Death in the Stacks


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In the latest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Better Late Than Never, the library’s big fund-raiser leaves director Lindsey Norris booked for trouble.... Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library’s annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover’s dream—it’s the library’s biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the event a success. But when Olive publicly threatens the library’s newest hire, Paula, Lindsey cracks like an old book spine and throws Olive out of the library. The night of the fund-raiser, Lindsey dreads another altercation with Olive—but instead finds Paula crouched over Olive’s dead body. Paula may have secrets, but Lindsey and the rest of the crafternooners know she’s not the one who took Olive out of circulation. As the plot thickens, Lindsey must catch the real killer before the book closes on Paula’s future....




Death in the Stacks


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Death in the Stacks


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Hitting the Books


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It's murder by the book in the latest hit Library Lover's mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the Stacks. When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to the person who borrowed the books. Before Lindsey can delve into the library's records, the victim of the hit and run, Theresa Houston, suffers another "accident" and the investigation shifts from driver negligence to attempted homicide. A clue surfaces in the confiscated library materials that could crack open the case and it is up to Lindsey to piece it all together. But things are not as they seem in the sleepy town of Briar Creek, and when the driver of the stolen car turns up dead, Lindsey, her staff, and her library friends have to hit the books before the murderer gets the last word....




Murder in the Stacks


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Libraries are supposed to be quiet places for study and contemplation, particularly libraries such as the one at Kingsley, a small, Midwestern liberal arts college. It was only natural then that when the body of one of the professors is discovered amongst the stacks of the library it caused a certain amount of disturbance to the routine of the college. But when Dr. Allen, a professor of English, starts to suspect that the death was anything but accidental, it throws the institution into turmoil. Asked by the college president to quietly investigate the crime, Allen uncovers more than one secret amongst the groves of academe as he tries to solve the Murder in the Stacks.




Secrets in the Stacks


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Book shop owner Rarity Cole got a second chance at life, unfortunately not everyone is so lucky… after a body is found and an ominous Tarot reading spells disaster she must keep her friend safe from a killer—even if the cards are stacked against her in a mystery readers of Richard Osman and Ellery Adams will devour! Following her recovery from breast cancer, Rarity has embraced a life of healing and service in her Sedona, Arizona, community. She welcomes the opportunity to participate in the annual summer healing fair with her fittingly named new-age bookstore, The Next Chapter. The members of the Tuesday Night Survivors’ Book Club are also volunteering, maintaining a cooling station for overheated festivalgoers, and hosting a Tarot card reader for entertainment. But one member, Darby, is anything but entertained when the Tarot reader pulls a Death card. With a mammogram coming up, she’s freaked out and goes home—only to walk into a crime scene where someone near and dear to her has been murdered. Despite the objections of Detective Drew Anderson, Rarity is determined to help her friend and protect her from being the killer’s next victim . . .




Death in the Stacks


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The Rhiannon Nolan cozy mystery series is set in the mythological village of New Belgium, LaFollette County, Wisconsin, on the edge of Lake Michigan. Attorney and amateur sleuth Rhi Nolan and her best friend Didi Spencer are drawn into a series of adventures filled with laugh aloud humor, puzzling plots, and a satisfying number of suspects, twists, and red herrings. The latest book in the series is Death in the Stacks, a mystery set in the village library. It involves a Victorian era spinster ghost, a master jewel thief, some transplanted Chicago mobsters, a poisonous modern day Lucretia Borgia, and a whole village full of eccentric, endearing characters. And there is also one dead body found by Rhiannon and Didi in the "morgue" at the old Carnegie library, under the shelf of discarded books of true crime. Going undercover as a glitzy mob moll grandma, and then as a "yooper" who resembles Rhi's idea of Betty Crocker's northern Wisconsin mom, Rhi starts to uncover the truth. Once again, she overcomes one hilarious stumbling block after another, as well as some truly terrifying predicaments, to arrive at the inevitable truth, so that justice can be served and the village brought back to a state of peaceful equilibrium. The calendar is very early spring, a time of year we have not yet explored in the Rhiannon Nolan books. And as everyone knows, March can be surprising, deceptive, and mercurial, rather like Rhiannon herself! Visit Kathy Buchen at kathybuchenrhinolan.weebly.com.




Death Among the Stacks


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Why did an Inspector from the Government Printing Office get crushed between two rows of electronic compact shelving? In our murder/mystery, written as an homage to Agatha Christie, everyone seems to have a motive.




The Spook in the Stacks


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Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Now, it’s up to Lucy Richardson and her fellow librarians to bone up on their detective skills and discover who is responsible for this wicked Halloween homicide. Meanwhile, very strange things are happening at the library—haunted horses are materializing in the marsh, the lights seem to have an eerie life of their own, and the tiny crew of a model ship appears to move around when no one is watching. Is Lucy at her wit’s end? Or can it be that the Bodie Island Lighthouse really is haunted? With The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on everyone’s minds and ghoulish gossip on everyone’s lips, Lucy will need to separate the clues from the boos if she wants to crack this case without losing her head in The Spook in the Stacks, the delightful fourth in national bestseller Eva Gates’ Lighthouse Library mysteries.




Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library


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Why did an Inspector from the Government Printing Office get crushed between two rows of electronic compact shelving? This murder/mystery is an Agatha Christie-type whodunit with multiple suspects whom the book's detective assembles together in one room for "the big reveal" in its final pages. Death-by-compact-shelving may seem like a stretch, but it almost happened at a library where this book's author worked. You will never look at librarians and library shelving the same after reading it.