Duck the Halls by Director Of Therapy Research Donna Andrews

Duck the Halls by Director Of Therapy Research Donna Andrews

This time, Meg has got herself into a Holy mess

A yuletide funfest.--Richmond Times-Dispatch

In Duck the Halls, the brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers boughs of holly and barrels of laughs with Meg's latest adventure in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series. A few nights before Christmas, Meg Langslow is awakened when volunteer fireman 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. Vess, an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile, when Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks to the zoo, they discover that his boa has been stolen. . .only to turn up later during the concert, slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens. The next morning is Sunday, and the congregation of St. Byblig's, the local Catholic church, arrives to find it completely filled with several hundred ducks.
Extravagantly funny. --Publishers Weekly

It's 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. Vess is found dead. Who would have murdered such a harmless--if slightly cranky--old man? Who has the time, during the busy holiday season, to herd all of these animals into the town's churches? And will Meg ever be able to finish all of her shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating in time for Christmas Eve?

The Meg Langslow mysteries, including Stork Raving Crazy and Swan for the Money, are written by Donna Andrews. She has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry awards, as well as a Romantic Times award for best debut novel, two Lefty Bromberg Awards, and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. Andrews is a self-described nerd who can rarely be spotted away from her computer unless she's tinkering in the yard. She currently resides in Reston, VA. Bernadette has been honored to narrate the work of Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, and Anne Rice, to mention a few. She has won more than a dozen Audiofile Earphones Awards and is a three-time Audie candidate.

In the nonfiction section, she has Ayn Rand's philosophy as well as Barbara Walters' and Katharine Hepburn's memoirs. Memoirs of a Geisha, The Devil Wears Prada, and the Betty Smith classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are all popular choices. Bernadette is a New York-based actress who studied at the Royal National Theater in London.