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    We'll Always Have Parrots: A Meg Langslow Mystery
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    We'll Always Have Parrots: A Meg Langslow Mystery

    Written by Donna Andrews

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

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    About this audiobook

    Parrots are flying loose all over a convention hotel, making trouble and imitating everything everyone says. Monkeys are swinging from chandelier to chandelier. Michael is a teacher moonlighting as an actor in the show Porfiria, Queen of the Jungle, and the cast, crew, and their exotic animal colleagues are performing at the hotel. Michael and his partner Meg have become part of the show's family-but as with most families, there's a member who's very difficult to like. QB, the actress playing Porfiria, is a true drama queen, with a drinking problem and a bad attitude. When Meg attempts to extract the recalcitrant QB from her dressing room, Meg finds her dead. Now Meg and Michael, despite the zany atmosphere, must solve the murder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 12, 2003
    ISBN9781415912737
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    We'll Always Have Parrots: A Meg Langslow Mystery
    Author

    Donna Andrews

    DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. She has written over 30 books in the Meg Langslow mystery series.

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    • 5/5
      situational-humor, verbal-humor, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth, women-sleuths We'll always have parrots. And monkeys. And a tiger. Meg goes along to a con for fans of the television show based on a set of 1970s graphic novels in which her boyfriend is a prominent character. It isn't hard to figure out who the deserving murder victim will be, but the sleuthing is almost as good as the humor! Don't miss this fun read!Bernadette Dunne continues to be great narrator.
    • 5/5
      Meg and Michael are attending fan convention for Michael's television series. Meg is selling weapons and Michael is speaking and signing autographs. For some reason the Con group has let monkeys and parrots loose in the convention center. The animals add to the chaos! When the "star" of the show is found dead, by Meg, it gets Meg involved in trying to solve the mystery. Meg's parents and nephew Eric are also attending so they get to help too.This series is so often rolling on the floor funny, I do so enjoy spending time with these characters!
    • 4/5
      When Michael is required to attend a convention for his cult-classic television show Meg tags along to offer support and peddle a few swords. But much to everyone's (not-quite) dismay, the "star" of the show ends up dead in her hotel room with an army of suspects running around. One of the things I like most about Andrews is her ability to balance character development with plot. She introduces fairly well-rounded characters in each book, but doesn't lose herself in fleshing them out more than necessary. Readers are given just what they need to follow a sometimes-complicated network of interactions, and Andrews has a large pool from which to pick her murderers.
    • 5/5
      Oh my gosh! I loved the insight into the world of Comi-Cons.
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for a clever or corny title.

      I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The mystery was just convoluted enough that I didn't figure it out in the beginning - but if I did, who cares? This isn't meant to be high-brow or even all that realistic, but it is certainly entertaining.

      Since this is the first of this author's works that I've read, I can't make a comparison to her other books, nor can I critique the growth (or non-growth) of the main character.

      Not a laugh-out-loud read overall, there were a couple of spots that garnered an audible chuckle - both involving monkeys.
    • 4/5
      Another fun, madcap adventure in the Meg Langslow bird-themed mystery series. This one takes place at a fan convention for a cult TV show, and prominently parrots, monkey, a tiger, and, of course, Spike. Loads of laughs and a decent mystery that I figured out a lot sooner than Meg. Three and a half stars.
    • 4/5
      Always a fun and light read
    • 4/5
      A lot of humor in this mystery. Very good plotting. Further, the heroine doesn't do stupid things, if you don't count her private sleuthing. I don't count the latter because she does take whatever she finds out to the police. I'm enjoying the whole series, which I'm trying to read in order. But not too close together because I think I might get overload from the characters' quirks.
    • 3/5
      Amateur-sleuth Meg Langslow accompanied her actor-boyfriend to the fan convention celebrating his hit television series because she figured he could use the support and it gave her the opportunity to sell her handcrafted weapons. When the producer and main actress of the series turns up dead in her hotel room, Meg is suddenly up to her ears in parrots, monkeys and murder suspects.I enjoy this series because the stories are light, entertaining and quick reads. This wasn't one of my favorites, though.
    • 4/5
      A fun crime series with a likeable blacksmith protagonist with an eccentric family. This one's set at a fan convention for a fictional TV series starring Meg's boyfriend. How often do you come across a crime novel set at a con? :-)And yes, there are parrots.
    • 5/5
      I love this book. Andrews sure knows her cons.
    • 4/5
      Great Cozy. Funny and entertaining.
    • 4/5
      This was another great book by Donna Andrews, though perhaps not quite my favorite in the series.Meg attends a fan convention "con" with her boyfriend Michael, part time actor and college Drama professor, for the cult TV show he's on. While at the hotel, someone kills Tamalaine Wynncliffe-Jones, the show's leading lady and executive producer, or the QB as the rest of the cast likes to call her (short for Queen Bi7c4, or as she likes to think Queen Bee). Of course, everyone is a suspect, and since Meg was the one to find the body, she uses her amateur sleuthing skills to dig up information and try to piece together the puzzle of who dunnit, since she feels the cops are continually looking in the wrong direction.As usual, there's a chuckle per chapter at least as Andrews seamlessly blends humor in with her mysteries, and you're left guessing on the killer's identity right up until the end. Though each book in this series can stand alone, reading the previous books gives you greater insight into each character. Highly recommended!
    • 3/5
      Meg attends her first convention for Michael's TV show; she has to contend with strange fans, actors that define the term drama queen, and a hotel full of rampaging jungle animals such as parrots and monkeys who have escaped their rightful keepers. Meg once again must solve a mystery as the histrionic female lead is murdered with a multitude of suspects to contend with. This is below par for a Meg Lanslow although there are some interesting sub-plots the main mystery is derailed by the fact that the lead actress is so diva-ish and unlikeable that it's hard to work up enthusiasm for who killed her. This installment suffers from the lack of Meg's eccentric relatives and Meg and Michael working together as a team.
    • 4/5
      I can't speak to the rest of Andrews' novels but this one is certainly of particular interest to anyone who has enjoyed Sharyn McCrumb's mordant little stories about science fiction fandom at its worst.