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Title: How the Finch Stole Christmas!
Author: Donna Andrews
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-25-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
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.
When a famous, although slightly over-the-hill, actor comes to town to play the starring role of Scrooge, no one expects that he's bringing a lot of baggage and enemies with him.
Like Andrews' previous Christmas books Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, How the Finch Stole Christmas! is guaranteed to put the ho ho hos into the holidays of cozy lovers everywhere with its gut-bustingly funny mystery.
Members Reviews:
O Gorgeous Bird
I look forward to each new Donna Andrews' book; Meg, Mom, etc. all have become part of the family. This one left me feeling that something, that I couldn't quite put my finger on, was missing.
I would give it 7 or 8 stars if I could
I love Meg and family. Really enjoyed this visit with the whole clan. Great mystery.
Best yet
Normally a delightful series, but has been becoming predictable. However, this one is terrific. May be the best one ever. Great plot, quirky characters, and interesting conclusion. If you only read one of these titles. Then this is definitely the one. Great narrator as well.
Murder amid theater and an animal rescue
Donna Andrews comes back strong with How the Finch Stole Christmas!, the 22nd book in Andrews's Meg Langslow series. In the previous Christmas books in this series, we have seen Michael, Meg's theater professor husband, perform a dramatic recitation of A Christmas Carol to raise money for the local book bank. This year, he has expanded the performance into a complete cast production that will raise money for many of the programs run by the city of Caerphilly, VA throughout the year. To create an even bigger draw than having Michael star as Scrooge, the city has hired a former star who hasn't had a successful acting job in ages due to his alcoholism. Michael soon gets really upset at the town because they let Haver, the actor, insert language into his contract that makes it virtually impossible to fire Haver, despite the fact that he misses rehearsals, hasn't learned his lines, and shows up to what rehearsals he does deem worthy of attending quite drunk. With Caerphilly's being such a small rural community where half the population is related to the Shiffley family, when Mayor Randall Shiffley orders that no one in the town allow Haver access to alcohol, everyone complies. Or almost everyone. Even more, the manager of the Caerphilly Inn goes through Haver's things and removes any alcohol the actor has gotten his hands on. But where has Haver been getting his alcohol?
Thus, in the hopes of locating Haver's "bootlegger," Meg tails after him to an almost-hidden house in the outskirts of town, where she sees him get what looks like a case of wine and not just a bottle. After waiting for Haver to get safely away, Meg prepares to return to town when she hears a growling. Concerned that she has just heard a tiger, Meg creeps up to the house, where she is alarmed to see an emaciated tiger, along with a lot of finches and litters of golden retriever puppies with their mothers in what obviously is a puppy mill.
