Audiobook Review: Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews

Lord of the Wings
Author: Donna Andrews
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
Series: Meg Langslow (Book 19)
Publication: Dreamscape Media (August 4, 2015)
Length: 9 hours and 18 minutes

Description: A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad, and The Emus.

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The eighteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world.

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new "Creatures of the Night" exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

Like Meg Langslow, the blacksmith heroine of her series, Donna Andrews was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. She introduced Meg to readers in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery.

With Lord of the Wings, readers can look forward to another zany Meg Langslow mystery--this one filled with Halloween spirit and suspense.

My Thoughts: It is Halloween in Caerphilly, Virginia, and for once Meg isn't in charge of organizing the town's Halloween festivities. However, the new person hired for the job by Mayor Randall Shiffley isn't up to the job but is determined to do the opposite of what Meg would do. 

Meg is in charge of the civilian Goblin Patrol who are assigned to keep order and help out during the festival week. However, she also wants to be involved in her six-year-old twins Halloween activities which include costume design and field trip supervision. When the first graders visit Meg's grandfather's Creatures of the Night exhibition at his zoo, all are surprised to find a human foot in the alligators' enclosure. But it is a plastic foot and just one of a number of pranks that are being played around town.

When a real body is discovered outside the zoo, Meg gets involved along with her brother Rob's computer games company to track down the person behind all the pranks and the murder too. Then there is a fire at Doctor Smoot's Haunted House which leaves another dead body and a seriously injured Doctor Smoot. 

This was a fast-paced and funny mystery. Caerphilly is filled with wonderful, quirky characters and lots of small-town charm. 

I bought this one from Chirp May 10, 2022. You can buy your copy here.