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New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail) .The 28th book and the seventh Christmas mystery in the Meg Langslow series, The Gift of the Magpie is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews.Meg's hopes for a relatively peaceful (if busy) Christmas vanish when the magpie that has been bringing her bits of tinsel and costume jewelry shows up with a gift that may hold the clue to solving a crime.Full of intrigue, this Christmas mystery will take readers home to Caerphilly, where the suspense falls as thick as the snow.
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) .
