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Meg Langslow, smack dab in the middle of another mystery. Just as expected. Donna does a wonderful job of turning a local rose show into an adventure that will make you laugh, frown, and puzzle away. Her characters are so eccentric they will stretch your imagination to the limit. Of course, not all of them are human! Roped into organizing the Caerphilly rose show Meg holds her own against trying circumstances and animal antics. Mrs. Winkleson has agreed to allow the rose show to take place in her barns, but she is also one of the entrants. This causes suspicions as baffling things begin to happen. Every day is a new challenge for Meg. Even the simple tasks become complicated. Rose bushes, dogs and pruning shears go missing. Animals appear out of nowhere to harass the rose show contestants and in the midst of it all the pruning shears become a murder weapon. Meg’s grandfather, an animal activist, is sure Mrs. Winkleson is up to no good when he discovers her treatment of the “less than perfect” animals that are born on the ranch. If they don’t meet her “color scheme” they disappear. Shortly before the rose show Meg is horrified to find out that Mrs. Winkleson and has called the rose club members informing them that the only roses to be shown are white and black. (She insists because it is her motif for the whole ranch.) Needles to say, it takes Meg awhile to straighten everything out and keep the peace between the contestants. When Meg out smarts the geese, passes the fainting goats and breaks into Mrs. Winkleson’s rose garden, in the name of justice, the outcome takes a dangerous twist. Swan for the Money was a “hoot” if you are a humor junkie. However, it was a bit much for my practical imagination.Read full review
Meg Langslow's parents have taken up the hobby of competitive rose gardening. Mother has recruited Meg to organize the Caerphilly Garden Club's annual rose show which is being held this year at Raven Hill, a farm owned by a Mrs. Winkleson. Mrs. Winkleson favors monochromatic color schemes of black, white, and gray. She has a purebred Maltese who has been dognapped. She has black-and-white Tennessee belted fainting goats and black-and-white Belties cattle. She has tried, unsuccessfully, to restrict the show to black and white roses. She has her own rose beds enclosed by a twelve foot high chain-link fence topped with razor wire. So when a fallen figure clad in a black rain cape is found lying in the goat pasture, stabbed in the back with garden secateurs, it is no wonder the victim is thought to be Mrs. Winkleson, that is, until Mrs. Winkleson appears at the crime scene demanding to know what is going on.Read full review
I love Donna Andrews books. I have read all of them up to "Swan for the Money". I think they are a light mystery, not full of gore like some are. She also has much humor with all of Meg's family always around. Meg has gotten herself into setting up a Rose Show and diving right into her newest mystery. I have enjoyed all her books.
Entertaining mystery with the usual characters plus a few new ones. :)
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