Meg juggles twins, murder, and a back-talking bird in the next side-splittingly funny installment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling series. During a 2am 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 foul-mouthed macaw. She soon learns that financial woes have caused the local animal shelter to repeal its no-kill policy.

Her kindhearted father, her zoologist grandfather, and other like-minded citizens have stolen all the shelter's animals, both as a gesture of protest and to protect them until the hated policy can be repealed. But the volunteer who was to transport the animals to new homes has been murdered. Was it the victim's tangled love life that drove someone to murder? Or the dark secrets behind local politics? And will Meg ever succeed in finding homes for all the animals that have landed in her life?

Full of the hilarious shenanigans – avian as well as human – that have come to surround Meg and her eccentric band of friends and family, the latest from the one and only Donna Andrews will have you laughing until the very last page: it's The Real Macaw!

Meg wakes to find that her father and grandfather have emptied the local animal shelter and all the animals are in her living room, including a foul-mouthed macaw. When the man who was to ferry the animals to safety - the local shelter was repealing its no-kill policy - turns up dead, Meg find herself right in the middle of saving the animals, her farm and the town from debt collectors set to foreclose on the county’s buildings as well as  the countryside, including her home, from developers.

I really enjoy both Meg and her eccentric family. The weird adventures they get in to seem so plausible when you consider her family.  The entries in this series are quick and enjoyable reads, often with laugh-out-loud moments.  I suspected the murderer but only a bit before Meg figured it out. Highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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