Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy predicts dire happenings. His predictions are nowhere near dire enough.
His plans thwarted, a university scrooge returns home on Christmas Day to find a murdered librarian.
It’s shaping up to be a dramatic weaponsmithing reality show when Meg is forced into competition up against several blacksmiths who think women have no place in the profession. Keep in mind that these people wield large hammers and make swords and have forges full of fire at their disposal.
It’s murder when a long lost graveyard is freshly used and the investigation delves deep into bees, NIMBYs, and blackmail.
An ill-timed frantic end to a software project finds Meg and Michael with yet more guests just before Christmas. Their rude and incompetent boss doesn’t make life any easier for anyone . . . until he’s found dead.
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Round Up the Usual Peacocksby Donna Andrews amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Minotaur Books on August 2, 2022 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Real Macaw, Some Like It Hawk, The Hen of the Baskervilles, Duck the Halls, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, Lord of the Wings, The Nightingale Before Christmas, Die Like an Eagle, Gone Gull, How the Finch Stole Christmas!, Toucan Keep a Secret, Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, The Falcon Always Wings Twice, The Gift of the Magpie, The Twelve Jays of Christmas, Murder with Peacocks, Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, We’ll Always Have Parrots, Owls Well That Ends Well, Terns of Endearment, Between a Flock and a Hard Place, No Nest for the Wicket, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much, Cockatiels at Seven, Six Geese A-Slaying, Stork Raving Mad, Owl Be […]
To enable Michael to direct a production of Macbeth, the actors are encamped all over the Langslow-Waterston farm with a revolving group of medieval re-enactors camping nearby. It’s that documentary filmmaker, however, who makes everything worse.
A wonderfully merry and LYAO Christmas mystery during a meeting of scientific minds in an ornithology conference that Meg’s grandfather has planned — and that Meg Langslow keeps organized, especially when there’s murder.
Ellery Page, Pirate’s Cove’s mystery bookstore owner, discovers a vintage diving bag full of antique gold coins in a closet at the Crow’s Nest. A discovery that sets off dangerous events, including murder.
Meg’s expecting twins — any minute! — and doesn’t hesitate to agree to yet another houseguest. After all the drama department is already camping out, rehearsing Soto’s play.
Then two prunes from the English department decide to cancel the play! It’ll be murder and even less peace in the house unless Meg helps solve it.