Author: Donna Andrews
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
Series: Meg Langslow (Book 10)
Publication: Dreamscape Media LLC (December 5, 2017)
Length: 7 hours and 22 minutes
Description: In Six Geese A-Slaying, Donna Andrews fans delivers another zany Meg Langslow mystery---this one filled with outrageous Christmas spirit…and mayhem.
Meg and Michael's house is serving as the marshaling point for the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The theme is "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and it features twelve drummers from the school marching band, eleven bagpipers, ten leaping lords costumed in medieval finery from the college drama department, etc. There are also assorted Christmas-themed floats, a live nativity scene on a flatbed truck, the Three Wise Men on Caerphilly zoo camels, and Santa Claus in a bright red horse-drawn sleigh (eight reindeer were beyond the zoo's scope).
Meg has been volunteered to organize the parade, which is to proceed from her house to the local campus, where Santa will take up residence to hear the Christmas wishes of the town's children. Of course, getting all the camels, pipers, leapers, and drummers in order is proving every bit as difficult as Meg feared it would be. Then her nephew Eric, wide-eyed and ashen-faced, whispers, "Meg, something's wrong with Santa."
The local curmudgeon, whose beard and belly made him a natural for the role, has been murdered. Now Meg and Chief Burke, who is playing one of the wise men, are faced with the two-fold mission of solving the murder and saving Christmas!
My Thoughts: It's Christmas time in Caerphilly and Meg has been put in charge of the annual Christmas parade. The theme is "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and most of the days are easy to assemble, but the "six geese a-laying" is a problem because all 36 members of SPOR are in goose costumes and determined to be in the parade.
And then there is Santa Claus... He's been played by a local curmudgeon for years because he's one of the few that will fit in the little Santa suit. And now, to add to the confusion, someone has killed him by stabbing him in the heart.
Not only does Meg need to find a substitute Santa with only minutes before the parade begins, but she has to find a substitute camel-riding wiseman because the Chief of Police has to bow out to work the murder, and it would be good to solve the murder too.
Investigations shows that Santa was also a blackmailer and eagle-killer which really enlarges the suspect pool. And most of the suspects are taking part in the parade from the SPOR members upset about the eagles to other various blackmail victims.
As usual, things are chaotic and absurd, and it is up to Meg to control the chaos and save the day but not before she's captured by the villain.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
Nice reading!
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