Birder, She Write - Donna Andrews
Publication Date: Aug. 1, 2023
She read
Meg and Cordelia, her grandmother, join others in a search for a lost African American cemetery. They do find it, but also find the recently murdered body of one of the town’s most disliked characters. There is a lot going on in this cozy mystery - a murder, a missing neighbor, drugs, moonshine, an annoying magazine writer interviewing Cordelia, bee hive treachery, blackmail, the NIMBYs who move to a rural area and then hate that there are animals and farms.
This is the thirty third in the Meg Langslow mystery series; it is the first I have read. It was OK as a standalone, but there are many characters and as I imagine most of them have been introduced in earlier books, it was a little difficult at first to keep them and their relationships straight. The story takes place in Virginia. Meg is not a detective, but rather a decorative blacksmith who sometimes helps out the local mayor as well as enjoying becoming embroiled in local mysteries.
There is light humor throughout the book and I enjoyed the character of Meg. There was also a lot of information about raising bees as well as other flora and fauna found in rural living.
Fans of this series will welcome this addition to it.
Thanks to #netgalley and #stmartinspress @minotaur_books for the ARC.
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