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Meg helps run Caerphillys summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer--turn up the heat, because Some Like it Hawk! The hilariously funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the award-winning New York Times bestselling series that has captured human and avian hearts alike. Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmiths trade at Caerphilly Days, a festival inspired by her towns sudden notoriety as The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail. The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphillys public buildings, and all employees have evacuated --except one. Phineas Throckmorton, the town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year.Mr. Throckmortons long siege has only been possible because of a pre-Civil War tunnel leading from the courthouse basement to a crawl space beneath the bandstand.
About the Author
I've been writing since I learned to print, but didn't get published until Murder with Peacocks won the Malice Domestic/St. Martins Press Best First Traditional Mystery contest in spring 1998. Since then I've written six more comic mysteries books featuring ornamental blacksmith Meg Langslow: Murder with Puffins (2000) , Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos (2001) , Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (2003) , We'll Always Have Parrots (2004) , Owls Well That Ends Well (2005) , and No Nest for the Wicket (August 2006) . I've also started another series in with the sleuth, Turing Hopper, is an artificial intelligence personality living inside a corporate computer: You've Got Murder (2002) , Click Here for Murder (2003) , Access Denied (2004) , and Delete All Suspects (2005) .
