Terns of Endearment: A Meg Langslow Mystery

by Donna Andrews

Overview

Terns of Endearment is a new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews.

All aboard…for murder?

Meg Langslow is only too pleased to join her grandfather on a cruise ship vacation dedicated to lectures on birds and other environmental topics. But Meg’s vacation quickly becomes a nightmare when the ship breaks down and needs repairs…in the Bermuda Triangle. Ahoy!

If that, plus nursing an injured tern back to health, isn’t enough, a woman has jumped ship—leaving behind a note that reveals alarming details about her fellow writing-retreat members who are still onboard—and Meg’s grandfather’s assistant, Trevor, is now missing too. Suspicions are flying all around. . . Soon it’s up to Meg to swab the decks and solve this killer case before more bodies are swept to shore.

“Uproarious.”—Criminal Element

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250427366
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Meg Langslow Series , #25
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. She has written over 30 books in the Meg Langslow mystery series.

Editorial Reviews

"Andrews smoothly combines a clever plot with distinctive and endearing characters. Cozy fans will wish this long-running series never ends." —Publishers Weekly

"As always, Andrews laces this entertaining whodunit with wit, a fine storyline and characters we've come to know and love." —Richmond Times-Dispatch on The Real Macaw

"With colorful characters, a solid mystery and laugh-out-loud moments . . . readers will have a rollicking good time." —RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on Swan for the Money

“With its well-spun plots and distinctive characters, Andrews’s amusing avian-named series shows no signs of growing stale.” —Publishers Weekly on Die Like an Eagle

“Meg grows more endearing with each book.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch on Stork Raving Mad

From the Publisher

2019-05-13
Meg Langslow's maiden sea voyage, a trip to Bermuda, rapidly turns into the cruise from hell.

Of all the offers he's had to lecture aboard cruise ships, naturalist J. Montgomery Blake has selected Pastime Lines because they'll give him a steeply discounted rate for all the companions traveling with him. For Monty, that means his daughter and son-in-law; their children, Meg and Rob; Meg's husband; Rob's fiancee; Meg's aunt and two cousins, herbalist Rose Noire and Caerphilly County Deputy Horace Hollingsworth; and zoologist Caroline Willner. Within 24 hours, they're all sorry they ever booked passage on the Pastime Wanderer. Trevor Ponsonby-West, Monty's indispensable assistant, takes to his cabin, then vanishes as completely as if he'd never boarded. Desiree St. Christophe, the aging doyenne of ravished-virgin romances, leaps into the Atlantic the first night at sea, provoking not a single tear from Angie Weyburn, Kate Trevanian, Tish Gregory, and Janet Costello, four other writers convinced that Desiree's plagiarism suit drove their friend Nancy Goreham to suicide five months ago. The Wanderer's navigation system goes on the fritz, and repairs require cutting all electrical power to the rest of the ship. Most of the thinly stretched crew, and many of the passengers, are stricken with food poisoning. And although there's no way anybody's going to find Desiree's body, Meg and her father's search of her cabin discloses a quite different corpse. As the Wanderer sits becalmed at the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, giving Rose Noire the willies, Meg's mother rouses the passengers with a stirring speech: "Many of us are dissatisfied with the current state of affairs on board the ship."

The Poseidon Adventure with a laugh track that drowns out most of the individual characters' voices.

Kirkus Reviews