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Yorktown, Virginia is reliving its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the battle and a craft fair. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivitiesand to sell her wrought-iron flamingos. Meg's also trying to keep her father from scaring too many tourists with his impersonation of an 18th-century physiciannot to mention saving her brother from the clutches of a con-man who might steal the computer game he's invented. It's a tough jobuntil the swindler is found dead, slain in Meg's booth with one of her wrought-iron creations. Now Meg must add another item to her to-do list: Don't forget to solve the murder!
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) .
