Donna Andrews
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Kevin, Meg's cyber-savvy nephew who lives in the basement, comes to her with a problem. He's become involved as the techie for a true-crime podcast, one that focuses on Virginia cold cases and unsolved crimes. And he thinks their podcast has hit a nerve with someone . . . one of the podcast team has had a brush with death that Kevin thinks was an attempted murder, not an accident. Kevin rather sheepishly asks for Meg's help in checking out the people...
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Meg Langslow is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, threatening to ruin the newly-opened center's reputation. Is it the work of a rival center? Have the developers who want to build a resort atop Biscuit Mountain found a new tactic to pressure Cordelia into selling? Or is the real target Meg's grandfather?
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Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying...
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"Meg's running Caerphilly's Helping Hands for the Holidays project, in which neighbors help each other with things they can't do and can't afford to have done. Her hopes for a relatively peaceful (if busy) Christmas vanish when someone murders Harvey the Hoarder, whose house the Helping Hands were decluttering. Was there any truth to the rumor that he had something valuable hidden beneath all his junk? Was one of his friends, neighbors, or relatives...
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Meg and Michael’s annual holiday celebration is well underway, with a throng of out-of-town relatives staying at their house. Their library, currently occupied by Roderick Castlemayne, the wildlife artist, is creating twelve paintings of birds to illustrate Meg’s grandfather’s latest nature book. It’s almost a full-time job fending all the visitors who want to confront Castlemayne―reporters, bill collectors, process servers, and several...
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As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house?each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour. Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with the organization, and she finds herself surrounded by flamboyant personalities with massive egos clashing and feeling their professional reputations are at stake....
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When her old friend Karen drops by with her two-year-old son, Meg Langslow reluctantly agrees to mind him for a few hours. The next morning, when Karen is still MIA, Meg retraces her friend's footsteps and starts to suspect that her disappearance is linked to at least one serious crime. Has Karen been killed or kidnapped? Is she on the run? What's the story with her ex-husband Jasper? The police don't seem to care. So now it's up to Meg to crack the...
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"Long romantic walks along the beach, snuggling together in front of a warm fire, falling asleep in each other's arms is what Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, are looking forward to. Their hopes are dashed when they arrive to find Aunt Phoebe's house already populated by Meg's parents, her brother, a neighbor and Aunt Phoebe. Neither Meg nor Michael is fully prepared to spend their getaway weekend trampling around the muddy island trying to...
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"When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the...
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"Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you're a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance of a white Christmas. Meg already has her hands full, trying to make the season festive for the dozen programmers who are staying with her and Michael while working on a rush project with her brother's software company. At least it's an interesting project, since the...
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"Halloween has come to Caerphilly! And with it comes a series of ghosts, witches, zombies, superheroes, and other creatures flying about. As part of the town's Goblin Patrol, it's Meg's job to assist the police if the town's spooky festivities spin out of control. Which is exactly what happens when a dead body turns up in the woods. Soon it's up to Meg and her fellow goblins to keep calm, carry on with all the costumed revelers, and unmask a criminal...
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The local curmudgeon, whose beard and belly made him a natural for the role of Santa Claus, has been murdered. Now Meg and Chief Burke, who is playing one of the wise men in the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade, are faced with the two-fold mission of solving the murder and saving Christmas!