
No Nest for the Wicket
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Narrated by:
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Bernadette Dunne
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By:
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Donna Andrews
The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiancé, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an extreme croquet field - even the legs of cows and sheep are convenient extra wickets. Croquet has become all the rage in Caerphilly...until it appears someone in town has taken the rage a bit too literally. While stumbling down a steep bank after her ball, Meg encounters the body of a fresh female corpse with a mallet-sized dent in her head. If that isn't reason enough to call a timeout, it turns out that Michael knew the woman from years before. Ever curious, Meg decides that playing armchair sleuth is far more important than working on her game.
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In this installment Meg is trying to get into the good graces of the town snobs and is hosting a croquet tournament. The game comes to a sudden halt when a past romantic interest of Meg's boyfriend (fiance?) Michael gets herself murdered nearby.
Will Meg be able to clear the mystery while fighting a shopping mall to be built on a neighboring property? Meg is also investigating a long ago civil war battle that could be the solution to at least some of her problems.
Looking forward to more ---- this series you can read and reread so often - entertainment for years to come. Thank you Donna Andrews !!!
Cozy Mystery Series written for animal Lovers
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Great series!
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This is an EXTREMELY fun murder mystery!
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Fine balance of slapstick and wry humor
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Morris dancers! Extreme croquet! An unknown battle from The Late Unpleasantness! And a murder on the property, of course. The extended family and also the local historical society add almost as much madness as the Morris dancers sharing the barn with Meg and her Michael. Laugh yourself silly once again as Meg does more sleuthing!
Bernadette Dunne continues to be fantastic as narrator.
Extreme croquet?!?
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Good story. Great series
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Fun and full of surprises!
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Chatter throughout the game and while waiting for police Chief Burke to arrive had been about a nearby farm owner selling his acreage to real estate developers for an outlet mall to be built across the street from Meg and Michael’s new Victorian home. Dissenting votes came from residents who said this was historic land, the site of a small local battle during the Civil War.
Meg is wondering what happened to the professor from the University of Virginia who was to come pick up 23 boxes of the papers of Edwina Sprocket, former owner of their home, that they figured some historian would want to review. Until the murder victim could be identified, Chief Burke advised to store the boxes in a safer place, so nothing could disturb them. This meant that Meg and Michael had to go through them that night. What they found included the original newspaper account describing the local battle. They bring that to the town’s librarian for authentication, and she bursts into laughter.
The extreme croquet game was beginning to start up again the next day when a woman’s purse was found in the field. Finally, the murder victim is identified, but even she isn’t whom she appeared to be. As usual, Meg had discovered as much about the victim as Chief Burke was about uncover himself.
I truly admire Donna Andrews who can write such a hilarious mystery from such ordinary events, events that if taken singly would present laughter. Bunch them all together, however, and it becomes bedlam. It wasn’t uncommon for me to giggle to myself or even laugh out loud over the improbable but plausible plot around the unfortunate murder. Ultimately, the solution to the murder is discovered in plain sight, but only after all the clues were uncovered.
Bernadette Dunne lends her tranquil voice to narrate this frenzy of events. Told from the first person perspective of Meg Langslow, she mirrors her calm demeanor throughout the turmoil. Dunne does equally well at portraying the characters crowding Meg’s life, including the various croquet players.
Improbable but plausible plot
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Great job
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kept me guessing
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