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Five Golden Wings

by Donna Andrews · Meg Langslow, Book 38

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Published Tuesday 14 October 2025Kindle Edition · Minotaur Books · 297 pages
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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 Caerphilly for their Christmas destination wedding . . on the same day, in the same venues. But while they’re cousins they’re also lifelong enemies. Mother’s efforts to keep the peace are wearing her down, and the battling brides (and their mothers) are making the holiday season miserable for everyone. So Meg steps in to keep the peace. And it was going badly even before she stumbles over the murdered body of the wedding photographer.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of suspects. The photographer has been hitting on many of the guests, bridesmaids . . . possibly even one or both of the brides. He’s also been slinking about and taking candid shots that are unflattering, embarrassing . . . occasionally even incriminating.

Can Meg help the local police nab the killer in time for the weddings to go on as planned? Unless, of course, the killer was one of the brides or grooms, in which case she needs to identify the killer in time to reveal their identity when she hears those fateful words, “If any of you can show just cause why they may not lawfully be married, speak now; or else forever hold your peace.”

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The series in order

Meg Langslow

This is Book 38 of 39. Every book in the series has its own page.

1Murder with PeacocksPublished 19972Murder With PuffinsPublished 20003Revenge of the Wrought-Iron FlamingosPublished 20014Crouching Buzzard, Leaping LoonPublished 20025We’ll Always Have ParrotsPublished 20036Owls Well That Ends WellPublished 20057No Nest for the WicketPublished 20068The Penguin Who Knew Too MuchPublished 20079Cockatiels at SevenPublished 200810Six Geese A-SlayingPublished 200811Swan for the MoneyPublished 200912Stork Raving MadPublished 201013The Real MacawPublished 201114Some Like It HawkPublished 201215The Hen of the BaskervillesPublished 201316Duck the HallsPublished 201317The Good, the Bad, and the EmusPublished 201418The Nightingale Before ChristmasPublished 201419Lord of the WingsPublished 201520Die Like an EaglePublished 201621Gone GullPublished 201722How the Finch Stole Christmas!Published 201723Toucan Keep a SecretPublished 201824Lark! The Herald Angels SingPublished 201825Terns of EndearmentPublished 201926Owl Be Home for ChristmasPublished 201927The Falcon Always Wings TwicePublished 202028The Gift of the MagpiePublished 202029Murder Most FowlPublished 202130The Twelve Jays of ChristmasPublished 202131Round Up the Usual PeacocksPublished 202232Dashing Through the SnowbirdsPublished 202233Birder, She WrotePublished 202334Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!Published 202335Between a Flock and a Hard PlacePublished 202436Rockin’ Around the ChickadeePublished 202437For Duck’s SakePublished 202538Five Golden WingsYou are here40Jay to the World: A Meg Langslow MysteryComing 2026