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Meg Langslow Books in Order

by Donna AndrewsMystery, Thriller & Suspense

39 books so far (book 40 is due November 10, 2026). They run from Murder with Peacocks (2018) to Probable Caws (2026). Rated 4.6 across 10,751 listener reviews.

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  1. Murder with Peacocks

    Book 1 2018 4.3 (749)

    Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. In her small Virginia hometown, she's the maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones - each of whom has dumped the planning in her hands.

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  2. Murder with Puffins

    Book 2 2019 4.5 (406)

    Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, are searching for some romantic alone time. She knows the perfect place for a private getaway: her aunt's cottage on the tiny island of Monhegan.

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  3. Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

    Book 3 2019 4.6 (337)

    Yorktown, Virginia, is reliving its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a reenactment of the battle and a craft fair.

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  4. Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

    Book 4 2003 4.4 (576)

    The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews.

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  5. We'll Always Have Parrots

    Book 5 2004 4.4 (506)

    Parrots are flying loose all over a convention hotel, making trouble and imitating everything everyone says. Monkeys are swinging from chandelier to chandelier.

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  6. Owls Well That Ends Well

    Book 6 2005 4.7 (323)

    Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket.

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  7. No Nest for the Wicket

    Book 7 2006 4.7 (304)

    The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiancé, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an extreme croquet field....

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  8. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much

    Book 8 2007 4.8 (273)

    Maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia? Finding a body down there is somewhat more likely for Meg.

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  9. Cockatiels at Seven

    Book 9 2008 4.7 (255)

    When her old friend Karen drops by with her two-year-old son, Meg Langslow reluctantly agrees to babysit. But when night falls, the toddler is still in residence, and Karen isn't answering her phone.

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  10. Six Geese a-Slaying

    Book 10 2008 4.7 (298)

    Meg Langslow and Michael's house is serving as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is the 12 Days of Christmas, and it features 12 drummers from the school's marching band, 11 bagpipers, 10 leaping…

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  11. Swan for the Money

    Book 11 2018 4.7 (258)

    Meg Langslow's eccentric parents have a new hobby: growing roses and entering them in highly competitive shows. Dad's gardening skill and Mother's gift for selecting and arranging the blossoms should make them an unbeatable team - and Meg…

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  12. Stork Raving Mad

    Book 12 2018 4.8 (266)

    Meg Langslow is pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind having a houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, who has agreed to come to town for the…

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  13. The Real Macaw

    Book 13 2018 4.7 (274)

    During an early morning feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals - cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs, and a stunningly…

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  14. Some Like it Hawk

    Book 14 2012 4.7 (319)

    Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at Caerphilly Days, a festival inspired by the town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail"....

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  15. The Hen of the Baskervilles

    Book 15 2013 4.7 (329)

    Meg Langslow is helping organize the Virginia Un-Fair, Caerphilly's entry in the race to replace the old state fair. While patrolling the fairgrounds, Meg runs into her friend Molly....

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  16. Duck the Halls

    Book 16 2013 4.7 (320)

    A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in the choir loft....

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  17. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus

    Book 17 2014 4.7 (294)

    Meg's paternal grandfather has hired Stanley Denton to find her grandmother Cordelia. Stanley has found a trail to his long-lost love in a small town a short drive away....

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  18. The Nightingale Before Christmas

    Book 18 2014 4.7 (298)

    As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house - each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour.

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  19. Lord of the Wings

    Book 19 2015 4.7 (304)

    It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's…

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  20. Die Like an Eagle

    Book 20 2016 4.7 (283)

    Meg is Team Mom, and Michael is coach of their twin sons' youth baseball team, the Caerphilly Eagles. Meg tangles with Biff Brown, the petty, vindictive league head....

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  21. Gone Gull

    Book 21 2017 4.7 (254)

    Meg Langslow is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, which threaten to ruin the newly opened center's reputation.

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  22. How the Finch Stole Christmas!

    Book 22 2017 4.7 (291)

    Meg's husband has decided to escalate his one-man show of Dickens's A Christmas Carol into a full-scale production with a large cast including their sons Jamie and Josh as Tiny Tim and young Scrooge and Meg helping as stage manager.

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  23. Toucan Keep a Secret

    Book 23 2018 4.7 (230)

    Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal locking up after an event and checking on the toucan that Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. After hearing a hammering in the crypt, Meg finds an elderly parishioner lying dead on the floor.

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  24. Lark! The Herald Angels Sing

    Book 24 2018 4.7 (273)

    It's Christmas time in Caerphilly, and the town is preparing for their live nativity. During rehearsals, Meg discovers a real baby in the manger, with a note attached that says the mother is leaving the baby girl there so that her father…

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  25. Terns of Endearment

    Book 25 2019 4.7 (237)

    Meg's grandfather has been booked to give lectures on a cruise as part of the education/entertainment itinerary, and he's arranged for a passel of family members to join him.

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  26. Owl Be Home for Christmas

    Book 26 2019 4.6 (303)

    While trapped by a snowstorm at a conference, a visiting ornithologist is murdered. Now, nobody may make it home in time for Christmas...unless Meg comes to the rescue...

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  27. The Falcon Always Wings Twice

    Book 27 2020 4.7 (227)

    A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment.

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  28. The Gift of the Magpie

    Book 28 2020 4.7 (251)

    ** An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production. ** New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe…

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  29. Murder Most Fowl

    Book 29 2021 4.7 (233)

    A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in Murder Most Fowl, the next installment from Donna Andrews, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon Always Wings Twice.

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  30. The Twelve Jays of Christmas

    Book 30 2021 4.8 (233)

    The cast of Donna Andrews’ New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an unforgettable holiday story in The Twelve Jays of Christmas.

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  31. Round Up the Usual Peacocks

    Book 31 2022 4.8 (232)

    New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews first introduced us to Meg Langslow as a crime-solving bridesmaid. In her 31st mystery, Round Up the Usual Peacocks, Meg returns to her roots, juggling cold cases and wedding guests.

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  32. Dashing Through the Snowbirds

    Book 32 2022 4.8 (215)

    Dashing Through the Snowbirds is the next merry installment of Donna Andrews's New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series.

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  33. Birder, She Wrote

    Book 33 2023 4.7 (101)

    on The Falcon Always Wings Twice Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael’s latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at...

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  34. Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!

    Book 34 2023 4.7 (135)

    Meg has been roped...

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  35. Between a Flock and a Hard Place

    Book 35 2024 4.8 (130)

    on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner) Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the...

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  36. Rockin' Around the Chickadee

    Book 36 2024 4.7 (130)

    on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner) Bells are ringing and alarms are sounding in Donna Andrews' latest cheery addition in the New...

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  37. For Duck's Sake

    Book 37 2025 4.9 (100)

    Donna Andrews returns with her latest charming addition to the bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series. Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are…

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  38. Five Golden Wings

    Book 38 2025 4.8 (124)

    Readers will flock to NYT bestselling author Donna Andrews' latest installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Two of Meg’s cousins, members of Mother’s vast Hollingsworth clan, are getting married, and both have chosen…

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  39. Probable Caws

    Book 39 2026 4.9 (80)

    Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

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  40. Jay to the World

    Book 40 Out November 10, 2026

    There's merry mischief aplenty in Donna Andrews' latest avian-themed Christmas mystery! "Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —Kirkus Reviews on The…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Meg Langslow is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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