Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 1/2/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Book 3 of the Meg Langslow series finds ornamental blacksmith Meg and her boyfriend Michael participating in the reenactment of the siege of Yorktown in full period costume, and running a booth selling bayonets, buckles and other metalworks, including a dozen neon pink wrought-iron flamingos that Meg has stashed out of sight as they are not of the colonial period. But tensions and rivalries are simmering everywhere, and when an unscrupulous businessman is killed with a flamingo, Meg has to solve the mystery before the incompetent new homicide detective decides to pin the murder on her or one of her friends or family. Trying to expose a killer while avoiding Michael's mother who is in charge of the event and has made herself a terror browbeating everyone into maintaining the authenticity of the period makes an amusing and entertaining background for a solid mystery.

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