A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series
in Murder Most Fowl, the next installment from Donna Andrews,
award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon Always
Wings Twice.
Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a
production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying
spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp
Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the
real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic
medieval Scottish military camp.
And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging
around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing
of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass or offend
just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly surprised to
find that someone has murdered him.
But who? Some people's motives were obvious from the footage: the couple
whose affair was revealed . . . the bombastic leader of the reenactors,
who could be facing years in prison if the evidence from the video helps
convict him of sheep stealing . . . the actress who's desperately trying
to downplay a health issue that could cost her the role of her life.
Other motives are only hinted at--did the filmmaker have other footage
that would reveal why one of the actors is behaving so furtively?
Unfortunately, whoever murdered Goodwin also destroyed all the
electronic devices on which his video was stored. So Caerphilly's chief
of police--and Meg--must rediscover the same secrets the filmmaker did
if they want to catch a killer.
