Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 1/2/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Our intrepid blacksmith artist Meg Langslow has just bought a house with her boyfriend Michael. It's a major fixer-upper, though, and crammed full of junk as the previous owner was a pack rat, so Meg has decided to hold the mother of all yard sales, and invited other family members to join as well as help with the organization. Naturally (for our heroine) a body is found in an old trunk and the victim is an antiques dealer that has a reputation for being shady and a cheat, which means there are suspects galore. Unfortunately the police have arrested one of Michael's friends, a professor at the university who is key to Michael's search for academic tenure. And so once again Meg has an excuse to snoop and conduct her own investigation, which she manages with aplomb in the midst of the chaos of a yard sale of epic proportions, the local conservationists' attempts to protect the endangered barn owls on their property, the escaped sheep from the neighboring farm, her extended family's eccentricities, and her mother's attempts to decorate her house, guaranteeing the humor amidst the mystery that Donna Andrews has become well known for.

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