Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

ISBN: 0312277318

Title: Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

Author: Donna Andrews

KDL Description:

Operating the switchboard at the business office shared by her brother’s computer-game company and six unusual therapists, Meg Langslow finds herself drawn into a mystery when the company’s practical joker is murdered on top of a mail cart.

Amazon Description:

Why is Meg Langslow working the switchboard (temporarily, she hopes) in offices shared by her brother’s computer-game company, Mutant Wizards, and six psychotherapists with divergent subspecialties? Maybe it’s because real temps don’t seem to last more than an hour or so-thanks to the one-winged buz-zard who lives on a perch in the reception area? Some-times Meg feels preordained, if not doomed, to be on hand when murder happens. When the company’s practical joker, who’s been lying on top of the mailcart all morning pre-tending to have been murdered, rolls by one more time really dead, it is Meg who finds him. The mix of the wacky Lang-slows, the Mutant nerds, the nutty therapists, and Andrews’s delicious wit make Meg’s new adventure a laugh-aloud delight.