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Toucan Keep a Secret

#23 in series

by Donna Andrews
Bernadette Dunne
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Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal locking up after an event and checking on the toucan that Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. After hearing a hammering in the crypt, Meg finds an elderly parishioner lying dead on the floor. Several niches have been chiseled open, several urns knocked out, and amid the spilled ashes is a gold ring with a huge red stone. The curmudgeonly victim had become disgruntled with the church and ranted all over town about taking back his wife's ashes. Did someone who had it in for him follow him? Or was the motive grave robbery? Or did he see someone breaking in and investigate? Why was the ruby left behind? While Chief Burke investigates the murder, Robyn recruits Meg to contact the families of the people whose ashes were disturbed. During this task, Meg discovers clues that indicate that a thief broke into the church to steal the toucan the night of the murder, so Meg decides to set a trap for the would-be toucan thief...who might also be the killer.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Meg Langslow Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 7, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666605747
      • File size: 264820 KB
      • Duration: 09:11:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Bernadette Dunne demonstrates her wide range of voice skills in performing the role of Meg, the main character in the Meg Langslow series. Dunne effectively conveys the fear Meg experiences when she sees a light in a church crypt and finds a murdered man there and five cremation niches broken open. Soon the listener catches the contagious enthusiasm of Meg's father as he investigates a thirty-year-old robbery/homicide case that is connected to all the broken units. Dunne uses believable voices that convey the nature of the quirky characters Andrews has created--for example, Meg's micromanaging mother and the efficient but gruff police chief. The energy and joy Dunne brings to this audiobook make it a special listen. V.M.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 11, 2018
      Agatha-winner Andrews’s lively 23rd Meg Langslow mystery (after 2017’s How the Finch Stole Christmas) finds ornamental blacksmith Meg occupied with administrative duties at Trinity Episcopal Church in Caerphilly, Va., while her friend the rector, Robyn Smith, is on medical leave. In the church’s place for cremated remains, Meg stumbles across the body of Junius Hagley, one of the church’s more persnickety parishioners. Various remains have been disturbed, and a ring found near the body raises new questions about the long-ago van der Lynden jewel robbery. The van der Lynden son and accomplices were sent to prison, but the jewels were never recovered. Meg juggles interviews with relatives of the departed and those affected by the robbery, potential threats against a toucan present at the murder, and ways to keep her medical examiner father—an enthusiastic amateur criminologist—out of the hair of the harried police chief. Even if some readers might guess the perpetrator, they will surely enjoy a re-enactment of the robbery with earnest actors and ingenious substitutes for firearms. This long-running cozy series shows no signs of losing its freshness. Agent: Ellen Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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