Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
A body in the basement pond? Unexpected “guests” in the pasture? People digging up the yard?
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!
They say breaking up is hard to do. They’re wrong. Living with the consequences is so much harder, especially when sorrow is a powerful draw to evil in Lizzie’s grief-filled life.
When Lily Bard discovers a murder victim, she’s plunged deeper into the lives of her fellows than she could ever suspect.
Even in a sleepy Arkansas town, the holidays can be murder even with a wedding in the offing. It’s an eight-year-old kidnapping Jack Leeds is investigating, and the trail leads straight to Lily’s hometown. It just might have something to do with the murders . . . and her sister’s widowed fiancé.
It’s 2059 in New York City with scientists who work to expand the limits of technology. And Detective Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son whose pasts reveal men driven to create perfection-playing fast and loose with the laws of nature, the limits of science, and the morals of humanity.