Review: Murder with Puffins by: Donna Andrews

Title: Murder with Puffins

Author: Donna Andrews

Series: Meg Langslow #2

Format: e-book ( 308 p.) Personal Purchase

Description:

Winner of the St. Martin's Malice Domestic Award in 1997 for her first work Murder With Peacocks, Donna Andrews brings back her zany characters and disastrous events.

In an attempt to get away from her family, Meg and her boyfriend go to a tiny island off the coast of Maine. What could have been a romantic getaway slowly turns into disaster.

Once there, they are marooned by a hurricane and that is only the beginning of their problems. Meg and her boyfriend arrive at the house only to discover that Meg's parents and siblings, along with their spouses are all there. When a murder takes place, Meg realizes that she and her boyfriend can no longer sit by a cozy fireplace, but must instead tramp around the muddy island to keep try and clear her father who is the chief suspect.

My Thoughts: 

I love this series is such fun I always find myself laughing out loud so much.  In this book new couple Meg and Michael with a visit to a small island in Maine what they didn't count on was half the family being there.  Add to that a major storm is coming, and someone winds up dead to boot now Michael and Meg are trying to piece the puzzle together of what happened and why.

I love Donna Andrews writing it really pulls you in and you end up laughing so much with all Meg's crazy relatives even Michael's mothers dog Spike ends up there.  Too much fun!

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Review: Snipped in the Bud by: Kate Collins

Title: Snipped in the Bud

Author: Kate Collins

Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime

Format: e-book ( 296 p.) Personal Purchase

Description:

When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn t be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl s got to face down her dragons....

PLANT OF ATTACK

Someone orders a black rose for Abby s old law school nemesis, Professor "Snapdragon" Puffer. But her plans for a speedy delivery are foiled when he catches her putting the bloom on his desk and sends it straight into the trash. Abby flees in terror, only to run smack into Carson Reed, the professor who recently had her arrested at an animal rights protest. After a biting exchange, Abby storms out of the building. But if there s anything she can t stand, it s injustice and bullies. So, even though she knows bad luck comes in threes, she ignores the advice of her sometimes boyfriend, hunk-a-licious Marco Salvare, and heads back in to retrieve her dignity and her flower -- only to find the rose now decorating a dead professor, and herself the prime suspect....

My Thoughts; 

So much was going on with poor Abby whose in trouble when a professor ends up dead and Abby ends up in the hot seat.  She spends her time having to hide to avoid people who want her arrested.  Who killed Carson Reed and why?  Did he have other enemy's besides our beloved Florist?

This book was such fun going back and visiting with Abby and her friends and family.  I have been spending alot of time reading and defiantly loved going back to some favorite series to catch up with.  This book was such a blast seeing how it went.

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