false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg 615406 5 Poor Meg Langslow. She's blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She's a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg's road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair. There are Michael's and Meg's doting but demanding mothers, for a start. And then there's the fruitless hunt for a place big enough for the couple to live together. And a succession of crises brought on by the well-meaning but utterly wacky demands of her friends and family. Demands that Meg has a hard time refusing -- which is why she's tending the switchboard of Mutant Wizards, where her brother's computer games are created, and handling all the office management problems that no one else bothers with. For companionship, besides a crew of eccentric techies, she has a buzzard with one wing -- who she must feed frozen mice thawed in the office microwave -- and Michael's mother's nightmare dog. Not to mention the psychotherapists who refuse to give up their lease on half of the office space, and whose conflicting therapies cause continuing dissension. This is not what Meg had in mind when she agreed to help her brother move his staff to new offices. In fact, the atmosphere is so consistently loony that the office mail cart makes several passes through the reception room, with the office practical joker lying on top of it pretending to be dead, before Meg realizes that he's become the victim of someone who wasn't joking at all. He's been murdered for real. Donna Andrews's debut book, <i>Murder with Peacocks</i>, won the St. Martin's Malice Domestic best first novel contest and reaped a harvest of other honors as well. This is the fourth book in the Meg Langslow series, which features the intrepid Meg and her cast of oddball relatives. Their capers are a lighthearted joy to read. 2418377 2003 Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (Meg Langslow, #4) total:357|5:81|4:148|3:109|2:17|1:2| 357 1360 472 26 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 2 0 false Wed Jan 07 10:00:31 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:00:48 -0800 2009
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Andrews's fourth wacky bird-themed mystery (Murder with Peacocks, etc.), Meg Langslow, a temporary switchboard operator at her brother Rob's computer-game company, Mutant Wizards, must find the real killer when Rob, who made his fortune from a game called Lawyers from Hell...more...]]> 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 4 0 false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:07:47 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:09:46 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 16:41:31 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 16:43:31 -0800 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 4 0 false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:10:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:04:05 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 2 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 07:05:40 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 13:45:17 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 5 0 false Wed Mar 11 14:55:44 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 15:02:10 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 2 0 false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 13:58:10 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 13:59:40 -0800 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 4 0 false Sat Jun 13 22:17:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 22:17:49 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:01:59 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 18:28:41 -0800 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 4 0 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 00:09:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 01:23:43 -0700 2009 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 5 0 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 03 13:33:54 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 09:21:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2411200 0312990014 9780312990015 15 2 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255696605m/2411200.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2411200.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 3 0 false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 17:30:35 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 12:12:27 -0700 2008 615406 0312939590 9780312939595 339 24 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176344292m/615406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615406.Crouching_Buzzard_Leaping_Loon 5 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 18:27:15 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 18:36:36 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=615406