Andrews soars into summer with a crafty new Meg Langslow mystery.

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?

It is summer and the whole family is at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center helping grandmother Cordelia get her new project off the ground. But only a few weeks into the summer the center is being plagued with acts of vandalism and then there is a murder.  Meg has to work fast to solve the murder and save the craft center.

Pretty much the whole Langslow clan is here. Grandmother Cordelia is the owner/operator of the center while Meg, Michael, Rose Noire and Meg’s grandfather are teaching classes. Then there is grandfather’s hunt for a gull long thought to be extinct but apparently living somewhere in the mountains nearby.  The action moves quickly and the murderer was not even remotely on my radar because their motive was a bit weak, at least for the second murder. But the enjoyment here is the Langslow clan more than the mystery itself. I am seriously enjoying my reread of the series.  Highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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