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    Lord of the Wings
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    Lord of the Wings

    Written by Donna Andrews

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

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    About this audiobook

    It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. 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. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781681411279
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    Lord of the Wings
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    Donna Andrews

    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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    • 5/5
      cozy-mystery, family-dynamics, fanatics, law-enforcement, murder-investigation, museum What could possibly go wrong with a community celebration of Halloween in Caerphilly? Well, a murder or two and break ins at the zoo and the Haunted House/museum for starters, including the thieving ravens Grandfather thinks to train. As usual, Meg is in the middle of things and expected to solve all problems. Excellent read whether you've read others or not!
    • 4/5
      Yet another delightful adventure in the busy life of blacksmith and amateur sleuth, Meg Langslow. This time, she's heading up the all-volunteer Goblin Patrol for Caerphilly's Halloween Festival. Sure enough, mischief is afoot and a dead body is found near her grandfather's zoo. Is this somehow related to the secret scavenger hunt which is messing with folks' Halloween decorations and spirit all over town? Perhaps or just maybe there's something even more sinister afoot.Synopsis (from front flap of book's cover):The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth 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.It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia into Spooky City, USA. 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.When a suspicious fire burns the Haunted House and a body is found, Meg Langslow surrenders her home as a safer party venue. But all too soon a real body mars the town's creepy fun, and it's up to Meg to save Halloween.
    • 4/5
      Not my usual reading, it was suggested for the book club this month. Not a bad mystery and a good writer. What I would probably call a cozy mystery. Not gruesome and no foul language.
    • 5/5
      It is Halloween time in the wacky Virgina town of Caerphilly and they are holding their first ever week long Halloween festival. This time, though, Meg Langslow is not in charge. Mayor Randall Shiffley hired Lydia Van Meter to handle it only she's botching it big time and driving Meg nuts with asking her opinion and doing the opposite or making her come down to her office to talk about something she needs to deal with that Meg already knows about and was on her way to handling. Meg is in charge of the Visitor's Relation Police Liason Patrol or better known as the Goblin Patrol. They handle problems on the ground downtown, at the Haunted House and Fairgrounds, and at the Zoo.Things begin to go wrong from the start when Dr. Smoot the former coroner who is the resident guy who dresses as a vampire year round. His house is an old Victorian and he has opened a Caerphilly museum in the basement. His house is where the Haunted House is located at. He calls saying people have broken into it the night before but have taken nothing as far as he can tell. Then at the zoo, that day Meg's grandfather, the zoo's owner, finds a severed hand that proves to be fake and inside the dark alligator section a severed foot, also fake, is found by Meg and Michael's twin boys' first-grade class who are touring the zoo that day.The culprit who put the foot there is caught and confesses something about an "adventure" and a"quest" and has on him a list of five things to do which leaves them to believe that some sort of scavenger hunt is going on. But the young man isn't saying much more only that he now won't be able to advance to the next level, so there are more pranks to be played and Sherrif Burke says he has reported some odd things going on in town.These scavenger hunters are causing havoc and worse. A body is found shot in the woods and discovered to be a conman. Is he the man behind the games, and if so who's running the games now? The Chief is welcoming Meg's help on this one since his office is spread thin due to the festival and none of it makes much sense. Andrews delivers on another funny mystery that's a real treat.
    • 4/5
      Another fun entry in the long-running Meg Langslow series. It is late October, and Caerphilly is having its first annual Halloween festival. For once, Meg doesn't have to organize the whole thing, because the mayor has hired an event coordinator. Only she's not working out all that well....A twisted scavenger hunt, role-playing vampires, and Dr. Smoot's odd town museum keep things hopping. Then someone follows up the scavengers' fake body parts with a real body. Eeeek!This is probably not the best place to start this series, since a lot of the fun is revisiting old friends and old haunts. But it's definitely worth reading.
