"Funny amateur sleuth mystery"
It's the annual Yorktown Day celebration. Her
formidable future mother-in-law drafts Meg Langslow into
making sure that the crafts people, reenactors and everyone
else connected to the event are staying in period. No
articles that weren't available when the British
surrendered to George Washington are allowed. It is Meg's
sad and much lamented job to enforce that rule or risk
stirring the wrath of a woman she wants to please. Trying to be everything for everybody has given Meg a
headache and a need for some time alone. At the welcoming
night party, she sneaks out to go to her booth, which she
finds vandalized. By the time she gets over that setback,
she gets an even bigger one. A man with a knife in his
back is found dead behind her booth. Meg made the knife
and like many other people argued in public with the
victim. To insure that the sheriff doesn't arrest the
wrong person, Meg decide to do a little sleuthing on her
own. Meg Langslow has to be one of the most quirky and
endearing amateur sleuths to grace the pages of a mystery
novel in a long time. Her relatives and friends, who make
up most of the secondary characters, are lovable eccentrics
that juice up the story line. Donna Andrews has written an
excellent who-done-it that should win her an award. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted September 13, 2001
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