Another wonderful Meg Langslow mystery

Owl Be Home for Christmas: A Meg Langslow Mystery

By: Donna Andrews

Rating: 5 of 5

It’s hard to believe that this is the twenty-six Meg Langslow mystery. One would think that such a long-running series might be running a tad low or at least out of bird puns on titles.

Neither of those are true of this series. Each book is funnier than the last. The bird puns continue apace and give a clue as to the story. This is one of my favorite series and I have read it faithfully since the first book was published.

In this story, Meg and family are snowbound at the Caerphilly Inn along with 200 plus ornithologists who are attending a scientific conference about owls that Meg’s grandfather is hosting.

There are many discussions about various owls, which you might be thinking would be kind of dry. However, when people are passionate about their subject, they can come to fisticuffs with those who disagree with them.

A death of one of the attendees occurs and, while few will mourn him, all are suddenly suspects and are trapped in the snowbound inn.

Speaking of that Inn, the descriptions of the food served makes me want to jump on a plane and hightail to it. I have to remind myself that it is fictional. I’ve read so much in this series and have enjoyed it all, it is like they are old friends just waiting for me in Caerphilly.

The book is one of the Christmas sub-series in the greater series. I can’t judge well if it can be read stand-alone, however, my real recommendation it to go back to “Murder with Peacocks” and start from the beginning. It is well worth it and will give you many hours of laughs and great whodunnits to solve.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.