    • 4/5
      Meg Langslow is back with all of her unconventional family and friends in this Halloween mystery. This series is always fun to read and Lord of the Wings is a great addition. The town has hired someone to organize the first Halloween week festival, only she isn't working out very well. So Meg is busy once again, pitching in to help keep things running smoothly. But then a body is discovered on the edge of the festival, the museum has break-ins, and the town is filled with vampire clans. Why would anyone be killed? If you're in the mood for a good mystery, wrapped in a humorous package, this book is for you.
    • 5/5
      I've loved the Meg Langslow mysteries since I first checked out Murder With Peacocks, and Lord of the Wings is no exception.It's about time that Ms. Andrews involved the Langslow-Waterston household with Halloween, my favorite holiday. Caerphilly (pronounced 'Care-FILLY') is having a festival and Meg is not having to organize it. Lydia Van Meter, special assistant to Mayor Randall Shiffley, is getting paid to do what Meg did for free. Is the town getting its money's worth? (Feel free to snicker knowingly.)Although trouble-shooting for the festival is Lydia's job, she has no problem involving Meg. Worse, she's a Mistress of Misdirected or Incomplete Information. Before chapter three it's obvious that Lydia would be an understandable candidate for murder, or at least having her ankles savaged by Spike, the Waterstons' dog (aptly nicknamed 'the Small Evil One').Meg and her beloved Michael's twin sons, Josh and Jamie, are six years old and first graders. (Why am I remembering that Calvin of 'Calvin and Hobbes' fame is also a first grader? *whistles with unconvincing innocence*) Their class is being taken to see the new attraction at the Caerphilly Zoo. There was already a report of a problem with the haunted house attraction. Now the zoo is a target.There are plenty of fun descriptions of decorations, activities, tourists, and locals to keep the reader chuckling if not laughing aloud. Mrs. Paltroon of the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter is one of the residents who aptly deserves what happens to her. (Oddly enough, no one seems to have joked that her name is one vowel away from an old term for a coward.) Messrs. Griswald
    • 4/5
      I've been saving this one to read for Halloween, and I cracked it open Saturday hoping it would get me in a Halloween frame of mind (harder to do when it's springtime). It worked - the whole book is soaked in halloween fun as Caerphilly is putting on a Halloween festival that's really two festivals in one: a "day side" for family friendly events and a "night side" when the older people come out to celebrate the slightly scarier side of the holiday. This has Meg doing quite a bit of running around town as the head of the volunteer security force, the "goblin patrol". Ms. Andrews attention to detail is really quite stunning; I would travel to a festival as well thought out and planned as this one was, but I'll admit this book wasn't the best in the series. I still thoroughly enjoyed every page (because the characters are brilliant), but the mystery itself didn't have a lot of my attention (although I love the scavenger hunt premise). All of the book titles have so far tied directly to a bird that features prominently in the story; this one is probably the weakest linked book: the ravens have very little page time and don't get to play any significant role in the book, although I sorta kinda want to train a neighborhood raven to say "Nevermore". "Die Like an Eagle" is the next book - the title alone makes me giggle, and I'm looking forward to its release.
    • 5/5
      Caerphilly takes on Halloween and this time the seeming tireless Meg is not in charge. The mayor has actually hired someone to do the job of organizing that Meg has done has a volunteer at Christmas and other occasions. Meg is not too happy as the new hire expects Meg to be at her beck and call. She is is in charge of the "Goblin Patrol" to try to keep a relative peace in the town and its environs, which includes the former coroner, Dr. Smoot (in full vampire status) and his haunted house and museum. Meanwhile the twins demand a different costume for each day of the Halloween celebration and late in the week Michael is injured. There is a game a foot which is unknown or even her brother and his game friends join in the hunt for these adventurer who seem to be responsible for two deaths and a serious injury to the Vampire Smoot. Great fun, as usual and thanks to Ms. Andrews for telling us how to pronounce Caerphilly.