Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
Meg Langslow: Book #4
- By: Donna Andrews
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Description
The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews. Aficionados of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos will revel in Andrews's trademark dry humor, offbeat characters, and disastrous events unfolding at another classic American setting. And we get to peek in on fresh developments in Meg’s romance with her college professor beau Michael, her intrepid partner in detection. Despite the fact that detectives always seem to attract as many murders as they solve, Andrews’s buzzards and loons make for delightful and cozy reading—and a new take on the meaning of bird watcher. Put on your deerstalker cap, get out your magnifying glass, and pull up an overstuffed chair.
“Half Jane Austen, half battery acid.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Meg Langslow Series
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews. Aficionados of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos will revel in Andrews's trademark dry humor, offbeat characters, and disastrous events unfolding at another classic American... Read more »
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We'll Always Have Parrots
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Parrots are flying loose all over a convention hotel, making trouble and imitating everything everyone says. Monkeys are swinging from chandelier to chandelier. Michael is a teacher moonlighting as an actor in the show Porfiria, Queen of the Jungle, and the cast, crew, and their exotic animal colleagues are performing at the hotel. Michael and... Read more »
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The Falcon Always Wings Twice
By: Donna Andrews
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment.
When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to... Read more »
The Gift of the Magpie
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
** An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production. **
New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail).
The 28th audiobook and the seventh Christmas mystery in the Meg Langslow series, The Gift of the... Read more »
Murder Most Fowl
By: Donna Andrews
Length:
Abridged: No
A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in the latest installment from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon Always Wings Twice.
Meg Langslow’s in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house.... Read more »
Six Geese A-Slaying
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow and Michael's house is serving as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is The Twelve Days of Christmas, and it features twelve drummers from the school's marching band, eleven bagpipers, ten leaping lords costumed in medieval finery from the college's drama department, and so on. There are also... Read more »
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The Good, the Bad, and the Emus
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg's paternal grandfather has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town a short drive away. He convinces Meg to come with him to meet her, but unfortunately, the woman they meet is Cordelia's cousin - Cordelia died several years ago, and the cousin suspects she was... Read more »
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The Nightingale Before Christmas
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house - each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour. Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with the organization, and she finds herself surrounded by... Read more »
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The Hen of the Baskervilles
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow is helping organize the Virginia Un-Fair, Caerphilly's entry in the race to replace the old state fair. While patrolling the fairgrounds, Meg runs into her friend Molly. Molly is terrified that she may lose her farm because her idle husband has left her for a rich hobby winemaker and is demanding his half of the land. Meg enlists... Read more »
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Gone Gull
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, which threaten to ruin the newly-opened center's reputation. Is it the work of a rival center? Have the developers who want to build a resort atop Biscuit Mountain found a new... Read more »
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Swan for the Money
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow's eccentric parents have a new hobby: growing roses and entering them in highly competitive shows. Dad's gardening skill and Mother's gift for selecting and arranging the blossoms should make them an unbeatable team?and Meg is relieved they've taken up such a safe, gentle hobby. She even volunteers to help when the Caerphilly Garden... Read more »
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Toucan Keep a Secret
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal locking up after an event and checking on the toucan that Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. After hearing a hammering in the crypt, Meg finds an elderly parishioner lying dead on the floor. Several niches have been chiseled open, several urns knocked out, and amid the spilled ashes is a gold ring... Read more »
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Owls Well That Ends Well
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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No Nest for the Wicket
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiance, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an extreme croquet field - even the legs of cows and sheep are convenient extra wickets. Croquet has become all the rage in Caerphilly...until it appears someone in town has taken the rage a bit too literally.... Read more »
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Some Like it Hawk
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at Caerphilly Days, a festival inspired by the town's sudden notoriety as 'The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail.' The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated - except one. Phineas Throckmorton, town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement... Read more »
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Lord of the Wings
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Murder with Puffins
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, are searching for some romantic alone time. She knows the perfect place for a private getaway: her aunt's cottage on the tiny island of Monhegan. But when a series of events leads to the couple being trapped in the cottage with her entire family, their private getaway vacation slowly turns into a... Read more »
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Lark! The Herald Angels Sing
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
It‚Äôs Christmas time in Caerphilly, and the town is preparing for their live nativity. During rehearsals, Meg discovers a real baby in the manger, with a note attached that says the mother is leaving the baby girl there so that her father can take care of her, and the wording of the note implicates Meg's brother, Rob, as the father. Rob... Read more »
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Terns of Endearment
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him. The passengers’ vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when they wake up to find themselves broken down and in need of repairs. Things get even worse when a crew member... Read more »
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Owl Be Home For Christmas
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia—invited by Grandfather in a rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds,... Read more »
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Duck the Halls
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in the choir loft. The lengthy process of de-skunking the church requires its annual pre-Christmas concert to relocate to Trinity Episcopal, despite the protests of Mr. Vess, an elderly vestryman.... Read more »
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Die Like an Eagle
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg is Team Mom and Michael is coach of their twin sons' youth baseball team, the Caerphilly Eagles. Meg tangles with Biff Brown, the petty, vindictive league head. On opening day, Biff's lookalike brother is found dead in the porta-potty at the ball field. So many people think Biff's scum that it would be easy to blame him, but he has an... Read more »
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The Twelve Jays of Christmas
By: Donna Andrews
Length:
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THE TWELVE JAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Donna Andrews is a forthcoming title from Minotaur Books. Read more »
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The Real Macaw
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
During an early-morning feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals-cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and a stunningly foul-mouthed macaw. She soon learns that financial woes have caused the local animal shelter to repeal its... Read more »
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Cockatiels at Seven
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When her old friend Karen drops by with her two-year-old son, Meg Langslow reluctantly agrees to babysit. But when night falls, the toddler is still in residence, and Karen isn't answering her phone. Concerned, Meg spends the next morning retracing her friend's steps-and what she discovers makes her begin to suspect that Karen has either been... Read more »
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Stork Raving Mad
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow is pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind having a houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, who has agreed to come to town for the production. Surely they can spare some room for such an important academic cause? Senor Mendoza turns out to... Read more »
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Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Murder with Peacocks
By: Donna Andrews
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. In her small Virginia hometown, she's the maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones‚Äîeach of whom has dumped the planning in her hands. One bride is set on including a Native American herbal purification ceremony while another wants live peacocks on the lawn. Only help from the town's... Read more »
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