Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos: A Meg Langslow Mystery
Written by Donna Andrews
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
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Yorktown, Virginia is reliving its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the battle and a craft fair.
Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities—and to sell her wrought-iron flamingos. Meg's also trying to keep her father from scaring too many tourists with his impersonation of an 18th-century physician—not to mention saving her brother from the clutches of a con-man who might steal the computer game he's invented.
It's a tough job—until the swindler is found dead, slain in Meg's booth with one of her wrought-iron creations. Now Meg must add another item to her to-do list: Don't forget to solve the murder!
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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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg is visiting home during the annual reenactment of the battle of Yorktown. She is working in the craft fair, selling her ironwork. Michael is dressing up for reenactment as a French soldier and everyone who is taking part in the craft fair is also required to "dress in period".
The whole set up is funny beyond belief! There are people sneaking peeks at cell phones, a group of people called the "Town Watch" who are handing out fines for not sticking to how life was lived in the 1700's and Michael's mother is in charge of the whole shebang.
When a businessman is found dead in the back of Meg's craft tent she, her father and Michael are all on the hunt for the killer. Meg is afraid they will suspect her but suspicion soon switches to her friend and fellow iron worker Faulk. Now Meg is determined to find the real killer, clear her friend and hopefully make enough money on her ironwork to make the entire week worthwhile.
I'm loving this series and will continue reading until I get caught up. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lots of amusing fun, set during a Civil War fair and involving cosplay, craftspeople, and of course crime. I enjoy this series, especially those with the more geeky settings.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the third book in the Meg Langslow mystery series, and I quite enjoyed it. This one takes place at a combined craft fair/reenactment of the battle of Yorktown. The book is less about the murder mystery and more about the characters. Meg, her boyfriend Michael, his mother, her crazy family, and the vicious little dog Spike are all along for the ride. This cozy mystery is lots of fun! An easy, funny read. Three and a half stars.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5fun light read
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm so glad I discovered this author. These cozy mysteries are quick reads (I usually get through them in a day or two) with just the right amount of mystery and humor. This is the third book in the Meg Lanslow Mystery series, and though not required that you read them in order, the back stories progress nicer if you do.In this story, Meg (an ornamental blacksmith), her boyfriend Michael, her brother Rob, and the rest of the extended family and friends are participating in a craft fair/reenactment of the siege of Yorktown, right down to the Colonial dress and all the period pieces. When a murdered entrepreneur, much hated by many of the locals for varying reasons, winds up dead in Meg's booth, her and her friends become the prime suspects by the town's new deputy (NOT a family member unlike most of the other people in town). Meg will stop at nothing to prove the innocence of her and her friends, even if it means stepping on a few toes along the way, including those of the arrogant deputy himself.I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes the cozy mystery genre. It's nice light reading, the kind you don't want to put down but doesn't strain your brain with all kinds of police procedurals and stuff. :)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not quite as good as the first book in the series but once again the murderer was well-disguised. An improvement on the first book was that the murderer didn't do the clicheed explanation of his actions and motives while holding the heroine hostage.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg Langslow is at it again. The wrought-iron craftswoman is selling her wares at an "historically authentic" craft fair in conjunction with a re-enactment of the Battle of Yorktown. The "authenticity police" are out, citing people right and left for "anachronisms" -- anthing not proper to the historical period. It's no wonder Meg is carefully hiding the wrought-iron pink flamingos (which were made on commission for a local who is feuding with her Neighborhood Association).This is a murder mystery so, of course, someone has to get killed -- and with a most interesting murder weapon. (What hath Meg wrought?) With an army of suspects (most of whom are Meg's friends and relatives, not to mention Meg herself) and a bumbling new deputy (who seems better suited to ticketing double-parking fairgoers than solving a murder), the battle is on the find "the real killer." I found myself giggling and laughing out loud as I read this madcap adventure. In the midst of a very busy, stressful week, it was just what I needed!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American-rev-war, reenactors, family-dynamics, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth, women-sleuths, law-enforcement ***** Of course I loved this book, our family of seven were American Revolutionary War reenactors and we did visit Yorktown and Williamsburg! The good, the bad, and the ridiculous were such a great part of our brand of insanity. Well, except for the murder, which was investigated in a very entertaining way, of course. Great fun read!One small spoiler caught my 2019 attention: a big deal was made of the obnoxious behavior by a MCP long before the present sensitivity.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This third novel of the Meg Lanslow series finds Meg back in Yorktown, VA during an anniversary celebration of the surrender of the British during the Revolutionary War. Along with a reenactment, the town is holding a colonial craft fair, in which Meg is participating, showing off her blacksmith work. Meg certainly has her hands full as she juggles playing referee between her fellow crafters and the organizers of the event, having to dress completely in colonial period clothes, and the banning of anachronisms, anything not pertaining to the Revolutionary period. But the biggest problem comes when Meg discovers a dead body in her ransacked booth. A man that everyone, including Meg, seemed to have a problem with.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg and her friends are participating in a craft fair/reenactment of the battle of Yorktown. Her boyfriend, Michael's, mother is the affair coordinator and has insisted that all vendors and participants dress in period garb. (those needing a costume can rent it from her dress shop) Meg, a decorative blacksmith, is trying to sell her wares but when she stumbles upon a dead body in her stall the first night, she has problems.Since her stall is the crime scene, she can't get back to selling until the police are finished, so she decides to find the murderer and get the police out of her hair.This book was so much fun between the descriptions of the pink wrought iron flamingos made for a friend to the paparazzi caught in the stocks, and the antics of the anachronisms Town Watch laughter abounds. A great addition to this series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ornamental blacksmith Meg Langslow and her boyfriend Michael attend a reenactment of the siege at Yorktown. Michael is taking place in one of the battles, while Meg is selling her wares at the craft fair. But the fighting isn't confined to the battlefield and several people are arguing with entrepreneur Roger Benson, including Meg's brother Rob. When Meg goes to her booth late one night and finds Benson's body, she knows she has to act quickly to clear her brother before he is charged with murder. But will her investigation put not only she but also Michael in danger? "Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingoes" is a great entry in Donna Andrews's humorous cozy mystery series. Andrews takes her time setting up the murder, providing the reader with plenty of suspects. There are lots of laugh out loud moments, including when Meg stumbles across Benson's body. The book is populated with plenty of eccentric characters; especially Meg's many relatives. I liked the whole reenactment background, which is a great setting for much of the humor in the book. In fact, some of the best humor comes when Meg's mother and Michael's mother try to outdo each other in their choice of costumes. The mystery is well plotted and readers will have a hard time guessing who the murderer is. This was a nice humorous read. I recommend the whole series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved the developing relationship between Meg and Michael, the competition between the two mothers, the glimpses into historical reenactment, and the humorous ways all the participants coped with the obstacles they encountered.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A blacksmith tries to impress her boyfriend's mother by organizing a craft fair at a Battle of Yorktown reenactment. What with the constant canon fire, the nosy Anachronism Police and an enthusiastically period medical tent (with Revolutionary War-era surgical tools, including bone saws), Meg's temper was frayed before the murder in her booth.The time that I took to read this was well-spent: the plot and the pace are Sunday-afternoon-worthy. All the details are over the top (who makes wrought-iron flamingos? With pink finish? Who has one period costume for the day, and another ballgown for the evening?) but not totally inaccurate.