Meg is Mistress of the Revels, the person responsible for organising and managing the Christmas Holiday Parade for the small town of Caerphilly, Virginia, an event that features people in costume for each of the twelve days of Christmas, plus camel-riding Magi, Diwali Elephants and Santa. Everything you need to know is on the page and there weren't any obvious spoilers for previous books. There was no downside to not having read the intervening seven books. Recently, I've seen a lot of people saying that the Meg Langslow Christmas mysteries have become part of their Christmas reading tradition, so I decided to dive back in at the tenth book, 'Six Geese A-Slaying' which is the first Christmas Mystery.

The second book, 'A Murder With Puffins' was an éclair of a book: light, sweet and quickly gone, that didn't leave me with an appetite for more of the series. I really enjoyed the first book in the series, 'Murder With Peacocks' where Meg Langslow stumbled into solving a murder while trying to organise a series of family weddings. It's been a few years since I read a Meg Langslow book. I really must touch base with Meg more often! The mystery is also an exceptional whodunit, but of course, the holiday theme adds just a dash of extra magic and charm to this installment in the series.

The holiday parade was outrageously madcap, and as always, the characters are quirky and comical. Turns out, I made the right decision! Meg is, as always, hysterically funny. I realized my mistake immediately, and corrected the issue, but was a little disappointed when I realized the next book in line had a Christmas theme because after my holiday reading marathon in December, I’m pretty burned out on Christmas stories.īut because it has been a long time since I touched base with Meg, and because I needed to read a book that was sure to make me laugh, I decided to suck it up. With so many installments, I got a little mixed up on which book came next in the series and accidentally skipped this one. Naturally, things go horribly awry when ‘Santa’ is found murdered!!Īs you know, I am slowly reading through this series, in order. The theme for the parade is The Twelve Days of Christmas, and like all good holiday parades, Santa will be there to hear the children’s Christmas requests. Meg has volunteered to organize the Christmas parade-a chore she didn’t realize required so much effort.

Six Geese A Slaying by Donna Andrews is a 2008 Minotaur publication.

Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews