Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Murder with Peacocks
It’s three weddings and a murder that introduces blacksmith Meg Langslow and her whacky family. It’s only the “gay” and gorgeous Michael who keeps Meg sane.
It’s three weddings and a murder that introduces blacksmith Meg Langslow and her whacky family. It’s only the “gay” and gorgeous Michael who keeps Meg sane.
Santa’s Workshop in Nocturne Falls is short-staffed, so Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe detour to the town where someone is breaking in to people’s houses. Worried that this will ruin Christmas, Jayne decides to do everything in her power to put an end to the problem.
A royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas where trouble finds them. Now Sinclair’s entire family is gambling on him and Jayne figuring out what’s gone dangerously wrong with the cool new magic trick at the end of his parents’ show.
This intrigue-filled Christmas mystery takes readers home to Caerphilly to join in Meg’s family’s holiday celebration—including, of course, another baffling mystery.
Two corpses at two different house showings — and all that math! — discourages Aurora “Roe” Teagarden about becoming a real estate agent. It’s obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who knows a great deal about real estate — and maybe too much about Roe.
Someone is making Sinclair out to be the bad guy what with the sabotage and his being a necromancer. The question is, can Jayne, Winter elf, Jack Frost’s daughter, Santa Claus’s niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now . . . private investigator, chill the rumors that threaten the royal family and keep Sinclair from being permanently iced?
After attending three weddings in less than a year, including her ex-boyfriend’s, Aurora Teagarden feels stuck in a rut. Then Jane Engle, an elderly member of the recently disbanded Real Murders club, dies and unexpectedly leaves her house and considerable estate to Roe But Roe soon realizes that her inheritance includes a tangled mystery in need of unravelling.
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, becomes involved at the center of a murderous story of her own, as members of her book club are targeted in a series of copycat murders.
Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse, shaved after death, in the bath, naked but for a pair of gold pince-nez.
Ellery Page is in hot water again as Police Chief Carson’s first-and-only-suspect.! Famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. And Ellery and Brandon have history.