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Material type: TextSeries: McKinlay, Jenn. Library lover's mysteries ; 14Publisher: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2024Copyright date: 2024Description: 292 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593639337
- 0593639332
- 9798891640689
- MCKINLA 23/eng/20230717
- PS3612.A948 F38 2024
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Calispel Valley Library Adult Fiction | Calispel Valley Library | Book | MCKINLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Library Lover's Mystery 14 | Checked out | 06/05/2024 | 50610023051381 | |||
Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult New Book | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | MCKINLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 06/05/2024 | 50610023935641 | |||
Standard Loan | Metalines Community Library Large Print | Hayden Library | Book - Large Print | MCKINLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | In transit from Metalines Community Library to Hayden Library since 05/08/2024 | 50610024740867 | ||||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Fiction | Hayden Library | Book | MCKINLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/16/2024 | 50610024741675 | |||
Standard Loan | Rathdrum Library Adult Fiction | Rathdrum Library | Book | MCKINLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 05/17/2024 | 50610024741550 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum .
Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train , inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble.
But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse--the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully's room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn't commit.
Featuring a cameo by a beloved character from the New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile series!
Includes readers guide (pages 275-276).
Includes a TBR Jar craft instructions, recipes, and an excerpt from the author's Love at first look.
"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and Sully return the book to the conference director, not wanting to stir up any trouble. But just hours after the pair boards the train back to Connecticut, rumors that the Highsmith novel has gone missing buzz amongst the passengers, and they soon find the conference director murdered in his private compartment. And worse--the murderer planted the book in Lindsey and Sully's room next door, making them prime suspects. Now, they must uncover the murderer and bring them to the end of their line, before they find themselves booked for a crime they didn't commit"--
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Booklist Review
Librarian and former archivist Lindsey Norris and her husband Mike "Sully" Sullivan attend an archivist conference in Chicago where Lindsey finds a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock by Highsmith, under her seat at a program. She turns it over to the conference director who is later murdered on the train they are traveling on to return home. A major blizzard traps passengers in Briar Creek, Connecticut, Lindsey's hometown, where the chief of police puts them up at a local inn. When boat captain Sully disappears on his way to deliver supplies to the outlying islands, his boat found drifting in the bay, Lindsey is gutted. She explores suspects' motives and begins to believe Sully's disappearance may be connected to the murder. She works, along with her good friends, the "crafternooners," to uncover a killer and locate her husband, against the wishes of the chief of police. Details of archival work and librarianship, plot twists, small coastal town life, and the beautifully described blizzard define this cozy.Kirkus Book Review
A murder on a train carries echoes of another fateful railroad trip. Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Mike Sullivan, are in Chicago attending a conference. During a book restoration lecture on the last day, someone leaves a bag under Lindsey's seat containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train inscribed from the author to Alfred Hitchcock, making it potentially very valuable. Lindsey turns it over to conference head Henry Standish, a man with a checkered past that's earned him multiple enemies. Lindsey and Sully, along with Henry and many other conference participants, had taken a train from the East Coast to Chicago for the conference; now, as they settle into their roomette for the return trip, prospects for a pleasant ride turn sour when Lydia Armand--who took over Henry's job after he was accused of fraud--turns up. That night, after some nasty verbal jousts, Lindsey hears thumping noises from the next compartment and sees a person shrouded in black in the passageway. The next morning, Henry is found murdered in his compartment. Upon the arrival of a dangerous snowstorm, the police remove passengers to a local inn near Briar Creek, Connecticut, Lindsey and Sully's hometown, while they investigate. When the valuable book turns up in Lindsey's laptop bag, she takes it to the police, while Sully, a boat captain, heads out in the storm to deliver food to nearby islands. Much to her consternation, Lindsey is unable to contact Sully, and a search discovers his boat drifting offshore. Clues from the boat indicate that Sully may have been spirited away, and Lindsey resolves to search for him while she seeks a motive for Standish's murder. Plenty of hair-raising adventures combine with more cerebral pursuits in this enjoyable tale. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jenn McKinlay is the award-winning, New York Times , USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of several mystery and romance series. Her work has been translated into multiple languages in countries all over the world. She lives in sunny Arizona in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband's guitars.There are no comments on this title.