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A while back, I had an ARC of Birder, She Wrote, which is the 33rd Meg Langslow book by Donna Andrews, and really liked it - as I've liked all of the Langslow books that I've read. I keep thinking Andrews will finally go totally over-the-top with the Langslow books, and she skates really really close to the line a lot, but somehow (IMO, at least) doesn't quite go over it. They're just plain laugh-out-loud funny, and I can't read them around anyone else. Now Birder is on sale in the US for $2.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9KXK3JK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/birder-she-wrote

Spoiler:

Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael’s latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed.

First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them – a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions next door to working farms and then do their best to make life miserable for the farmers. And finally Meg’s grandmother, shows up, trailed by a nosy reporter who is writing a feature on her for a genteel Southern ladies’ magazine.

Cordelia drafts Meg to accompany her and Deacon Washington of the New Life Baptist Church – and the reporter, alas – in their search for a long-lost African-American cemetery. Unfortunately what they discover is not an ancient cemetery but a fresh corpse. Can Meg protect her grandmother – and Caerphilly – from the reporter who seems to see the worst in everything . . . and help crack the case before the killer finds another victim?