When I saw this book at HPB, I knew I had to have it. I love birds, so seeing it was an instant purchase. It was $2. I knew absolutely nothing about it. I just saw "murder" and "puffins," and I was on board. Even though I was burned recently with the absence of owls in An Owl Too Many, this was a totally different author. And I couldn't resist the cute puffin.
Meg has come to the small island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine to spend some quiet time away from it all with her boyfriend, Michael. To her dismay, most of her family appears to be on the island as well. To top it off, a hurricane has picked the island to torment, and the local curmudgeon ends up dead.
The murderer is trapped on the island, and it seems that everyone is a suspect, including Meg's father and her aunt. Meg has something of a reputation (according to her father) as a detective, since she recently solved another mystery. That happened in book 1, Murder with Peacocks.
I really enjoyed this book! The writing was easy to follow, and there were actual puffins! Okay, so the entire book isn't cover to cover puffins, and one of the puffins isn't in the best shape (as in it's dead), but I learned facts about puffins that I didn't know, and it wasn't shoehorned in there in an irritating way.
In total, there are apparently 37 books in this series. That was a bit of a downer at first, but I did a bit of research, and it doesn't look like they have to be read in order. I added the author's name to my watch list on eReaderIQ, so hopefully, I'll be able to get more bird-related murders solved in the future! Good Book!
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