Birder, She Wrote: A Meg Langslow Mystery -- Donna Andrews, Hardcover

Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed.

First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions next door to working farms and then do their best to make life miserable for the farmers. And finally Meg's grandmother, shows up, trailed by a nosy reporter who is writing a feature on her for a genteel Southern ladies' magazine.

Cordelia drafts Meg to accompany her and Deacon Washington of the New Life Baptist Church - and the reporter, alas - in their search for a long-lost African-American cemetery. Unfortunately what they discover is not an ancient cemetery but a fresh corpse. Can Meg protect her grandmother - and Caerphilly - from the reporter who seems to see the worst in everything . . . and help crack the case before the killer finds another victim?

Author: Donna Andrews
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.86w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9781250760241

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2023
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 22

About the Author
DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. Birder, She Wrote is the 33rd book in the Meg Langslow series.