Book obtained from: Library, audio
book [2014]
Description: Meg
Langslow, the protagonist, helps a private investigator, Stanley,
find her long lost grandmother, and helps her grandfather coordinate
a round-up of emus escaped from an abandoned farm.
Plot: Meg and Stanley
learn the long lost grandmother is recently deceased, but promise a
cousin to find the grandmother's killer. While searching for the
killer, Meg helps her grandfather organize a large group to round up
the feral emus and transport them to a sanctuary.
Characterization: The
characters are reasonably well developed. Meg's grandfather is a
hoot. I'm a bit disappointed in Meg's husband Michael, who seems to
be relevant to the story only as a babysitter for the kids.
Setting: A small town in
Virginia. The descriptions were good altho sometimes a
tad over-described, I was able to picture every scene.
Other: Sometimes I'm
completely surprised by the whodunnit in a mystery, altho most of the
time I can figure it out about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way thru the book.
For this story, I had it figured out before the half-way point.
However, this was NOT disappointing for this story. It was actually
kind of exciting that I “got it right.”
Overall: The books in
this series are sometimes a little slow paced, but not so slow that I
would stop reading.
Grade: B+
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