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'Tis the season to be jolly - and for Meg Langslow to round up stray animals of all sorts as well as a killer. Duck the Halls!

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers boughs of holly and barrels of laughs with Meg's latest adventure in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series. A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when volunteer fireman Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in the choir loft. The lengthy process of de-skunking the church requires its annual pre-Christmas concert to relocate to Trinity Episcopal, where Mother insists the show must go on, despite the budget-related protests of Mr. Vess, an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile, when Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks to the zoo, they discover that his boa has been stolen - only to turn up later during the concert, slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens. The next morning is Sunday, and the congregation of St. Byblig's, the local Catholic church, arrive to find it completely filled with several hundred ducks.

It's clear that some serious holiday pranksters are on the loose, and Meg is determined to find them. But before she can, a fire breaks out at Trinity, and Mr. Vess is discovered dead. Who would have murdered such a harmless - if slightly cranky - old man? Who has the time during the busy holiday season to herd all of these animals into the town's churches? And will Meg ever be able to finish all of her shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating in time for Christmas Eve? A Yuletide treasure for the ages, Duck the Halls is guaranteed to put the "ho ho hos" into readers' holidays.

Now with an excerpt from Donna Andrews' next Meg Langslow holiday mystery How the Finch Stole Christmas!, available in October 2017.

Length: 319 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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"Andrews leavens the action with her trademark humor, including dueling Christmas dinners and an extravagant--and extravagantly funny--live nativity scene." --Publishers Weekly

"Duck the Halls offers a wealth of yuletide yuks amid the Christmas carnage, and Andrews' faithful fans will flock to greet the birth of her latest funfest." --Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Meg, as well as her quirky extended family, makes this humorous cozy a holiday treat." --Booklist

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Donna Andrews is the author of the Meg Langslow mysteries, including Stork Raving Mad and Swan for the Money. She has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry awards, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. When not writing fiction, Andrews is a self-confessed nerd, rarely found away from her computer, unless she's messing in the garden. She lives in Reston, Virginia. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00CQY9CPW
Publisher : Minotaur Books; First edition (22 October 2013)
Language : English
File size : 2798 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 319 pages

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Ela Gardner

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2014

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Fun as always from Donna Andrews

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My Favorite Mystery Series

Reviewed in Germany on 28 November 2013

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Skunks in the Baptists’ choir loft, an emerald tree boa in the Episcopalians’ Christmas decorations, and several hundred ducks in the Catholics’ sanctuary - a prankster is targeting the churches of Caerphilly and, as usual, it falls to Meg Langslow to clean up the resulting mess. And that’s before a dead body is found in the basement (the ‘undercroft’ as Meg’s mother insists on calling it) of Trinity Episcopal.

As with most of the Meg Langslow books, the mystery takes a backseat to the general mayhem that is Meg’s family. The pranks start happening right at the beginning of the story but the murder doesn’t happen until about halfway through. This time, there isn’t only one mystery but three interwoven ones (the prankster, the murder, and an attempted theft).
All the characters, even the secondary ones, have distinct personalities and it’s great fun to see what they’re up to this time. While this book can be read as a standalone, much of the enjoyment (in my opinion at least) is derived from seeing the latest antics of already beloved characters like Meg’s father and her brother Rob.
I especially enjoyed hearing about some of the characters that didn’t show up in the last couple of books. We get a quick update on what Eileen, Timmy, and Dr. Smoot (among others) are up to. Also, Michael’s mom makes a reappearance (finally!) and stages a duel with Meg’s mother over who can produce the most outlandish Christmas dinner. We also get to meet the formidable Judge Jane. Her ‘courtroom’ scene is a hoot.

This is a humorous cozy mystery where the emphasis is definitely on the humor. If that’s what you’re looking for, I can only recommend this book and all the others in the Meg Langslow series.

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Donna Andrews writes mysteries with a comic flair

Reviewed in Canada on 10 January 2016

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Who is playing pranks on the town of Caerfilly? So many crazy happenings within a few days of Christmas, what is Meg to do? She is the designated go-to person to see that all the church Christmas programs go off without a disaster accompanying them. Without her handy notebook-that-tells-her-when-to-breathe she would be completely lost.

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Mittelmäßige Weihnachtsgeschichte

Reviewed in Germany on 3 July 2016

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Ich mag die Bücher von Donna Andrews. Eigentlich! Dieses hat zuviele Wiederholungen, zuviel Beschreibungen weihnachtlicher Dekorationen, ob im Haus oder in der Stadt. Bis die Handlung in Schwung kommt sind 100 Seiten vorbei und auch dann ist man nicht unbedingt neugierig wie es weiter geht.
Schade, die ersten 5 Bücher waren toll aber jetzt sollte die Autorin eine Pause einlegen.

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Vergnügliche Hatz zur Weihnachtszeit

Reviewed in Germany on 14 October 2014

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Ein weiterer gelungener Band der Reihe, Meg und ihre Lieben müssen sich mit diversen Problemen herumschlagen und meistern diese natürlich mit wenig Aufwand. Das tut dem Vergnügen aber keinen Abbruch. Ich habe das Buch sehr gerne gelesen und freue mich schon auf den nächsten Band.

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