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    Owls Well That Ends Well

    Written by Donna Andrews

    Narrated by Burnadette Dunne

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    Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket. The easiest solution: hold the end-all and be-all of gigantic yard sales.

    But when the event attracts the late Miss Sprocket's money-hungry heirs, the over-enthusiastic supporters of some endangered barn owls, and customers willing to go to any lengths to uncover a hidden treasure, Meg suspects things have gotten a little out of hand. 

    Then an antiques dealer is found stuffed in a trunk with his head bashed in — and the yard sale turns into a day's-long media circus.

    ©2005 Donna Andrews (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781520019154
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    Owls Well That Ends Well
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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
      situational-humor, verbal-humor, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth, women-sleuths, greed ***** As a condition of buying the house and property at a bargain price, Meg and her boyfriend not only are stuck with an endless list of vital repairs but also the sale of all the countless collections of oddities left behind by the previous owner at her death. Bad enough, but all of the stuff has to be watched over and the money gained shared by the former owner's relatives! So a vast yard sale is organized and all of Meg's relatives set up their booths as well. It's crazy enough, but gets infinitely worse when Gordon-You-Thief is discovered dead in a trunk in the barn. Good sleuthing with plenty of lying suspects, plot twists, and red herrings! Lots of fun! Bernadette Dunne continues to be a great narrator.
    • 5/5
      Another great book in the Meg Lanslow series, this being the most recent. I love these books. Though they don't contain any element of the supernatural or paranormal like so many of the other books I read, I've really enjoyed this cozy mystery series.
    • 5/5
      Meg & Michael aren't married but they buy a house, one that has a *lot* of clutter. The books starts with the first day of a huge yard sale, a yard sale that has over 90 families included. Meg thinks most of the stuff is junk but she is willing to sell it to clear it out and to satisfy the family who used to own the house, they want a cut of the proceeds.When a local antique's dealer turns up dead in the barn, the hunt is on to find the killer and there are LOT of suspects. The idea of a yard sale that covers acres and involves dozens of sellers would keep me in another state! Still, there is the usual humor with Meg and the assorted members of her family. Rob is helpful and yet inept, Horace is robbed of his gorilla suit, Meg's parents are both in the thick of things, all the while her Mother is planning on decorating the new house.This is such a fun series, I always have to laugh and really enjoy spending time with Meg and her crazy family and friends. No blacksmithing in this one, it takes place over 2 1/2 days, all tied up with murder and selling junk, excuse me, antiques.
    • 4/5
      This book, (which is not the first in its series), was my first introductions to Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow series, which I absolutely adore. Meg, a skilled blacksmith, comes from a well-meaning, educated and somewhat dysfunctional family where all members meddle in Meg's affairs. She has fallen for a local college professor. They just purchased an aged and dilapidated farmhouse from an old woman's estate which is still filled with the prior owner's belongings. They embark on holding a yard sale to move out some of the clutter but not without the estate's beneficiaries looking for their cut of the action. The organized chaos ensues and then an antique dealer (looking for bargains) winds up dead. This was such a humorous book that I had to read it aloud to our Thursday night knitting circle. It also prompted me to read all the books in the series (but in chronological order). I devour each new addition to the series as it's made available. If you're looking for a book which is humorous and yet suspenseful, this series could be for you.
    • 4/5
      who knew a yard sale could go so wrong?
    • 1/5
      This book had every element of a promising mystery. A unique premise, colorful secondary characters, books, owls, kooky relatives, and a dash of humor. However... The set-back was the main character, our female sleuth, who was not only amateur but immature. At least where it mattered. It doesn't take long for her sarcastic inner dialogue to pass funny and go right into a case of mental whining. Not to mention repetitious. Yes, we figured out by the first third of the book that she Did Not Like Clutter. We know that she doesn't want her mother to help decorate the new house. She complains about being the ' fix-it' person hassled by all, when really it was her dad, brother and boyfriend covering the bases so that she could...ahem, sleuth. Even so, Meg could be written off (so to speak) if not for her thoroughly selfish motive for clearing the murder suspect--to ensure her own boyfriend's tenure. Not for the sake of justice or finding an at large killer? For shame, Meg. Still, the book was worth finishing if only for her family members and their unique pursuits.All in all it was slightly formulaic, containing many of the very same elements and cliches found in other modern mysteries.
    • 3/5
      Cute addition to the series featuring Meg and boyfriend Michael's purchase of an old house and the huge yard sale they have to get rid of the contents - which ends up marred by murder.
    • 4/5
      Meg Langslow has an old victorian mansion, she plans to renovate. However the place is full of junk so they organise a yard sale. The event attracts an awful lot of people. When an obnoxious antiques dealer is found stuffed in a trunk with his head bashed in things turn a bit for the worse, particularly when the prime suspect is the person her boyfriend needs to secure academic tenure and some of the people shopping for bargains don't understand that the shopping can't continue until the cops are finished with the crime scene.Quite funny. A light read that's quite amusing.
    • 4/5
      Before Meg and Michael can move their belongings into the mansion they just bought, they have to clear out decades of acquired stuff the previous owner had. The heirs had no interest in cleaning out the house, but agreed to let the new owners take care of it, if the heirs were given a percentage of the profits that the ever-growing yard sale generated. Well, the yard sale also generated a dead body, found stuffed in a trunk. Meg wants to get this investigation over and done with, so the sale can go on, but when a colleague of Michael’s is the prime suspect, she wants to clear him. Meg’s sleuthing abilities are sorely tested in this mystery romp, and I doubt she will ever want to hold another yard sale! It’s a fun tale, but like the title says, Owls Well etc. Well written and filled with somewhat quirky characters, it’s quite entertaining. Better than a yard sale, for sure!
    • 4/5
      Donna Andrews' Owls Well That Ends Well is a pratfall of a novel. That's not to say that it isn't entertaining - on the contrary, it's very amusing - but the antics of Meg Langslow's suspect pool reached new heights. As part of the buyer's agreement for their new house, Michael and Meg organize a large yard sale to unburden themselves of the previous owner's goods, while generating a small profit for the deceased's family. On the day the 30-family yard sale opens up a local scalawag/antiques dealer is murdered in Meg's barn, and everything goes downhill from there. As a police investigation goes underway on one side, a carnival springs up on Meg and Michael's front lawn, with suspects darting to and fro. In the end it all adds to the charm and chuckles, and the Meg Langslow books continue to be an endearing series.