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description: A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from awardwinning New York Times bestselling author of Six Geese A Slaying just in time for the holidaysThe brilliantly funny and talented Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. A few nights before Christmas Meg is awakened when 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. Otis an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile when Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks to the zoo they discover that his boa has been stolenonly to turn up later during the concert slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens.Its 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. Otis is discovered dead. Could this be a bit of nasty revenge from the now deposed Pruitt family? Or harassment from the Evil Lender? As Meg searches for answers she also races to finish all of her Christmas shopping wrapping cooking caroling and decorating in time to make the season jolly for Michael and the twins.Guaranteed to put the ho ho hos into the holidays of cozy lovers everywhere Duck the Halls is a gut-bustingly funny mystery the latest from the award-winning Donna Andrews.
language: English
title: Duck the Halls
publisher: Minotaur Books