Stork Raving Mad
Written by Donna Andrews
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
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Meg Langslow is pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind having a houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, who has agreed to come to town for the production. Surely they can spare some room for such an important academic cause?
Senor Mendoza turns out to be a partygoer who loves to spend raucous evenings among adoring students...at Casa Langslow. Into this chaos arrives the dean of the English department, who insists the play be canceled. Then the unthinkable happens: the dean is found murdered, and Meg's house has become a crime scene. Now it's up to Meg to help Chief Burke solve the murders, rescue the student's dissertation, make sure Michael doesn't lose tenure, and, while she's at it, give birth to twins. Encore! Encore!
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5historical-fiction, cozy-mystery, situational-humor, verbal-humor, family-dynamics The Rolls is already a valuable antique in the time of the story which also includes Princess style corded phones, multiple radio stations, and phone booths. There's also a Renaissance gala on a family estate, the missing Rollers and the murder victims total two of each, a multiplicity of suspects and red herrings, and a disgraceful police chief making a mess only Max and a real cop can untangle. But Sarah is the one with the creative imagination that leads to the resolution. And it's great fun! Andi Arndt is the very enjoyable narrator.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another funny romp through the life of Meg Lanslow, this time pregnant and expecting twins at any moment. All the familiar characters are here, her eccentric family plus a houseful of students being temporarily housed because of a boiler breakdown in the dorms of the college where husband Michael teaches. Lots of fun plus a murder of a professor in the library.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Meg's house full of college students because the heat is off- she is pregnant= professor is murdered- Meg called to solve
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the twelth in Andrews' series about Meg Langslow, blacksmith by trade, married to actor/drama professor Michael. The enormous old house Meg and Michael bought and are fixing up is as full as it can hold, as it is housing a lot of students from Caerphilly College whose heating plant is not working. Meg is 8 1/2 months pregnant with twins, so not getting around that much, but there's always people around to help her out. The head of the English department comes to tell one of the drama grad students that his dissertation proposal has been rejected along with another professor who is part of the administration. Dr. Wright, the English chair, is alone in the library while waiting for a meeting with the student and his advisers. Meg finds her dead, and with about 50 people in the house, including a Spanish playwright, there is no lack of suspects.Donna Andrews writes interesting characters and usually hilarious stories. This volume was not as laugh-out-loud funny to me - though maybe I'm just getting too used to her style. But the story is as well-plotted as ever. If you haven't read any of this series yet, run, don't walk, to get hold of it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg and Michael are homebound on a dreary winter's afternoon, marooned in their huge Victorian home. Alas, alack, poor things, right? Ha! They have dozens of houseguests. Students from Caerphilly College, where Michael teaches drama, slung out into the cold by the College's heating system going kerflooie in the coldest winter anyone can remember.Add to the madness Meg's mom on a kamikaze decorating binge for the arrival of Meg's twins (genders unknown and referred to by cute names throughout like Castor and Pollux and Heckel and Jeckel), her brother Rob's computer interns, and oh yeah a murder, and the fun never stops.But many things do, sad to note. A major plot thread involving an elderly Catalan Franco resistor and the US premiere of his sixty-year-old play goes absolutely nowhere and would have been unnoticeable had it been absent. Meg's ancient and irascible grandfather is deployed a couple times to very little immediate effect, but rather to set up and explain future plots (he donates a state-of-the-art theater and TV production facility to Caerphilly). A student love triangle resolves itself remarkably swiftly and tidily, but not hugely believably, and with little fanfare.Still, the book was fun, and it's number 12 or some ridiculous thing, so one isn't expecting new literary forms to emerge or the Pulitzer committee to scrutinize Andrews's CV for accusations of plagiarism before awarding her an investigative journalism award or some damn thing. She's telling a fun story, taken on its own merits, and delivers on the promise implicit in the series: Sane center Meg is instrumental in weaving the correct picture from the chaos of tangled threads that surround her. Expect more, it won't deliver; expect this, you're in for a very nice afternoon's entertainment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good fun, light and entertaining.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love Meg and her crazy family. In this book Meg is 8 months pregnant with about 25 people living in her house. The babies are twins but Meg and Michael don't know the sexes so a crazy combination of pair names are used through the book, which is great fun. When one of the Deans from Michael's college is found dead in the library Meg is on the hunt but trying to stay out of things, mostly for the sake of her babies. There are plenty of suspects and plenty of people who could have done it. I still have several books in this series to catch up on, and it is a lot of fun doing so.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg and Michael have numerous houseguests, including several relatives, a couple of dozen students, and an elderly Spanish playwright. And Meg is nine months pregnant with twins. A pair of unpleasant college representatives with a vendetta against the drama program show up to make trouble. A murder is the last straw.The wackiness seems a bit perfunctory here; one of the weaker entries in the series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stork Raving Mad is the latest book in the Meg Langslow series, and it picks up approximately thirty-four weeks after the previous novel. I appreciate Andrews' sense of timing for the novels; instead of detailing every months or week bit by bit, Andrews hops and skips through a timeline that allows her to remain current, and gloss over major events without drawing them out unnecessarily. The hijinks are in full swing, the familiar cast of characters are accounted for, and the reader will be happy to meet the characteristically miserable victim and the even less likable guilty party. I do have this to say about the last page: No fair.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg is eight and a half months pregnant with twins. Their house is full of students due to a heating issue and then Michael asks if she wouldn’t mind another houseguest. One of his doctoral students has translated a play by a minor Spanish playwright - Senor Medoza, who has agreed to come to town to watch the performance. But then the dean of the English department and a man from the college president’s office arrive to demand the play is cancelled. More chaos ensues when the dean is murdered and Meg's house is the crime scene. Fabulously funny as usual - a great read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meg is hugely pregnant with a houseful of displaced students when one of the college's deans is murdered at her house. She has to solve the murder while trying to rest and deal with her quirky relatives. Very funny with a major cliffhanger.