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    Some Like it Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery
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    Some Like it Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery
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    Some Like it Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery

    Written by Donna Andrews

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

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    About this audiobook

    Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at Caerphilly Days, a festival inspired by the town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail." The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated - except one. Phineas Throckmorton, town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year. But the lender seems increasingly determined to evict him, and may succeed after one of its executives is found shot, apparently from inside the basement. Meg and her fellow townspeople suspect that someone hopes to end the siege by framing Mr. Throckmorton. Meg soon deduces that the killer isn't just trying to end the siege but to conceal information that would help the town reclaim its buildings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJul 17, 2012
    ISBN9781611208498
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    Some Like it Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery
    Author

    Donna Andrews

    DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. She has written over 30 books in the Meg Langslow mystery series.

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    • 5/5
      situational-humor, verbal-humor, family-dynamics, friendship, cozy-mystery The town of Caerphilly has been tossed out of its municipal buildings by The Evil Lender since the felonious former mayor did not make payment on loans which used the buildings as collateral and then absconded with the money. Almost all of the relevant offices and materials were relocated when the problem came to light over a year ago, but one citizen has camped out in an area of the basement which appears inaccessible and is guarding all of the documents stored there. There actually is a tunnel to the hidden area and it is kind of an open secret to the townsfolk who have been supplying foodstuffs and other necessities. But of course there are complications and a murder, so then the fun and the sleuthing begin in earnest! Loved it!
    • 4/5
      Not her best and I saw most of it coming, but still fun.
    • 4/5
      I love this series - it's probably one of my top 5 favourites and it's always good for a chuckle. I will admit to some concern when Ms. Andrews brought twins into Meg's story as I'm not a mad keen fan on reading about mommy-hood. I'm happy to say that Ms. Andrews handles it family additions beautifully - they don't detract from the story and give some of the secondary characters (like Spike) someone to play off of. With Meg's crazy extended family around she's able to continue sleuthing in fine style.

      The plot in Some like it Hawk revolves around trying to save the town and it's buildings from foreclosure by the evil bank. It's probably not the strongest plot line in the series, but it held my attention and had a sufficient number of bad guys to keep a reader guessing. In addition, Ms. Andrews has drawn such a fantastic, kooky world full of colourful, well-written characters, that reading is sheer pleasure - I personally wish I could live in a town like Caerphilly and know these people personally.

      I drank the cool-aid the minute I put down Murder with Peacocks and I'll avidly await any new Meg Langslow Mystery for as long as Ms. Andrews can continue to tap away at her keyboard.
    • 2/5
      Fluff to listen to at the gym. Enjoyable, not memorable.
    • 3/5
      Some of the polish has worn off Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow series, and Some Like it Hawk isn't nearly as engaging as earlier installments. The excitement over Meg's personal life is largely over, and although she is still perfectly comfortable running her home as a public building (I feel claustrophobic just reading about it), the somewhat enjoyable chaos is merely more of the same. Many of the gimmicks of earlier novels - such as that damn gorilla suit - have become obnoxious plot devices as opposed to sentimental allusions, and the plot itself is rather dry, save for one major question: will Meg and Michael lose their house? This is the question that kept me reading through a rather lackluster story, and the resolution of this question is certainly not a centerpiece of the conclusion. Overall, much of the story felt ... obligatory. While I've enjoyed the series thus far, I'm not altogether certain I will bother with the next, should Andrews continue the series.
    • 4/5
      Blurb: "Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at "Caerphilly Days," a festival inspired by her town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail." The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's 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." Reliable murder and humerous mayhem - a good read!
    • 5/5
      Donna Andrews has been writing about Meg Langslow for quite a while now, in fact this is book 14 in the series. I now own all of the series but this is the first I've read. I've heard wonderful things about the series but other books just seemed to keep pushing to the front. Well, no more! Even though I normally read series in order I made an exception for this book because I won it as an ARC and promised to read and write a review.

      Having missed out on the first 13 books I'm going to be very careful about spoilers.

      Meg and her family and friends are working to try and save their town from an "evil lender". In the process they are having a summer celebration with blacksmithing demonstrations, dancers, singers, bands, plays and just about anything else that can be done on a stage. There are food booths and craft booths, there are many, many "loud" things. The LOUDER the better since they are covering up a secret.

      There are lots of parts of the book, the cousin who when stressed needs to be in a gorilla suit, Meg's twins learning about fireworks and "boom".

      I love the characters, I love the setting and most of all I love that there was restraint in the number of dead bodies that show up. Meg is working with the police to solve the murder of one of the staff of the evil lender. With all the chaos of the "fair" and the confusion of the mystery the book kept me guessing.

      It is a tribute to a very good author that I could start at book 14 and want to go back and read all the earlier books.
    • 4/5
      Another delightful installment in the Meg Langslow (professional blacksmith and mom of twin boys) mystery series. This time, the shady mortgage company is trying to foreclose on the town's courthouse and administrative building as the former mayor absconded with the tax revenues and failed to make the mortgage payments. But the town document registrar is holed up barricaded in the basement to prevent their takeover. They tried starving him out and cannot figure how he's managing to survive. Meg and a few key towns people are in on the secret and are supporting the registrar. Suddenly, one of the shady mortgage company personnel is shot dead just outside the basement barricade and the registrar is the prime suspect. What to do? This is a delightful, clean and entertaining mystery with lots of amusing moments as well as a few tense ones. Happy Independence Day!
    • 4/5
      Good plot, not as humerous as others in the series.
    • 4/5
      Caerphilly is under siege, as the Evil Lender has brought in goons to guard the courthouse, seized for non-payment of a mortgage bought by the embezzling ex-mayor. In a further wrinkle, the town clerk has barricaded himself into the basement of the courthouse. Smuggling in supplies is dangerous in more ways than one. Then a bank official is murdered in front of the barricade.A distinctly minor entry in the series.