Church in the picturesque town of Caerphilly, Va., especially after a baby...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-19297-4
Bestseller Andrews’s winning 25th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2018’s Lark! The Herald Angels Sing) takes ornamental blacksmith Meg Langslow and her extended family on a cruise to Bermuda. Aboard the Pastime Wanderer, Meg meets romance author Kate...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-30531-2
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...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-19300-1
Bestseller Andrews’s charming 27th mystery featuring level-headed Meg Langslow (after 2019’s Owl Be Home for Christmas) finds Meg’s grandmother, Cordelia Mason, hosting the Riverton, Va., Renaissance Faire at her Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, where
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-76012-8
The Christmas spirit suffuses bestseller Andrews’s atmospheric 28th Meg Langslow mystery (after The Falcon Always Rings Twice). During the holiday season, Meg is the project manager for Helping Hands, “a sort of Make-A-Wish program for grownups,” in
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-76016-6
Bestseller Andrews’s quirky 29th Meg Langslow mystery (after 2020’s The Gift of the Magpie) finds Meg’s husband, professor Michael Waterston, directing a production of Macbeth for the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. The rehearsals are being held on...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-76018-0
Agatha Award–winner Andrews’s fast-moving, high-spirited 30th Meg Langslow mystery (after Murder Most Fowl) finds witty Meg preparing to host her large extended family at her home in Caerphilly, Va., for the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, she’s...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-76020-3
Bestseller Andrews’s enjoyable 31st Meg Langslow mystery (after 2021’s The Twelve Jays of Christmas) finds blacksmith Meg, a bridesmaid at her brother Rob’s upcoming wedding, tasked with, among many other things, obtaining nonmolting peacocks to...
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Donna Andrews. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-76022-7
A cold and snowy Christmas season is in full swing in Agatha Award winner Andrews’s lively 32nd Meg Langslow mystery (after Round Up the Usual Peacocks), with every corner of Meg’s large Victorian house in Caerphilly, Va., festooned with evergreen...
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