A review by staceylynn42
The Good, the Bad, and the Emus by Donna Andrews
2.0
Not one of my faves in this series. I don't actively dislike it like "Owls Well", but it's basically just an adequate mystery.
We begin with the mystery of what happened to Meg's long lost grandmother. Her grandfather, Monty Blake, had hired a PI to find her and he discovered she, Cordelia, died in a fire a few months back, but her cousin claims it was murder & ropes Meg & the PI into investigating.
They see an emu while they are in the area. Blake has heard there are a bunch of feral emus there & had a request to help round them up. This leads Blake to getting up an expedition to do so. The first night there someone drinks whiskey meant for him and is poisoned.
Who is trying to poison Blake & what really happened to Cordelia?
I saw the answer to one of them almost right away. The other took a bit longer.
Once Meg learned to say no to those around her she seems to have developed the idea that she is the only one possessing common sense among her friends. This is not an appealing trait.
I guess I don't like this one that much because I didn't find either mystery all that compelling. The family was there,the humor was there, but the mystery didn't do it for me
We begin with the mystery of what happened to Meg's long lost grandmother. Her grandfather, Monty Blake, had hired a PI to find her and he discovered she, Cordelia, died in a fire a few months back, but her cousin claims it was murder & ropes Meg & the PI into investigating.
They see an emu while they are in the area. Blake has heard there are a bunch of feral emus there & had a request to help round them up. This leads Blake to getting up an expedition to do so. The first night there someone drinks whiskey meant for him and is poisoned.
Who is trying to poison Blake & what really happened to Cordelia?
I saw the answer to one of them almost right away. The other took a bit longer.
Once Meg learned to say no to those around her she seems to have developed the idea that she is the only one possessing common sense among her friends. This is not an appealing trait.
I guess I don't like this one that much because I didn't find either mystery all that compelling. The family was there,the humor was there, but the mystery didn't do it for me