Murder Most Fowl is the twenty-ninth (!) entry in the Meg Langslow Mystery series by Donna Andrews. It's a busy summer for Meg and her family. Hubby is directing a production of MacBeth and the cast and crew are lodging in their house. Also on the grounds is a group of 'reenactors' trying to create an authentic military camp of that time period (a line was drawn at open trench latrines, however)! Not everyone is nice, or well liked, including a young man with a camera, and his showing of what he has filmed, well, let's just say it does not go over well. When his body is found, there are lots of possible murderers! There's vandalism, and a strange book that doesn't belong found in the library, and three witches casting evil spells, a poorly shorn sheep (who finds safety with the llamas) and Pomeranians. Don't forget about them! Just a fun read, with a wonderful final scene!

I rarely read fiction, just fiction ... it's usually a mystery, or mystery/historical type writing, so This is Happiness, by Niall Williams, was a change for me. It was pretty darn good! It's set in a small town in Ireland, where it rains. Often. I loved the descriptions of the different kinds of rain and how the residents are not surprised that it is raining, but that it stops! (And five days of clear skies are too much). Narrator is an old man looking back on the year he was 17 and the town finally got electricity. It will be a huge change for this small town that hasn't seen change in hundreds of years. Read carefully, the writing is elegant. Thanks go to Tall Reader for the loan.

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