Poor Meg Langslow. She's blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She's a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg's road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair.

There are Michael's and Meg's doting but demanding mothers, for a start. And then there's the fruitless hunt for a place big enough for the couple to live together. And a succession of crises brought on by the well-meaning but utterly wacky demands of her friends and family. Demands that Meg has a hard time refusing---which is why she's tending the switchboard of Mutant Wizards, where her brother's computer games are created, and handling all the office management problems that no one else bothers with. For companionship, besides a crew of eccentric techies, she has a buzzard with one wing---who she must feed frozen mice thawed in the office microwave---and Michael's mother's nightmare dog. Not to mention the psychotherapists who refuse to give up their lease on half of the office space, and whose conflicting therapies cause continuing dissension. This is not what Meg had in mind when she agreed to help her brother move his staff to new offices.

In fact, the atmosphere is so consistently loony that the office mail cart makes several passes through the reception room, with the office practical joker lying on top of it pretending to be dead, before Meg realizes that he's become the victim of someone who wasn't joking at all. He's been murdered for real.

Donna Andrews's debut book, Murder with Peacocks, won the St. Martin's Malice Domestic best first novel contest and reaped a harvest of other honors as well. This is the fourth book in the Meg Langslow series, which features the intrepid Meg and her cast of oddball relatives. Their capers are a lighthearted joy to read.

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Ordered via BWB for a birthday kid :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

All the best wishes from Germany to yorkshire-lass.

Thank you for sending me this wishlist book for my birthday, it made my day extra special :-)

A fun, quick and easy read, just what you need sometimes.

Being left on the NNS table to fulfil a wish :-)

Thank you very much for this wishlist book! I've really enjoyed the ones I've read from this series.

Book 4 of the amusing whodunnit series. Meg is injured so since she can't blacksmith she's helping out in her brother's company, where his game 'Lawyers from Hell' has taken off. Of course as soon as she arrives the office prankster is murdered and the police look set to point the finger at her brother, so Meg will have to solve it herself.

Sent as a prize in the Export an Animal sweepstake. I hope the winner enjoys this as much as I did! :)

And here it is! What a well read book! And what's more important, all of you have enjoyed it!
Of course birds and insects count... and this is a mystery of a series still to discover by me...
Thank you, Greenbadger, you have been brilliant! :)

Sent to the winner of the INTL RABCK SWEEPSTAKES... I think this is something you might like reading.
Congrats on winning, and enjoy! :)

Lovely to get home from work and find a book waiting for me! This looks like a fun read. Thank you. :-)

This provided some good light relief. What a bonkers life Meg seems to lead! Thanks for sharing this one.

And off it goes to the winner of the tea and mystery sweeps. Happy reading!

I am the decoy!

Thank you very much for the book and the Scottish Breakfast Tea.

I will take this to the Bookcrossing meetup at Allsop Arms today. If no one wants the book I will wild release it.

Found this book on a bench in Regent's Park, London, and I'm taking it with me to Ireland. Can't wait to read it and then send it forward!

On the bench in Prague! I'm going to read it in the train and then pass it on... :)