This book was so enjoyable, I just love Meg and her wacky family!! This is another laugh out loud wild romp, with Meg, I have fallen in love with these characters, the mystery was fun and entertaining!! The storyline was well written and kept me hooked from star to finish!! I highly recommend this book to everyone!!

This was a great edition to the series. So glad that Ms. Andrews writes a Christmas time book for the series each year.

Donna Andrews did it again! Her latest Meg Langslow installment, Rockin’ Around the Chickadee was another hilarious and un-put-downable book. This page-turner had Meg’s sister-in-law, Delaney, on bed-rest for her high-risk pregnancy during the holidays. Meg’s grandmother, Cordelia, decided to host her conference on educating others on the plight of the wrongly accused and convicted.

As usual, the whole Langslow and Hollingsworth clans are around to help with all of the craziness that is going down that holiday season, from trying to keep Delaney from going stir-crazy to setting up meeting rooms at the Caerphilly Inn for the conference.

Unfortunately, a well-known internet troll appears at the conference and begins to stir up trouble. The troll interrupts every event that he can and even attacks a service animal for attention.

When Rose Noire stumbles over a dead body while doing a morning feeding of the animals that live at Meg’s house, she is understandably shaken up, but everyone trips over themselves to keep Delaney calm…and safe.

Can the Langslow family and Caerphilly’s finest catch the murderer before they strike again? Will this dim the town’s holiday cheer?

This cozy mystery is cute, funny, and super engrossing! I couldn’t stop when I started reading it. I can’t wait for Meg’s next adventure!

Thank you So much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press’ Minotaur Books for this ARC!!!

The annual Christmas mystery from Donna Andrews takes place at the Caerphilly Inn during a conference organized by Meg's grandmother. The conference attendees are discussing cases of wrongfully convicted individuals and how to seek exoneration, but one attendee believes there is no such thing as an innocent person and makes his opinion known in the most obnoxious way possible. So when his corpse is discovered, the list of suspects is long. Meg works with her family and the local police to find the killer. The annual Christmas mystery is like slipping on an old sweater - nothing new or groundbreaking, but cozy and familiar and a quick read. Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the eARC.

I always look forward to Donna Andrews Christmas release of her delightful Meg Langslow newest books and Rockin' Around the Chickadee, the 36th book in this fun series met my expectations wonderfully. Since Rob's wife is bed bound in the farmhouse library near the end of her pregnancy, Meg's dad insists that they not open the house to the usual holiday invasion of family, but that limit doesn't stop the wonderful holiday feel as her mother decorates with all her usual style, we get to ride around with Meg and friends to enjoy the unique decorations, and our favorite choir entertains us several times. Unfortunately, the conference Cordelia and Kevin have arranged for those interested in Operation Innocence is visited by a villain who makes Scrooge look kind and someone decides he doesn't deserve to live. The conference offers enough suspects to make the Chief head spin, but Meg and Kevin are more than willing to help with police spread thin between the investigation and the usual holiday issues and Meg's now teenaged boys and the Chief's grandson are more than willing to help out. Of course, the adults limit their efforts, but they manage to have a good time with what they get to do. Once the evil man is gone, most of the suspects are quite likeable which makes finding the murder harder than usual, but Meg and company are more than up to the job.
Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press/Minotaur books for allowing me to read and review an ARC of the wonderful Rockin' Around the Chickadee. Donna Andrews has brightened my summer with this charming Christmas mystery.
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Rockin' Around the Chickadee by Donna Andrews

Rockin' Around the Chickadee is the lastest volume in Donna Andrew's popular Meg Langslow mystery series.

Set during the Christmas season Meg along with other friends and family are involved with Presumed Innocent - a conference organized by Meg's grandmother to assist with those wrongfully convicted. Unfortunately, the conference is inflicted with a true crime podcaster and troll who after many bad acts is thrown out of the conference only to turn up the following morning murdered in Meg's backyard. Meg and her cohorts are on the trail of the killer all while trying to keep the household calm for the extremely pregnant Delany - Meg's sister-in-law who is due any day.
Another great edition to the Meg Langslow series.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this work in exchange for an unbiased review.

Another December, another murder for Caerphilly amateur sleuth Meg Langslow. Like many of the previous holiday editions of this series, this one takes place once again at "The Inn". In town this season are all of the usual extended family members who have come to participate in a conference centered on the legal profession.

While all the relatives one has come to expect in this series are present in the story, they are not all featured equally or prominently. The years keep advancing, yet Dr. Burke is as healthy as ever and Cordelia remains a force of nature, unfortunately this translates to very little development for the recurring characters across the series. One development that appeared on the scene quickly-a soon to be niece or nephew from Rob & Delaney.

Despite the cursory check-ins on the family, this book pushed them mostly to the side to introduce characters new in town for this editions murder-mystery. The victim was introduced quickly and the murderer just as expediently. As is the case with most of these stories the solutions all worked themselves out in the end.

If you are looking to reenter Meg's world this will do that. But it is not exactly the cozy holiday mystery with the Langslow-Hollingsworth clan I had anticipated.

Meg Lanslow is ready to celebrate the holidays in a quiet fashion, since her sister in law is due for her baby any time.
While helping her grandmother with a true crime event, where people can try to find help for the wrongfully accused, they come upon a person who is against the whole thing. He makes his opinions known and finds himself removed from the event and the venue. What he doesn't expect is that someone is going to silence him, permanently.
Join Meg and this wonderful cast of characters in the investigation, it's sure to delight all readers.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for selecting me to read an advanced copy of this book.

Through NetGalley, I received a free copy of ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHICKADEE (Book 36 of the Meg Langslow mystery series) by Donna Andrews in exchange for an honest review. Meg’s grandmother Cordelia has organized a conference at a local inn for those interested in the exoneration of innocents convicted of crimes. Though most of the attendees are interested in freeing friends or family members, some attendees are true crime enthusiasts, and some are trolls actively working to thwart justice. One such character’s actions spiral beyond the pale and result in him being kicked out of the inn and the conference. When his body is found the next morning, there are no shortage of suspects at the conference. Finding his killer will take a concerted effort of the usual team and a Christmas miracle.

I liked the book and enjoy the series. I recommend this book to fans of the series and the series to fans of cozy murder mysteries surrounding small towns, small venues, extensive families, birds, animals, and quirky characters.

Another excellent and amusing mystery by Donna Andrews. I don't know how she does it, but Donna Andrews manages to continuously write new books in this long running series that remain fresh, with plausible characters and crimes. Even though the location may be the same, there is more than enough new to keep the book interesting, and the mystery one that you don't want to stop reading. I read this book in one sitting.

At a conference dedicated to finding ways to overturn wrongful convictions organized by Meg's grandmother, an internet podcaster who is a born troll makes a major nuisance of himself, and gets kicked out of both the conference and the hotel. Being hated by a number of the people attending makes for a very large suspect pool when he turns up dead. Meg and friends are their usual competent selves making for an excellent read.

Another super fun entry in Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow series.
This time it is a Christmas setting.
All the family members are involved in the murder and Meg saves the day.
Recommended for fans of the series.