Meg Lanslow: vol. 29

Murder Most Fowl

Plot

A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in the latest installment from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon Always Wings Twice.

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 to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly surprised to find that someone has murdered him.

But who? Some people's motives were obvious from the footage: the couple whose affair was revealed . . . the bombastic leader of the reenactors, who could be facing years in prison if the evidence from the video helps convict him of sheep stealing . . . the actress who's desperately trying to downplay a health issue that could cost her the role of her life. Other motives are only hinted at-did the filmmaker have other footage that would reveal why one of the actors is behaving so furtively?

Unfortunately, whoever murdered Goodwin also destroyed all the electronic devices on which his video was stored. So Caerphilly's chief of police-and Meg-must rediscover the same secrets the filmmaker did if they want to catch a killer.


The Series - Meg Langslow Mystery - Meg Langslow is a blacksmith living in Yorktown, Virginia. This series features an exceptional sloppy detective and very decorative blacksmith. The mystery series has won three awards namely the Lefty, Anthony, and Agatha.

01. Murder With Peacocks (January 1999)
02. Murder With Puffins (May 2000)
03. Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos (Oct 2001)
04. Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (Jan 2003)
05. We'll Always Have Parrots (Feb 2004)
06. Owls Well That Ends Well (Apr 2005)
07. No Nest for the Wicket (Aug 2006)
08. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (Aug 2007)
09. Cockatiels at Seven (Jul 2008)
10. Six Geese A Slaying (Nov 2008)
11. Swan for the Money (Aug 2009)
12. Stork Raving Mad (Jul 2010)
13. The Real Macaw (Jul 2011)
14. Some Like It Hawk (Jul 2012)
15. The Hen of the Baskervilles (Jul 2013)
16. Duck the Halls (Oct 2013)
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus (Jul 2014)
18. The Nightingale Before Christmas (Oct 2014)
19. Lord of the Wings (Aug 2015)
20. Die Like an Eagle (Aug 2016)
21. Gone Gull (Aug 2017)
22. How the Finch Stole Christmas! (Oct 2017)
23. Toucan Keep a Secret (Aug 2018)
24. Lark! the Herald Angels Sing (Oct 2018)
25. Terns of Endearment (Aug 2019)
26. Owl Be Home for Christmas (Oct 2019)
27. The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Aug 2020)
28. The Gift of the Magpie (Oct 2020)
29. Murder Most Fowl (Aug 2021)
30. The Twelve Jays of Christmas (Oct 2021)
31. Round Up the Usual Peacocks (Aug 2022)