Birder, She Wrote by Donna Andrews
- Cozy Cove Books
- Apr 4, 2023
- 2 min read
Available August 1, 2023
Rating: 5 hummingbirds

Meg has been busy dealing with the NIMBYs (Not-In-My-Backyards). This is a group I'm very familiar with, neighbors who plow under land that's been farmed for hundreds of years, plunk down a McMansion, and then spend the rest of their days complaining about everything that was already there when they bought the land. When one of them turns up dead in the middle of the woods no one is exactly grief-stricken and the list of people who might have wanted to put an extra hole or two in the man grows by the day. But have no fear! Meg's massive extended family (both two-legged and four-legged) are on the case!
When I started this series I got hooked really fast and I binge read it 4-6 books at a time. It's kind of torture now waiting for each book to come out. Fortunately Andrews is pretty prolific so I don't have to wait too long. This series is one that kind of breaks the rules a bit for me. Lots of characters, convenient characters who just happen to be experts in whatever is needed at that moment, animals who pull off feats that normal pets couldn't accomplish. Andrews has done such an amazing job of developing this series that none of these things are a negative in this series. Yes, there are tons of characters, but they've been introduced over the course of many books and they're all so unique that it's not at all difficult to differentiate between them and all the talents that they have have evolved from passions that they've pursed over the course of the series. The pets have wild skills but they're so stinking cute!
This series has been one of my very favorite since I started reading it and it continues to be really good, even after over 30 books. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading cozies!
Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.
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