History YMMV / MegLangslowMysteries

* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: The formulaic use of Meg (or, on rare occasions, someone else she has to save) somehow ending up AloneWithThePsycho right when the case is solved and only surviving due to her ActionGirl skills or the intervention of another character can get boring after a while. The only proper SummationGathering so far is in the first book, and even then, Meg gets taken hostage as the killer tries to escape, while there has yet to be a SympatheticMurderer sympathetic enough to instantly give up rather than at least consider killing again to stay out of prison.

* AuthorTract: Several books have a journalist character who is obnoxious, self-centered, and only interested in telling negative stories, scorning anything positive or uplifting as not real journalism. It's so consistent that it makes the reader wonder just what a journalist did to the author to earn such hatred.
* HarsherInHindsight: ''Terns of Endearment'' was published in mid-2019, and involves several members of Meg's family on a truly disastrous cruise ship voyage - it turns out the major cause of this is an outbreak of horrific food poisoning among the crew (because the management were such penny-pinchers that it forced the crew to eat food past its expiry date that they couldn't serve passengers); the description of the small, cramped crew quarters stuffed to the gill with sick people borders on NightmareFuel. Less than a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to several cruise ships being revealed as either having the virus on board, careless passengers let off the ship without testing causing new outbreak clusters, or even cruise ship passengers being forced to stay on ships with resources getting low because countries won't allow them to dock due to the virus.

** ''Let It Crow'' introduces Alec, a blacksmith whom Meg's mentor Faulk introduced her to and wanted her to teach. This could have set up an interesting MasterApprenticeChain (especially since Meg rarely, if ever, gets to be a mentor figure in the series to anyone but youths) and given Meg some unique moments watching her protégé struggle at his trade and be a murder suspect ([[spoiler:whether or not he was guilty, like he is in that book]]), but it's quickly revealed that Alec failed to learn from Meg and only made some progress as a blacksmith with Faulk as his mentor.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Meg’s parents are treated as lovable, charming comic relief characters, and they do provide a lot of laughs. However, watching Mrs. Langslow be passively snobby and Mr. Langslow constantly volunteering Meg’s house for difficult visitors and projects (and his sense of excitement about murders that he gets to investigate) can make them feel tiring at times.

** The previous book has Meg at an owl-themed scientific conference which goes OffTheRails and she muses if there will be an Owl Fest 2020...

** ''Lord of the Wings'' never does explain how and why [[spoiler:William Henry Harrison Brimfield, a wealthy heir and idealistic early WWI volunteer, became Billy Pratherton, the most ruthless bootlegger in Caerphilly County, or how or why he and/or his family faked his death in the war and kept the rest of the small town from recognizing him after his return as Pratherton.]]

** [[spoiler:Francine]] in ''[[spoiler:The Real Macaw]]'' is [[spoiler:ostracized by most of the town due to being a newcomer from up north and being the wife of a man working for the local {{Corrupt Politician}}s. She tries to be a good mother to her stepson and make friends, but, implicitly due to loneliness, cheats on her husband and then finds out that her lover is just using her to steal city files and may expose the affair, causing her to snap and kill him.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Meg’s parents are treated as lovable, charming comic relief characters, and they do provide a lot of laughs. However, watching Mrs. Langslow be passively snobby and Mr. Langslow constantly volunteering Meg’s house for difficult visitors and projects (and his sense of excitement about murders that he gets to investigate) can make them feel tiring at times.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Terns of Endearment'' was published in mid-2019, and involves several members of Meg's family on a truly disastrous cruise ship voyage - it turns out the major cause of this is an outbreak of horrific food poisoning among the crew (because the management were such penny-pinchers that it forced the crew to eat food past its expiry date that they couldn't serve passengers); the description of the small, cramped crew quarters stuffed to the gill with sick people borders on NightmareFuel. Less than a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to several cruise ships being revealed as either having the virus on board, careless passengers let off the ship without testing causing new outbreak clusters, or even cruise ship passengers being forced to stay on ships with resources getting low because countries won't allow them to dock due to the virus.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Terns of Endearment'' was published in mid-2019, and involves several members of Meg's family on a truly disastrous cruise ship voyage - it turns out the major cause of this is an outbreak of horrific food poisoning among the crew (because the management were such penny-pinchers that it forced the crew to eat food past its expiry date that they couldn't serve passengers); the description of the small, cramped crew quarters stuffed to the gill with sick people borders on NightmareFuel. Less than a year later, the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to several cruise ships being revealed as either having the virus on board, careless passengers let off the ship without testing causing new outbreak clusters, or even cruise ship passengers being forced to stay on ships with resources getting low because countries won't allow them to dock due to the virus.
* MST3KMantra: Some of the more outrageous scenarios in these books really tax WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, but it's a lot more fun if you just roll with them.