Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Swan for the Money
It’s Caerphilly’s first rose show and fraught with more than whose rose will win. It’s that need that prompts sabotage, theft, and murder which Meg Langslow investigates.
It’s Caerphilly’s first rose show and fraught with more than whose rose will win. It’s that need that prompts sabotage, theft, and murder which Meg Langslow investigates.
Bookshop owner Ellery Page and Police Chief Jack Carson are diving for the legendary sunken pirate galleon Blood Red Rose when they discover an old fashioned diver’s suit, water-damaged and encrusted with barnacles — with a 21st century body.
A Christmas parade themed as the “Twelve Days of Christmas”! Only Santa has been murdered just before the parade is to start.
What Meg Langslow thinks is a couple of hours of babysitting, turns into days while his mom has disappeared and the toddler could be at risk. Not only the boy’s mom, but Rob is disappearing and Dad and Dr Blake need bailing out . . . again.
A body in the basement pond? Unexpected “guests” in the pasture? People digging up the yard?
Croquet is a genteel game; eXtreme croquet is a whole other story. Still, no one was expecting homicide until Meg slides into the body of a dead woman.
It’s one break-in after another from the ghostly intruder at Black House to the sneak thief at the Salty Dog with Ellery Page reluctantly pulled in to both crimes.
Feral turkeys and an out-of-control makeover show create havoc on Bland Street while Meg Langslow and the mayor try to round everyone up.
It’s a reunion of old friends getting trapped in Ellery Page’s creaky mansion that sets off a deadly set of memories that leads to an even more deadly game of Clue.
The agents of Department Z are frustrated by the seemingly unconnected acts of sabotage at England’s food depots. That loss could find England’s citizens starving during wartime!