Gone Gull

New York: Minotaur Books / Thomas Dunne. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. White boards and spine with title and author in metallic turquoise on spine. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 295 pages. A Meg Langslow Mystery, No. 21. Gone Gull brings readers yet another knee-slapping adventure filled with New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews’ cast of wacky characters.Meg is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, threatening to ruin the newly-opened center’s reputation. Is it the work of a rival center? Have the developers who want to build a resort atop Biscuit Mountain found a new tactic to pressure Cordelia into selling? Or is the real target Meg’s grandfather, who points out that any number of environmentally irresponsible people and organizations could have it in for him?While Meg is trying to track down the vandal, her grandfather is more interested in locating a rare gull. Their missions collide when a body is found in one of the classrooms. Can Meg identify the vandal and the murderer in time to save the center’s name?while helping her grandfather track down and rescue his beloved gulls? .