After reading Murder with Puffins, I was excited to read another bird mystery! I felt like it was going to be safe to read this one even though it was a huge gap (Puffins was the second in the series), so let's see if I was right.
Christmas is near, and Meg's house is full of relatives and Canadians. They're staying in Caerphilly to work with Mutant Wizards on a computer program to connect DNA family members. One of the men is a complete jerk, and he eventually turns up dead.
And I do mean eventually. I'm on Kindle, so I gauge in percentage. It took until 35% for someone to die. That's crazy for a mystery novel. Up to that point, I was reading about skating rinks, Christmas decorations, and putting up bird feeders. It was ridiculous.
Even after the murder, it seemed to be a subplot to the story. I couldn't really tell you what the main plot would've been. It seemed like it was a book of subplots. I probably read more about the pregnant cat and the software problem than solving the murder.
When I read Murder with Puffins, I felt like I would be able to read these out of order without an issue. I might have to rethink that opinion. In that book, Michael was Meg's boyfriend. This book had me a bit lost at first. She was married to Michael and had twins, and their names were just thrown about willy nilly. I picked up on it pretty quickly, but there were tons of family in there, and I'm wondering if some of the other characters were showing up in previous books.
One other issue I had with this book was Meg. She wasn't a great heroine. She was always eavesdropping or complaining. She was even petty about the pregnant cat when people didn't have nefarious intentions. Meg was just irritating. Overall, there wasn't enough mystery in this for me. It was pushed to the backburner, and for me, that's not my kind of mystery.
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